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THE REMOTE IS our weekly look at upcoming TV highlights.
From drama and comedy, to factual and reality TV, we’ll bring you some of the shows to watch out for from both traditional broadcasters and the main streaming services.
Find yourself a comfy spot.
Love it, hate it or grudgingly get sucked in by it, Love Island is back on our screens on bank holiday Monday.
If you’re unfamiliar with the premise, Love Island basically takes a bunch of preened and fame-hungry men and women to a villa in Spain and follows them as they date each other.
Pictured above is Dami Hope from Dublin who’s one of the islanders this year and has told producers he’s signed up “to get some new experiences”.
The show has been a ratings smash hit for ITV and may just be the escapism you need.
When’s it on? Nightly from next Monday at 9pm on Virgin Media Two
In the mid-1990s, Spórtiris was a half-hour weekly sports magazine programme produced by RTÉ and broadcast on what was then Teilifís na Gaeilge.
A bit of a mould-breaker in its day, the show is now being revived by TG4 as SPÓRT IRIS.
The show will see Dara Ó Cinnéide and Gemma Ní Chionnaith be joined each week by a panel of experts to analyse and preview all the best of the summer sports action across GAA, rugby, racing and more.
TG4 are promising analysis, talking points and live interviews.
When’s it on? Fridays at 9.55pm on TG4
The highly anticipated second season of the Flight Attendant is out now.
Now almost a year sober, Kaley Cuoco stars as Cassie who has started fresh in L.A. with her supportive new boyfriend, Marco; but her side gig moonlighting as a CIA asset soon finds Cassie entangled in an international murder mystery again.
When’s it on? Thursday at 10.15pm on Sky Showcase, or streaming on Sky or Now TV
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What a horrible lot don’t blame the USA for trying to keep them out
Michael, drug cartels are so powerful because of US drug use, US war on drugs is a joke, calling Mexicans ‘a horrible lot’ is rather simplistic view
Micheal two young mexicans are dead because of the illegal drugs industry, because they may have used their rights to freedom of speech (a right upheld in the constitutions of many countries) to speak out against drug cartels. Are they part of the horrible lot too?The drugs industry is an international one it doesn’t follow borders, it just follows supply and demand.
Michael, try educating yourself before you make idiotic comments in future.
Dear drug cartels,
You can’t stop the signal!
Sooner you learn that, the better!
I’ve been meeting so many people facing these kinds of threats every day at the Frontline Human Rights Defenders Platform in Dublin Castle this week. 130 incredibly brave people from 85 countries being threatened for standing up for their basic rights. Its shocking to hear stories like this one. Can you imagine actually facing that fear every day but continuing to fight for the right thing despite it? And what if you had kids? Massive respect to the journalists who fight back. Rant over. If you guys interested in reading more about them, visit http://www.frontlinehumanrights.org
Mexico, a failed state now. Imagine the situation in ten years time.
There was a great show on last week where that sas guy chris Ryan teamed up with the special police there ‘bope’. Incredible stuff seeing the conditions in the favelas. The place is overrun with drugs and crime. Remember last year when hundreds of cops raided the place and arrested hundreds?
Scary stuff if they are turning to killing those using social media and reporters
My bad mad durdu. I made a mistake.
I ain’t a clown though. I wouldn’t say murderers, they are going in dealing with serious criminals and drug cartels.
This was a mad story. On Monday.
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