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TV Review: Sanctuary is a visceral show about sumo wrestling - where you care about the characters
TV Review: Sanctuary is a visceral show about sumo wrestling - where you care about the characters
There are a few timeshifts so you have to stay awake. I’m coming around to timeshifts now in TV shows — they keep you focused so you can’t look at your phone

Fri, 12 May, 2023

TV review: Ireland's Wild Islands is a rare gem
TV review: Ireland's Wild Islands is a rare gem
Eoin Warner has walked the walk — and he has a voice that puts him up there as Ireland's answer to David Attenborough

Tue, 25 Apr, 2023

TV review: The Good Mothers is an edge-of-seat-thriller with no tidy endings
TV review: The Good Mothers is an edge-of-seat-thriller with no tidy endings
This is drop-dead great television with high stakes for everyone. Italy is regal and seedy in the same shot and the acting is so good you could almost do without the subtitles

Fri, 21 Apr, 2023

TV review: Ireland's Smartest — this is a proper tricky quiz from the get-go
TV review: Ireland's Smartest — this is a proper tricky quiz from the get-go
But there's no money and no prestige in this quiz show

Tue, 11 Apr, 2023

TV review: Bono & the Edge get to Dublin's heart with Dave Letterman  
TV review: Bono & the Edge get to Dublin's heart with Dave Letterman  
"I think we’re ready to praise Bono as we should - there was no waffle here, just an explanation of how a gang of outsiders from the northside of Dublin decided to swim against the tide"

Fri, 07 Apr, 2023

TV review: Challenge Anneka — she doesn't do much sprinting but you know the dogs are going to get their new kennels
TV review: Challenge Anneka — she doesn't do much sprinting but you know the dogs are going to get their new kennels
TV for all the family, especially the dads, who got to watch Anneka sprinting out of a chopper in a tight yellow jumpsuit

Fri, 24 Mar, 2023

A Town Called Malice
TV review: A Town Called Malice could have been great - but why do I feel cheated?
It’s rammed full of songs from the 1980s, which feels like a desperate attempt to cover up for the rush job of the script and the plastic characters

Fri, 17 Mar, 2023

TV review: Chris Rock comments on royals and Will Smith in Selective Outrage
TV review: Chris Rock comments on royals and Will Smith in Selective Outrage
"Going on Oprah, saying ‘I had no idea how racist they were’. That’s the Royal family. You didn’t Google those motherf*****s? They’re the original racists. They invented colonialism"

Fri, 10 Mar, 2023

TV Review: Jamie Demetriou isn't afraid to take risks in A Whole Lifetime
TV Review: Jamie Demetriou isn't afraid to take risks in A Whole Lifetime
It’s a big jump for the 35-year-old Londoner. Where Stats Lets Flats operated within the framework of a traditional sitcom — albeit with an emphasis on slapstick and surreal comedy — this new production is far less orthodox.

Fri, 03 Mar, 2023

TV Review: Better is a new thriller about a corrupt detective
TV Review: Better is a new thriller about a corrupt detective
It's slick but needs to get better quickly 

Fri, 17 Feb, 2023

TV review: The Girls at the Back feels real and is good for the soul
TV review: The Girls at the Back feels real and is good for the soul
Each of the characters wrote down the one thing they’d like to do before they die, and all of them must do these things during the holiday... the first of these is to have a lesbian experience, which they all managed on their first night

Fri, 10 Feb, 2023

TV review: Fauda has oodles of blackmail and deception and it's back for season four
TV review: Fauda has oodles of blackmail and deception and it's back for season four
And if there is a message in among the chaos, it’s that non-stop conflict is really just non-stop misery for everyone involved

Fri, 27 Jan, 2023

The Last of Us
TV review: The Last of Us has post-apocalyptic drama but doesn't really work as a TV show
We’re told The Last of Us is supposed to be a sprawling epic, but it feels like a pedestrian piece of Monday night TV — the dialogue could have been taken from Law & Order off-cuts

Mon, 16 Jan, 2023

TV review: Tonnes of heart in The Bear and The Lying Life of Adults is absolutely brilliant
TV review: Tonnes of heart in The Bear and The Lying Life of Adults is absolutely brilliant
The only downside with The Lying Life of Adults is that they are making period pieces about the 1990s now, and that makes me feel really old

Fri, 13 Jan, 2023

TV picks for 2023: The Last Of Us, a Bridgerton prequel and the 'last' season of The Crown
TV picks for 2023: The Last Of Us, a Bridgerton prequel and the 'last' season of The Crown
A few of the big shows to look out for on the telly this year 

Fri, 06 Jan, 2023

First Dates recap: Banter, shots and heartbreaking back stories in stellar first episode back
First Dates recap: Banter, shots and heartbreaking back stories in stellar first episode back
The opening episode of First Dates Ireland gave us everything we were looking for - apart from a yes to romance from one pairing 

Thu, 05 Jan, 2023

White Lotus to North Sea Connection: Four of the best TV shows of 2022
White Lotus to North Sea Connection: Four of the best TV shows of 2022
I think comedy thrillers might be my new thing

Fri, 30 Dec, 2022

TV Review: Christmas Carole is an imperfect but worthy take on Dickens
TV Review: Christmas Carole is an imperfect but worthy take on Dickens
"There’s a nice message and hugs and Mariah Carey - if nothing else you could put it on in the background while you wrap the presents."

Fri, 23 Dec, 2022

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Pat Fitzpatrick: Motherland, Happy Valley... here’s what I’ll be watching this Christmas
Mrs Brown’s Boys is basically a joke in a Christmas cracker. Any other time of the year, you’d make a face. But here you are, in a scorching hot front room with a bunch of people who get on your nerves after a big feed. Finding something familiar to put a smile on everyone’s face is the only way to go. 

Fri, 16 Dec, 2022

TV review: Babylon Berlin reminds me of Peaky Blinders but I wasn't instantly hooked
TV review: Babylon Berlin reminds me of Peaky Blinders but I wasn't instantly hooked
There is something missing and I think it might be Cillian Murphy

Fri, 25 Nov, 2022

TV review: The Crown is patchy this time out. And it’s starting to feel tired
TV review: The Crown is patchy this time out. And it’s starting to feel tired
Elizabeth Debicki impersonates Diana, rather than interprets her, but I reckon it works

Wed, 09 Nov, 2022

TV review: Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet Of Curiosities has death and an octopus thing but is it scary?
TV review: Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet Of Curiosities has death and an octopus thing but is it scary?
25 minutes into a 45-minute show, and I haven’t been scared once...

Fri, 28 Oct, 2022

Keys To My Life review: Blend of joy and sadness in Luke O'Neill's life
Keys To My Life review: Blend of joy and sadness in Luke O'Neill's life
In Luke O'Neill's appearance on Keys To My Life, we saw how a positive, resilient life is the backdrop to grief, busking, politics and fatherhood

Sun, 23 Oct, 2022

TV review: The Rehearsal lampoons reality TV and is surprisingly brilliant
TV review: The Rehearsal lampoons reality TV and is surprisingly brilliant
This show lampoons reality TV and, while it's no Curb Your Enthusiasm, it is a treat

Mon, 03 Oct, 2022

This England
TV review: What does Carrie see in Boris Johnson? The answer isn't obvious in This England
Boris is played, brilliantly, by Kenneth Branagh — his forced jollity every time he comes into contact with someone outside Boris’s inner circle is touchingly sad. He got the big job, but it didn’t make him happy

Wed, 28 Sep, 2022

Keys to My Life review: Ronnie Whelan's tales of Finglas and Liverpool 
Keys to My Life review: Ronnie Whelan's tales of Finglas and Liverpool 
Whelan reveals how Liverpool had a  gynaecologist who'd induce their pregnant wives if their due date might interfere with a game

Mon, 26 Sep, 2022

TV review: Heartbreak High is a bit knowing and performative — it doesn’t feel real
TV review: Heartbreak High is a bit knowing and performative — it doesn’t feel real
Heartbreak High is not perfect, but if you’re finding it tricky to talk to your teenager, watching this show might just help

Thu, 22 Sep, 2022

How Long Will You Live review: Cork doc provides proper advice to improve your life 
How Long Will You Live review: Cork doc provides proper advice to improve your life 
Cork doctor Phil Kieran kicks off the new series of How Long Will You Live by showing a Waterford woman that her life expectancy could be extended beyond what she had expected 

Tue, 20 Sep, 2022

TV review: The Princess — No wonder Diana barely smiled during her wedding
TV review: The Princess — No wonder Diana barely smiled during her wedding
Hounded by TV crews... right before her wedding she found a bracelet Charles was planning to give Camilla... the commander of the horse escort on their wedding day is a Lt. Col Andrew Parker-Bowles — no wonder she barely smiled once during the wedding

Fri, 19 Aug, 2022

TV review: Luminous cast, inviting story, and shot in Ireland — why does Bad Sisters fall flat?
TV review: Luminous cast, inviting story, and shot in Ireland — why does Bad Sisters fall flat?
Anne-Marie Duff, Cork actress Sarah Greene, Eve Hewson and Brian Gleeson are all in it but it just doesn't work for me

Fri, 19 Aug, 2022

TV Review: The Control Room is the perfect three-part telly snack for summer 
TV Review: The Control Room is the perfect three-part telly snack for summer 
The BBC one show is a neat, punchy thriller with decent characters and a couple of gotcha twists

Fri, 22 Jul, 2022

TV review: GUTF spoof morning show is fully-formed and fabulous
TV review: GUTF spoof morning show is fully-formed and fabulous
It's got Killian Sundermann, Emma Doran, Michael Fry, Justine Stafford and more on this show where every bit is a treat

Thu, 16 Jun, 2022

The Gilded Age
TV review: The striving and the snobbery is off the scale in The Gilded Age
You can see they’ve put plenty money into The Gilded Age. But judging by these dreary people on 5th Avenue, money isn’t everythinr

Fri, 28 Jan, 2022

American Rust
TV review: American Rust might be the best thing on television this week
Flashbacks always look like an after-thought — as if someone says ‘what happened there?’ in a focus group, and now we all have to go back in time

Fri, 03 Dec, 2021

'Like watching Casablanca in colour' - Pat Fitzpatrick's look back at this week's TV
'Like watching Casablanca in colour' - Pat Fitzpatrick's look back at this week's TV
This week Pat share his thoughts on Sky Atlantic's Little Birds, which is set in the 1940s

Sun, 16 Aug, 2020

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