TV review: A middle-of-the-road travel show wrapped in property porn — and it works

Kevin McGahern is a telly natural, proper funny, but he’s wasted here with the geography teacher chores.

Michelle and Wayne in Cheap European Homes: This is Ireland’s answer to A Place in the Sun

There are two good shows hidden in Cheap European Homes (RTÉ Player). It can feel like they are getting in each other’s way. It’s been out for a while, on its second season. This is Ireland’s answer to A Place in the Sun, where British people visit a remote Spanish village on holidays and decide to go and live there.

It works because at some point in our lives, we’ve all decided happiness is a seaside village that’s stone dead for nine months of the year. It’s a middle-of-the-road travel show wrapped in property porn, and it works.