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THE REMOTE IS our weekly look at the upcoming TV listings.
What With Everything, people are at home a bit more than usual these days so we’ve got you covered whether you want a solo TV night or one for all the family.
We’ll focus mainly on free-to-air TV and freely available streaming services – with the occasional recommendation from subscription services too.
Every day is treat yo' self day in 2021. Parks and Recreation comes to Netflix UK/IE on 1 Feb. pic.twitter.com/Q5bKaMZz13
— Netflix UK & Ireland (@NetflixUK) January 6, 2021
If you’ve never had the pleasure of getting into Parks and Recreation the comedy series is now up on Netflix in its entirety.
The show is from the makers of the US Office and features some of the biggest comedians in the US of the past decade including Amy Poehler, Aziz Ansari and Chris Pratt.
The sitcom is set in what is essentially the US version of the OPW and is brings much joy along its seven seasons. The programme perhaps best hits its grove from the second series on, so if you fancy skipping the first it’s not a bad idea.
When’s it on? Streaming now on Netflix.
Another sure-fire way to know spring has sprung is the Six Nations kicking off. Understandably it’s all a little under the radar this year with the spectator-less tournament taking much of the merriment from the occasion.
The games begin on Saturday with Italy-France at 2.15 pm, England-Scotland at 4.45 pm and Wales-Ireland on Sunday at 3 pm. All the games are on Virgin Media One again this year.
When’s it on? A Six Nations Preview Show is on at 11pm tonight on Virgin Media One.
ZeroZeroZero is a new Italian crime series about the global cocaine smuggling industry from the makers of Gomorrah. It’s being released on Amazon Prime, Now TV and Sky TV.
The show has won some praise from critics for how it manages to weave together elements of traditional Mafia dramas, Mexican narco thrillers and a US-indie style.
Ireland’s Gabriel Byrne stars as the owner of a US shipping company profiting from the trade.
When’s it on? Thursday at 9pm on Sky Atlantic
The third and final part of UK drama Quiz is on RTÉ this weekend.
The show is about how British army major Charles Ingram and his wife Diana tried to con their way to the top prize in Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.
It features Michael Sheen as Chris Tarrant and Succession’s Matthew Macfadyen as Ingram. The show goes into how they tried to pull of the audacious heist and how they ultimately ended up in court.
The first two episodes are on the RTÉ Player if you need to catch up.
When’s it on? Sunday at 9.30pm on RTÉ One
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More natural forests are needed
Instead of plastic ones.
Are they talking about forests or the sterile non-native conifer plantations which blight our landscape and threaten the survival of species such as Hen Harrier? Judging the reasoning behind the groups in question I’m reckoning they’re talking about the plantations rather than native or semi-natural woodlands rich in biodiversity.
Special branch should look into this.
i think they are on leave at the moment
Its not the number of trees being planted but how bio diverse the forests are. Acres of conifer plantations do more environmental harm than good
especially to rivers, the massive amounts of sulfer put in the soil runs off and drops the Ph of rivers ruining spawning grounds
Here we go, a report to soften us up for the privitisation of Coillte, the largest single landowner in the State
Sounds about right.
That’s a great pic of lough Tay in county Wicklow. A member of the Guinness family has a wonderful house down there, although he may have passed away. I have cycled and hiked over these Wicklow mountains and really feel that they should be covered in forests. This land was covered at one time with oak and other trees. The govt needs to get the finger out and start to increase Irish woodlands. If you leave the land alone the trees will come back naturally.
Jim Jameson
Why would you need to be softened up for a Government sale of the collet harvesting rights? Have you seen the appalling Annual Reports over the last few years?
In 2011 they had sales of 259 m and only managed a profit of 19.9m and this is with free land a story wen a massive one million acres.
Worse than this their pension fund has a shortfall of nearly a hundred million Euro. How do you manage that trick with just one thousand employees? The answer is simple ……..make it a publicly owned enterprise and they’ll just milk it for all it’s worth.
See the harvesting rights for up to two billion and let someone else do the real job of managing the business as that clearly hasn’t been done for some time.
We get to keep the land. We get money for new investment in the economy and the workers get their pension funds fixed.
With proper management exports will increase and the State will accrue further profit taxes.
Simple.
….sell the harvesting rights….. Mea culpa
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