Simon Reeve’s new BBC series has him staying closer to home than his usual locations, says Keeley Bolger

Some Easter Sunday shows for your viewing pleasure.

Anton Savage and Sheana Keane present new adult literacy series, Get the Numbers Write, on TV3 on Monday.

A dude’s dog gets dead. Dude does revenge. Big style.

SUNDAY

Love Hate returns: Check out our spoiler-free guide to what to watch on TV tonight.

Manchester United suffered one of the most humiliating defeats in their long and proud history as MK Dons piled yet more misery on Louis van Gaal.

Stop the presses! Hold the phones! Here comes a newsflash: golf really isn’t the centre of the universe.

Keith Barry hacks your brain and Grey’s Anatomy returns.

Highlights include the finales of Homeland and Mad Men, and the new dating show My Best Shot

Highlights include Who’s Buying Ireland? and a discussion of pre-nups on Ear To The Ground

Muskerry’s Niall Gorey got out of jail with a dramatic semi-final comeback against Reeve Whitson, but had no answer to a brilliant Rory McNamara in the final of the Radisson Blu-sponsored West of Ireland Amateur Open at Rosses Point.

Detectives have stressed a “live murder inquiry” will continue after a man wanted for murdering a police officer was found dead in a churchyard.

A man wanted for murder after a police officer was killed has been found dead in a churchyard, police in Britain said.

Police in Britain hunting for a man suspected of killing an off-duty officer were searching a village green today amid reports that a body has been found.

Armed police in Britain are hunting for a man suspected of killing an off-duty policeman who was gunned down after intervening in a dispute near his home.

Des O'Driscoll casts his eye on this week's best television

Kevin Costner is being lined up for a role in 'Superman: Man of Steel'.

A British father on a road-trip through the United States was shot dead after stopping in Amarillo because he loved the cult song, relatives revealed tonight.

A British man was shot dead when a gunman opened fire after walking into a bar in the United States, it was disclosed today.

A new law named after Superman actor Christopher Reeve will co-ordinate research on paralysis and rehabilitation.

President Barack Obama today overturned a ban on federal funding for stem cell research, reversing the policy of his predecessor.

I WISH to rebut the accusation of inaccuracy levelled at me by Alan Murphy-Reeve whose argument is with the EU presidency, not with me (Letters, February 26).

JOE NOONAN (Letters, February 18) referred to “the leak in Slovenia” which shows Ireland’s neutrality is undermined by Article 28A.7 of the Lisbon treaty. He is incorrect. The first sentence of the article does refer explicitly to the obligation of mutual defence, but it must not be read in isolation to that which immediately follows: “This shall not prejudice the specific character of the security and defence policy of certain member states.”

Late Superman star Christopher Reeve's children have pledged to continue their father's search for a cure to paralysis.

DANA Reeve, who won worldwide admiration for her devotion to Superman husband, Christopher Reeve, through a decade of near-total paralysis, has died of lung cancer.

Actress Dana Reeve, who fought for better treatments and possible cures for paralysis through the Christopher Reeve Foundation, named for her late actor-husband, has died.

Detectives in England were today questioning a man on suspicion of handling stolen goods after up to £7m (€10.2m) from Britain’s biggest robbery was found hidden on an industrial estate.

A convicted sex offender was allowed to work as a teacher in several schools in England, it emerged today.

DANA REEVE, who spent nine years caring for her paralysed husband, Christopher Reeve, until his death last year, announced yesterday that she has lung cancer.

Dana Reeve, who spent nine years caring for her paralysed husband, Christopher Reeve, until his death last year, announced today that she has lung cancer.

Christopher Reeve's widow Dana has come up with a novel way of paying tribute to her late husband - launching a new range of Superman dog tags.

The widow of Christopher Reeve has spoken for the first time about the Superman star’s final hours.

THIS has been the year of the self-destructing hero.

Funnyman Robin Williams has become the 'guardian angel' to the grieving family of his best pal - Superman star Christopher Reeve.

Even in death, Superman star Christopher Reeve is promoting human embryonic stem cell research.

Christopher Reeve spent his final evening cheering on presidential hopeful John Kerry, his beloved baseball team the New York Yankees and eating his favourite meal.

The family of Christopher Reeve will hold a private memorial service for the Superman star this month.

Christopher Reeve's widow Dana plans to scatter the late actor's ashes in the wind following his cremation earlier this week.

Presidential hopeful John Kerry today said he would reverse George Bush’s restrictions on embryonic stem cell research in the US as he remembered the late actor Christopher Reeve, a quadriplegic, as a hero and a friend.

The body of Superman star Christopher Reeve has been cremated during a private service, it was reported today.

Vice-presidential hopeful John Edwards has sparked a row by claiming that under a John Kerry administration “people like Christopher Reeve will get up out of that wheelchair and walk again”.

Tributes for Superman actor Christopher Reeve have come flooding in from family and friends.

THE bitter irony of Superman living a life confined to a wheelchair was not lost on Christopher Reeve.