10 TV & streaming highlights for November: Bad Sisters, Dune, Kneecap, and more
Bad Sisters, Dune: Prophesy, and Christy Brown are among our TV highlights for November
The Dublin writer came to the attention of the world through the My Left Foot film in 1989, but seems to have slipped from the public consciousness in recent decades. Aiden Gillen narrates a documentary on the painter/writer who suffered with cerebral palsy. Saoirse Ronan reads some of Brown’s poetry, and other contributors include Jim Sheridan and John Banville.
The upcoming fight between 58-year-old Mike Tyson and YouTube star Jake Paul is a vulgar affair, but will still be irresistible for many of us. This three-part series goes behind the scenes with the two men, and also gets in a bit of the preparations for Katie Taylor v Amanda Serrano, on the same bill in Texas. Netflix will also be showing the fight itself on Nov 15.
Three-part mini-series that goes behind the scenes at the female prison at Mountjoy, Dublin. It has many of the features of a prison, but has quite a different atmosphere to the equivalent men’s facility. Babies are allowed to stay with their mothers in the jail up to the age of 12 months.
If we’re all still here in 2050 and haven’t been flooded, overheated or nuked, then our towns will obviously be very different places compared to today. This three-part series takes Athlone as a test case to show the technology and planning that could be in play in 25 years. Neural implants and new building technologies are among the topics mentioned.
Sharon Horgan and her impressive ensemble unleash a second season of the Dublin-based adventures of the Garvey sisters. We see how the siblings are getting on with their lives, but the dark secret from their past threatens to come to the fore again. Cast additions for this run include Cork actress Fiona Shaw. First two episodes available on Nov 13, followed by one episode weekly, every Wednesday.
Nine-part drama series adapted from the factual book by American author Patrick Radden Keefe about the Troubles. It opens with the story of Jean McConville, the mother of 10 dragged from her flat in front of her screaming children by the IRA in 1972, and never seen again. From there, it looks at the lives of various IRA members over the following 40 years, with cast members including Lola Petticrew as Dolours Price and Hazel Doupe as Marian Price.
Don’t believe the hype. You might have heard this film was a tale of sex, drugs and Brit-bashing raps – all of that is actually a cover for the greatest advert for the Irish language ever created. Either way, Rich Peppiatt’s partly-true film is a hugely enjoyable take on the rise of the Belfast trio.
The Dune universe expands into a six-part series largely based around the origins of the Bene Gesserit sisterhood. Set around 10,000 years before the ascension of Paul Atreides, we follow the two Hakonnen sisters (played by Emily Watson and Olivia Williams) as they battle a threat to humankind.
A film about the birth of of Louise Joy Brown in 1978, the world’s first ‘test-tube baby’. The amazing story told from the perspective of Jean Purdy, a young nurse and embryologist who worked with scientist Robert Edwards and surgeon Patrick Steptoe to pioneer the process of in vitro fertilisation (IVF).
There’s been quite a Beatles revival in recent years, not least with Peter Jackson’s docuseries on the band’s final recordings. This new documentary film winds the clock back a few years to the Fab Four’s arrival in America in February 1964, and the explosion of Beatle-mania famously captured on The Ed Sullivan Show. Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr contribute new interviews to go with the archive footage, and both are also listed as producers alongside Martin Scorsese.
