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THE REMOTE IS our weekly look at the upcoming TV highlights.
What With Everything, people are at home a bit more than usual these days so we’ve got you covered whether you want a a once-off special of a new series to get into.
We’ll focus mainly on free-to-air TV and freely available streaming services.
ITV’s cold case drama series Unforgotten is back for its fourth series. The Bafta-winning programme focuses on a different murder (or murders) each series but the two characters DCI Cassie Stuart (Nicola Walker) and DI Sunny Khan (Sanjeev Bhaskar) remain a constant throughout.
In a packed genre, the show manages to stand out with complex but well-told stories and features British actors you’ll be recognising popping up all the time.
The first three series have been up on Netflix for some time but the new series has arrived after a Covid-related delay.
When’s it on? Mondays at 9pm on ITV One
An indoor trampoline?! YES PLEASE! 🤸♀️🤸♀️🤸♀️#HomeOfTheYear, Tuesday at 8.30pm | @rteplayer pic.twitter.com/ogpiPUc5bT
— RTÉ One (@RTEOne) February 21, 2021
From something bleak to something rather more cosy and familiar in the shape of RTÉ’s Home of the Year, which returned last week.
The programme follows a simple formula of three judges going to three different homes and marking them out of 10 for how useful and homely they are. It’s basically an interior design show without the makeover part so we just get to see the excellent finished product.
The programme also make an effort to feature some more affordable and achievable homes, so it’s not all Grand Designs.
When’s it on? Tuesday at 8.30pm on RTÉ One
TG4′s excellent documentary series Finné is continuing. The show explores the personal testimony of people who’ve faced adversity throughout their life to give an insight into how it affected them.
This week’s episode features Peter Mulryan, who was born in a Galway hospital in 1944 and whose quest to uncover his family history led to discovering that his mother was institutionalised in the Tuam Mother and Baby Home.
It wasn’t until he met the local historian Catherine Corless that he discovered that he may also have a sister who was born in the Home.
When’s it on? Tomorrow on TG4 at 9.30pm
There’s a slate of new shows coming onto Netflix this week but perhaps the most interesting for any sci-fi fans is Tribes of Europa.
The bi-lingual (German and English) dystopian thriller is set in 2074 and in the wake of a mysterious global disaster. The micro-states that are remaining are warring with one another and three siblings from a peaceful tribe are caught up in the fallout.
When’s it on? Streaming now on Netflix
If some simple stand-up comedy is what you’re looking for, Dylan Moran’s Off The Hook show is getting its TV broadcast premiere this weekend.
The Irish comedian’s show is actually from 2015, so you’ll have the added fun of seeing crowds in a theatre having a good laugh together too.
When’s it on? Sunday at 10.15pm on BBC Two
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The press release main photo shows pure disrepect. If your going to shake another mans hand, especially a soldiers. Get off your a$$ man. Standing position required.
@The Viking: Well said
@The Viking: good and valid point
@The Viking: good point. Even his multimillion euro image unit missed that.
@The Viking: I was thinking the exact same thing. The only way that photo is acceptable is if he was actually eating with them and the soldier stuck out a hand while standing to leave even at that it’s still not great.
@The Viking: you beat me to it, well said.
@The Viking: Very fair point. It might be unfortunate timing, however doesn’t Leo have an entire communications team? If they can’t get this right then they really aren’t doing their job.
The comments on here are embarrassing. The sheep just bleat the same anti government rhetoric all the time. The sooner we invest more in education the better as we are desperately in need of it, it may take a generation or two but it will be worth it
@Nick Allen: its the gov propaganda that’s embarrassing!
@Nick Allen: on the rte news tonight, record numbers collecting food parcels from the charities. Leo ain’t sitting down to eat dinner with them. Not good for his image!
@Nick Allen: Nick Education doesn’t teach you respect and manners that’s something you learn at home I know I did.
I’m sure they’re just as thrilled you snuck them in the back door of a European Army
@Skinnerbot: Hasn’t Ireland participated in EU Battlegroups for more than a decade?
@Reg: not the same thing….PESCO puts a target on Ireland where none existed before
@Cathal S Byrne: I think you will find Ireland is already a target for cyber terrorism, drugs and human trafficking, some of the things we signed up to cooperate on with our European neighbours. Have you seen proof to date we don’t need help there?
@Cathal S Byrne: I remember we were a target in the cold war of the 70s and 80s. We all survived!
@Cathal S Byrne: no it doesn’t Irish troops from NI have been deploying into combat zones since WW2 . Recent deployments has been Iraq 3 tours and Afghan 4 tours . 700 troops have recently return from Kabul from a 8 month tour .
@Tommy Whelan: you mean British troops
@Eddie Nugent: no I mean Irish troops in Irish units from the island of Ireland .
@Tommy Whelan: … in the British Army.
Sitting down whilst shaking someone’s hand.How disrespectful
@Liam: Really? Perhaps Leo has no time to stand up while eating when being offered a hand shake from a young soldier…..just saying!
@Liam: And questioning them as to how proud they are. You ‘should be’ proud.
Let them just not ask for a pay rise.
@Tom Burke: ha! I’d say they we’re probably briefed on “proper protocol” before the photo shoot!
@Tom Burke: Another one when their is some emergency or crappy job to be done will shout where is the army,I’d like to see you on the front line on these treacherous borders put your life on the line for less than a living wage and minimum resources.I hope one day some of you have to fight to defend this country,God help us.
@Rand Al Thor: on a seperate note, whatever happened at the end of “Wheel of Time”, gave up after about 12 books…
Fair play taoiseach. Risking your life to go there. Plenty photo opps of dinner with the troops on the frontline. Like we’re at war with???
@Adrian: risk his life ? Really
@bmul: Yeah. Our Brexit saviour and now directing the troops on the front line with our bloody war with ??????
@Adrian: I agree with your sentiments but your last sentence “Like we’re at war with??…Idiotic remark,..You dont have to be at war in order to get killed. Most of these troops dont want to be there but are compelled due to contracts. Peacekeeping Troops are sometimes the enemy of the defender and always the enemy of the oppresser.
@Paul Culligan: apologies. Nobody likes war and Irish troops risking their lives. There’s a certain deliberate comparison between US presidents sitting down with the troops at war where thousands of Americans get killed, and Leo with his, what’s basically a photo shoot opportunity for a very vain taoiseach. That’s where I’m coming from.
Not a pleasant greeting when you sit down to
Meet some one who’s is there representing the Irish flag of Ireland Leo very disrespectful of your visit .
@Kevin: yes I was thinking that myself ,if I done that the better half would lash into me
If he was standing people would complain that it doesn’t matter because it’s all staged anyway… A photo is a single split-second in time and no one ever stands up to brutal analysis of every single photo ever taken of them. To me it looks almost certainly like he’s in the process of standing up in any case.
@Gerard: ah, no not really. The photo also doesn’t show the make up artists that were probably there, and the professional photographer, and the dozen supposedly expert, overpaid gov advisors who didn’t spot this glaring error.
Well Leo pay them a living wage,I’m sure they would prefer that instead of you’re false praise.
Wheres the camo socks?
@Hello DAVE!: Or his Family Income Supplement socks. However the citizenry will be relieved to know that he does have his blue shirt on. The soldier probably did not have his vote for Fine Gael socks on thus leading to the faux pas.
As someone who spent Christmas in South Lebanon away from my kids I just want to say this: I was often dragged from bed because some important f###er or another turned up at the gate and expected everyone to stand on ceremony for them, many times having only got to bed an hour or so before hand. I can assure you nobody is interested in a politician that nobody voted for interrupting their sleep for a handshake. And no the irony is not lost on me. I realise Leo is away from his family too but from the troops point of view they would rather use their frew time skyping their families
@Rex Banner: Spot on, you would not mind if the Taoieach was there to try to make improvements. But that is not so, a free dinner and the photo ops are all that matter. Watch how soldiers pay and conditions and their right to negotiate for their futures (even Ryanair have given in) are continually ignored by our government. It is an utter shame on the Irish State that public servants, Irish soldiers, in full time jobs have to apply for FIS in order to survive. Shame on the Dept. of Defence, Shame on the Oireachtas and shame on Leo Vradkar.
Our proud soldiers deserve to be paid a decent wage. Not treated the way they are by Leo’s government.
@Tony O Neill: SF used to shoot them
And here’s to PESCO, the end of Irish neutrality?
Leave him alone. Can’t you see the man was atin’ his dinner. How could he stand up ffs.
Our troops doing a good job, i wish them all the best, must be hard to be away from their families this time of the year, alot of people forgot how many we have serving this Christmas. seems the commenters prefer to slag off leo and talk about whether he’s standing or sitting instead of praising our brave men and women. First thoughts are why is he sitting, staged photo op, socks,brexit and homeless, unbelievable. Good on these brave people.
I wonder if the half track is still in 6-22 Bayt Yahoun.
That’s my son who’s shaking his hand! I’m very proud of him following in both mine and his grandfathers footsteps with service overseas! As a retired veteran with trips to south Lebanon I know the people are grateful that the Irish are stationed there
America orchestrates it, Britain supplies the weapons, Ireland sends aid.
The photo shoot kid. Photos of photographers. And the distant look of Enda Kenny off him.
PR team asleep at the wheel here, the main photograph gives a sense of laziness and disrespect. For the love of god man stand up and shake our brave troops hands man to man plenty of time to sit in your ass on the flight home!!
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