Telly and Streaming Highlights: RTÉ delves into the Irish beauty industry and illegal botox

Telly and Streaming Highlights: RTÉ delves into the Irish beauty industry and illegal botox

Reporter Pamela Fraher goes undercover examining regulation of the Irish beauty industry in RTÉ Investigates: Botox & Beauty

SATURDAY

Saturday GAA Live
RTÉ2, 4.30pm

Joanne Cantwell presents live coverage from Celtic Park, Derry, of Derry v Dublin (throw-in 5pm).

The Brit Awards
ITV, 8.30pm

Clara Amfo, Maya Jama, and Roman Kemp host the annual celebration of pop music in the UK and further afield. Kylie Minogue will be in the house, receiving the Global Icon gong.

SUNDAY

Dancing With The Stars
RTÉ One, 6.30pm

A sixth elimination looms as the annual hoof-fest approaches crunch time.

Blackshore
RTÉ One, 9.30pm

The Blackwater Whiskey Festival has arrived, and it appears that the Róisín Hurley case has been solved. However, Fia knows there is more to this story.

Ceol ón Earagail
TG4, 9.30pm

The amazing singer-songwriter Lisa O’Neill features in this week’s programme from the Grianán stage in Letterkenny from the Earagail Arts Festival. In Dinny’s, or the Glen Tavern, Cathal Ó Curráin meets Dermy & Tara Diamond on fiddle and flute.

Michael Sheen’s dystopian drama The Way continues
Michael Sheen’s dystopian drama The Way continues

MONDAY

Celebrity Big Brother Live Launch
Virgin Media Two 9pm

While the celebs have yet to be unveiled, Louis Walsh is rumoured to be in the line-up as the entertaining/horrifying reality TV institution returns.

The Way
BBC One, 9pm

Michael Sheen’s dystopian drama continues with the Driscoll family fleeing upheaval in Wales to find temporary sanctuary near London.

RTÉ Investigates: Botox and Beauty At Any Cost
RTÉ One, 9.35pm

Reporter Pamela Fraher goes undercover examining regulation of the Irish beauty industry, with illegal Botox and the sale of prescription medicine widely available.

TUESDAY

Meitheal Mara Chorca Dhuibhne
TG4, 7.30pm

The Dingle peninsula has always had a strong reputation for its fishing culture. In this series, we meet the fishing community of the peninsula as they carry out their work over the fishing season, from March to October. In the first programme we meet Éamonn Ó Corcara during the last day of the oyster fishing season.

Champions League Live
RTÉ2, 7.30pm

Darragh Maloney presents coverage of the UEFA Champions League featuring Bayern v Lazio (kick off: 8pm).

Home Of The Year
RTÉ One, 8.30pm

A 1930s renovated bungalow in Dublin, a historic Georgian Rectory in County Derry, and a self-build in County Cork feature in episode three of Home of the Year.

Téacs Taistil visits the ancient city of Athens. Picture: AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris, File
Téacs Taistil visits the ancient city of Athens. Picture: AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris, File

WEDNESDAY

Home Grown
RTÉ One, 8.30pm

Kitty Scully meets mushroom producers Joe and Dolores Gorman in Offaly before heading to Schram Plants in Kildare. Colm O’Driscoll visits Keoghs Potato Farm in North Dublin and Kylemore Abbey in Connemara.

Téacs Taistil
TG4, 9.30pm

The fast-paced travel show returns. Our trio reunites for an exciting and adventurous trip to the ancient city of Athens, the capital of Greece — one of the world’s oldest cities, with its recorded history spanning over 3,400 years. Louise almost loses a finger as she learns the noble craft of shoemaking, and Proinsias makes an attempt to keep up with the cool kids on his skateboard while Séaghan oversleeps and almost misses out on his task. All three get a lesson in street art from renowned Greek artist Cacao Rocks.

Big Life Fix
RTÉ One, 9.35pm

Episode two sees inventor Trevor Vaugh assemble a team to help Theresa O’Rourke who has lived with chronic pain for over 40 years. Will they be able to come up with a fix to help Theresa and distract her from her pain?

THURSDAY

The Apprentice
BBC One, 9pm

The teams are tasking with a new breakfast cereal as the unkillable board-room show lumbers ever onwards.

Laochra Gael
TG4, 9.30pm

Between 1999 and 2005, Ciara Gaynor was a cornerstone of Tipperary’s formidable defensive unit, one of the best camogie teams of all time.
A five-time All-Ireland medal holder, Ciara and her team inspired a generation of young Tipperary girls to follow their dreams. The years of her youth, led by her father Len, stood with Ciara and at 19 years old she already had her first All-Ireland senior medal.

First Dates Ireland
RTÉ2 , 9.35pm

Having written a song for every breakup he’s had, Daniel, 31, from Mexico identifies with Adele but will he be rolling in the deep with old-school romantic Leon, 31, from Dublin?

This week we look back at the best of the latest season of The Graham Norton Show. Picture: Matt Crossick/PA Wire
This week we look back at the best of the latest season of The Graham Norton Show. Picture: Matt Crossick/PA Wire

FRIDAY

Six Nations, Under 20s Live
RTÉ2, 7pm

Daire O’Brien presents live coverage from The Recreation Ground, Bath, of England v Ireland (kick off 7.15pm).

Glór Tíre — Súil Siar
TG4, 9pm

The fifth in a series of six special programmes featuring some of the very best country music performances through the years of Glór Tíre.
In this fifth programme, Country star and Glór Tíre regular Johnny Brady takes to the stage as we take a look at some of his best performances through the years on the stage of the Quays Live in the Glór Tíre Series.

The Graham Norton Show
BBC One, 10.40pm

A look back at some of the best interviews from the 31st season of the Corkman’s popular chat-show, featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Julia Roberts, Tom Hanks, Judi Dench, Ncuti Gatwa, Kylie Minogue, and Timothée Chalamet.

STREAMING

Theo James as Eddie Horniman in The Gentlemen. Picture: Christopher Rafael/Netflix 
Theo James as Eddie Horniman in The Gentlemen. Picture: Christopher Rafael/Netflix 

Extraordinary

Disney +, Wednesday

Ballinhassig actress Máiréad Tyers is back for series two of this irreverent sitcom about an Irish woman in an alternative London who struggles with her lack of superpowers. Aherla native and Derry Girls star Siobhán McSweeney also features.

The Gentlemen
Netflix, Thursday

You probably don’t remember the 2019 Guy Ritchie gangster movie of the same name — but that hasn’t stopped Netflix from rebooting it. Stars Theo James as Eddie Horniman who unexpectedly inherits his father’s sizeable country estate — only to discover it’s part of a cannabis empire.

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