Telly and Streaming Highlights: Conan O'Brien has finally 'made it' — with a cameo on Ros na Rún
Tadhg & Conan O'Brien on Ros na Rún
Fifty years ago at Brighton Dome, Swedish group Abba won the Eurovision Song Contest with ‘Waterloo’ — and cemented their place as legends of popular music. This documentary uses archive footage to tell the story of Abba and Sweden’s impact on the musical landscape.
Women’s Six Nations Rugby: Ireland v Scotland at Kingspan Stadium, Belfast (kick-off, 2.30pm, RTÉ2)
URC Live Rugby: Vodacom Bulls v Ospreys (ko 2pm, TG4); Emirates Lions v Munster, (ko 4pm, TG4); Stormers v Leinster (ko 6.05pm, TG4); Dragons v Connacht (ko 8pm, RTÉ2).
From the meticulous art of restoration to the thrill of new archaeological finds, this is a celebration of Ireland’s cultural heritage.
At Cork Public Museum, curator Dan Breen unveils John Hoyton Rutter’s photo album — a hidden treasure offering an intimate glimpse of early 1900s Cork.
The tension-filled drama continues. The unfortunate Nolan is on the flight from hell — an unsettling incident takes place, and he now begins to fear he’s being framed and desperately begs for the plane to be diverted.
Meanwhile, MI5’s interest is piqued, and while searching for more information, the agency’s director, Delaney, gives Hana a call, leaving the detective stunned.
(Last in series) Father and son Breanndán and Cormac Ó Beaglaoich travel from Leitrim into Cavan and Fermanagh.
GAA: Galway v Kilkenny at Salthill (throw-in 2pm); followed by Limerick v Tipperary at the Gaelic Grounds (throw-in 4pm), both RTÉ2.
Rugby: AIL Men’s and Women’s finals live from the Aviva Stadium (ko 1.45pm and 4pm, TG4).
Highlights from Fresh International Film Festival’s 2024 Ireland’s Young Filmmaker of the Year Awards (IYFTYs) in collaboration.
This year’s event is broadcast from Troy Studios in Limerick. Film highlights from the IYFTYs shortlist include by Nora Twomey, Cork.
The actor concludes his island-hopping journey in Micronesia, a remote region of the Pacific east of the Philippines.
His first stop is Guam, where he sees how the ko’ko, a flightless bird driven to the edge of extinction by the brown tree snake, is being re-introduced back into the wild.
On the tiny island state of Palau, Martin also hears about attempts to halt the decline in hawksbill turtle numbers.
Reconstructions, CCTV footage, and live studio appeals for information from you, to help with Garda investigations.
GAA: Leinster final U20 Football Championship (throw-in 7.20pm, TG4).
In episode two, Dijana Kalic originally from Croatia, designs a garden for Michael and his two sons Joshua and Daniel.
Michael lost his wife Breda 5 years ago; he would like to have a space where he can remember her in the garden as well as it being a space for entertaining family and friends.
His son Daniel is a fan of Japanese style and would like to see elements of that incorporated in the garden.
There’s a strange delivery man in Ros na Rún this week. He has a delivery for Vince and arrives into Tigh Thaidhg looking for Tadhg to take it and cough up some money.
Will Tadhg show the door to former Simpsons writer, comedian, and the king of US chat-show television, HBO’s Conan O’Brien?
Every day, millions of women live in fear of the men stalking them.
Whether hiding in fortified homes or putting on disguises when venturing outside, this shocking ‘Exposure’ documentary follows threatened women who are taking on the criminal justice system to hold their stalkers to account.
With intimate access to victims and the family of Gracie Spinks, who was murdered by a work colleague in 2021 after police officers in Britain failed to take action against someone they could have known was a serial stalker, the film reveals how women feel abandoned by the system.
Champions League: semi-final, 1st leg clash of Bayern Munich v Real Madrid (ko 8pm, RTÉ2).
The absorbing series starring Ben Miller as a genius Cambridge University criminologist with OCD, an overbearing mother, and a knack for helping the police solve crimes draws to a close.
(New series) On February 13, 1997, Ciara Breen disappeared from her home in Bachelor’s Walk, Dundalk. She was never seen again.
A local man was later named as the main suspect in her disappearance. For more than 20 years Ciara’s mother, Bernadette, lived with the uncertainty of her only child’s fate, before passing away without answers.
GAA: U20 Football Championship — Munster final (throw-in 7.30pm, TG4).
Ger and Josephine Nihill live in the rural heartland of Tulla, County Clare, with their grown-up son Johnny and daughter Bridget in the house where they raised six kids.
But, despite the space freed up since four of the children moved out, the house is less functional as a family home than it ever was.
Born of desperation, a caravan of migrants left Honduras in October 2018 with the goal of walking to the US border with Mexico.
Donald Trump repudiated these migrants as they travelled north through Central America, inflating the threat they posed to the United States declaring they were drug dealers, criminals, and Islamic terrorists.
We follow Yuri, eight months pregnant, as she walks from her home in Honduras towards the US border with her husband Mike and two-year-old son Santi.
We’re returning to Aberdeen for a second run of the crime drama. Romario Simpson and Hannah Donaldson reprise their roles as odd couple police detectives Davis Lindo and Lara ‘Bart’ Bartlett.
An elderly dog with bad teeth and matted hair is transformed by the shelter team. A cat with a bad fracture is nursed to health and finds a great new home.
GAA: U20 Football Championship — Ulster final (throw-in 7.30pm, TG4)
Fans of CJ Sansom’s superb novels have been crying out for a TV adaptation. Hopefully this lives up to expectations.
Set in Tudor England, they follow cases investigated by hunchbacked solicitor Matthew Shardlake (Arthur Hughes, right). This is a four-part take on , the first book in the series, which takes place in 1537 during the dissolution of the monasteries.
The lawyer is employed by Thomas Cromwell (Sean Bean), Henry VIII’s right-hand man, to investigate the murder of one of his commissioners at a monastery on England’s south coast. Peter Firth, Ruby Ashbourne Serkis, and Babou Ceesay also star.
Jeff Daniels has enjoyed a long and varied career, from lowbrow comedies such as , to highbrow TV work, including Aaron Sorkin’s .
Most recently he’s been on the small screen in . Now he’s back with a series based on Tom Wolfe’s novel A Man in Full. Charlie Croker (Daniels) is an Arizona real estate mogul whose once successful business is facing bankruptcy.
Charlie desperately attempts to protect everything he’s worked for as the vultures circle… Diane Lane, Lucy Liu, Aml Ameen, and Bill Camp co-star.
