Telly and Streaming Highlights: Man Up? finds out what it takes to be a man today

Plus: Prime Time investigates abortion in Ireland; TG4 documentary looks at the lives of Irish carers; plus the week's live sports and new streaming shows
Telly and Streaming Highlights: Man Up? finds out what it takes to be a man today

Colin Judge and Jordan Conroy in Man UP? on RTÉ

Saturday 

Our Dream Farm with Matt Baker

Channel 4, 8pm 

Seven would-be farming families compete to win the tenancy of a property in the Northest of England.

Kurt Cobain: Moments That Shook Music

BBC Two, 9.25pm 

Marking the 30th anniversary of Kurt Cobain’s death, this documentary uses powerful and unseen archive footage to demystify the tragic moment when the Nirvana frontman took his own life.

Sunday 

Sunday Game Live

RTÉ2, 12.15pm 

Joanne Cantwell is joined by Anna Geary and Ursula Jacob for the Division 1A & 2A Camogie League Finals from Croke Park while Ciaran Whelan will be alongside Joanne for a Leinster Senior Football Championship game.

Raised By The Village

RTÉ One, 6.30pm 

Will teens Cian and Eireann learn to behave better when they’re part of a tight-knit community where the local adults keep a very close eye on what they get up to in Roscommon?

Keys To My Life

RTÉ One, 7.30pm 

Liverpool and Ireland striker John Aldridge shares his ascent from Liverpool childhood to soccer superstardom, unearthing fascinating family secrets along the way.

Aoife Hegarty investigates the realities of Ireland's current abortion services in RTÉ Investigates: Ireland’s Abortion Services
Aoife Hegarty investigates the realities of Ireland's current abortion services in RTÉ Investigates: Ireland’s Abortion Services

Monday 

Man Up?

RTÉ2, 5.30pm 

Jordan Conroy hangs out with 10 boys from different backgrounds and with different interests and attempts to help them discover what makes a man in a modern world.

Pass It On: Sacar na mBan

RTÉ One, 8pm 

We follow the journeys of three soccer clubs competing in the top tier of women’s soccer in Ireland throughout the 2023 season. This 4-part series, narrated by Peter Coonan, reveals all the drama on and off the pitch, the rollercoaster ride that is a season in the LOI Women’s Premier Division.

RTÉ Investigates: Ireland’s Abortion Services

RTÉ One, 9.35pm 

The broadcaster investigates the realities of Ireland's current abortion services and gaps in the system of care which continue to cause heartache for affected women.

Tuesday 

The End of the World With Beanz

RTÉ One, 7pm 

In the final episode of the series, Martin and Julie Jay opt for a bit of a staycation as they try their hands at working on an organic farm in Carlow.

Cúramóirí

TG4, 7.30pm 

A series that delves into the heart of daily Irish life illustrating the crucial work and life-saving care provided by family carers, professional carers, and dedicated organizations to those who need it the most to reveal the profound and positive impact carers have on the lives of those they support. In the third episode, a Donegal community come together to fundraise for Oisín, aged 8 who has a rare life limiting chromosomal condition.

Interior Design Masters with Alan Carr 

BBC One, 8pm 

The designers pair up and hit East Grinstead high street to transform two Grade II listed shops. They need to transform the spaces to impress Mary Queen of Shops.

Alfie and Owen in Race Across The World on BBC One
Alfie and Owen in Race Across The World on BBC One

Wednesday 

Race Across The World

BBC One, 9pm 

Reality show in which members of the public compete to cross the world. The race to Lombok is well underway and less than five hours separate the teams. Leaving Nara City, they must cross their first border into South Korea to reach the second checkpoint in Sokcho.

Téacs Taistil

TG4, 9.30pm 

In the final episode travel show Téacs Taistil, our three buddies head to Stockholm in Sweden - one of the cleanest cities in the world. The city is made up of 14 islands connected by some 50 bridges, and home of The Nobel Prize, Greta Thunberg, and ABBA.

Fargo

TG4, 10.30pm 

Quirky thriller continues. Lorraine has had enough of the nonsense. She uses her powerful political and financial connections to pin down Dot, for now, and even decides to open a new business venture.

Thursday 

The Complaints Bureau

RTÉ One, 7pm 

Amy meets a young Cavan teacher recovering from serious illness who wants to see car parking charges at hospitals abolished for cancer patients.

Contractors

TG4, 9.30pm 

It's full steam ahead and all hands on board with first cut silage in Cork with Alan Ross while up in Donegal the good weather has landed too and it's a family affair with the girls joining Traolach baling.

Home Rescue: The Big Fix

RTÉ2, 9.35pm 

Near to the train station in Kildare town, Gaeilgeoir and primary school teacher Shónagh struggles with the rising tide of clutter at the railway cottage she shares with her four young children.

Friday

Tracks and Trails 

RTÉ One, 7.30pm 

Historian and broadcaster, Professor Diarmaid Ferriter travels to Ulster to complete two trails on either side of the border, one in the Sperrin mountain range in Co. Tyrone and the other along The Monaghan Way.

Rugbaí Beo

TG4, 7.30pm

All the best action from the United Rugby Championship. In tonight's live coverage from Kingspan, Ulster and Cardiff go head to head in Round 14 of the championship.

League Of Ireland Live

RTÉ2, 7.35pm 

Peter Collins presents live coverage of Derry City v Shamrock FC from the Ryan McBride Brandywell Stadium. KO 7.45pm 

Streaming

Feud: Capote v The Swans

Disney +, Wednesday

The second instalment in Ryan Murphy’s FEUD anthology, this eight-episode limited series is based on the real-life story of how author Truman Capote fell out with some of New York’s most influential socialites. Starring Tom Hollander, Naomi Watts, Diane Lane, Molly Ringwald and Demi Moore.

Our Living World

Netflix, Wednesday 

Cate Blanchett does her best David Attenborough impersonation in this four-part docuseries which travels from Angola to New Zealand and dozens of countries in between, to depict the wondrous tapestry of creatures and ecosystems that sustain Earth’s existence.

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