Pick of the week Other Voices Thursday, RTÉ2, 11pm Ireland’s best live music show is back for its 24th series, with another array of amazing acts from both at home and abroad, performing at venues in Dingle, Co Kerry and west Wales. Once again, the show is hosted by BBC broadcasters Annie Mac and Huw … Read more
RTÉ hasn’t had much in the way of good news stories recently, so it’s hard to begrudge the national broadcaster as reports emerge of a deal to secure the future of its ratings-winning gangland drama Kin. After two well-received seasons, the show ended on a cliffhanger in 2023 – but the real twist was to … Read more
There is bad television that thinks it is good and there is bad television that knows it is bad, and this adaptation of Cork author Catherine Ryan Howard’s 56 Days (Amazon Prime Video) is unapologetically in the latter category. Not having encountered the novel, I can’t comment on its quality, but the TV show is … Read more
Pick of the Week Lord of the Flies Sunday, BBC One, 9pm It might surprise you to hear toxic masculinity didn’t start with TikTok. Seventy years ago, author William Golding addressed the issue, though his setting was not a social media platform but a desert island in the Pacific. Now the BBC launches its highly … Read more
Game of Thrones has come home to Ireland with the new spin-off A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (Sky Atlantic, 9pm, NOW) – and what a rewarding return to its misty spiritual heartland it proves. As with the original series, it was filmed in Belfast and its environs – and you can tell. The rain … Read more