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The Remote: Ireland's Covid Battle, British Classic Races and some classic Jim Carrey

Here’s what’s happening in TV land this week.

THE REMOTE IS our weekly look at the upcoming TV listings, featuring a range of recommendations.

We’re all at home a bit more these days, looking for something to keep us occupied and entertained.

Something to keep you informed…

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The first part of RTÉ Investigates’ two-part documentary from inside St James’ Hospital during the Covid-19 pandemic was broadcast last night to great praise

As well as doctors, nurses and other hospital workers, the documentary crew also spent time with the families of some of the patients affected by the coronavirus. The second part of Inside Ireland’s Covid Battle is on tonight. 

When’s it on? Part two is on tonight at 9.35pm. Part one is on the RTÉ Player

Something to make you laugh….

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Speaking of the RTÉ Player, if you happened to miss last Friday’s Comic Relief programme all of the best sketches have been put up online

In truth, picking the ones you like the look of most is probably a better way to do it than sitting through the whole thing.

The programme raised over €5 million for charity with the Fleabag/Normal People crossover among the most popular skits of the night.

Something to get you in the mood…

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In the mood to get out of the house that is, now that we can leave our respective counties.

There’s a good few new films going up on Netflix this week but perhaps The Truman Show is the one to watch. 

The film is 22 years old but holds up really well in its prescience of reality TV. It’s basically Big Brother on speed before we even had Big Brother. 

When’s it on? Streaming on Netflix from Wednesday

Something to watch as a family…

A Netflix original this time is the streamer’s adaptation of classic book series The Baby-Sitters Club. 

The show isn’t just a nostalgia-fest for millennial fans of the 1990s books. It’s made mainly for younger viewers and it’s been met with positive reviews ahead of its release

When’s it on? Streaming on Netflix from Friday

Something sporty….

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We’d usually be in the teeth of the football and hurling championships right now so we’re missing out on a lot of free-to-air sport at the moment. 

Luckily, if you’re one for the classics then Virgin Media One will be showing the Epsom Derby this Saturday. 

The jump-free horse race is run over one mile, four furlongs and ten yards and on an undulating course. It’s considered the most prestigious of the five British Classics.

When’s it on? Virgin Media One on Saturday from 1.25pm. The race begins at 4.55pm. 

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    Jan 11th 2017, 8:44 AM

    Typical Man. Any port in a storm.

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    Jan 11th 2017, 9:34 AM

    @john Appleseed: On some occasions its impertinence was tolerated but at other times the deer bolted and ran. Typical female, ha…?

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    Jan 11th 2017, 9:48 AM

    There was an Ottoman Sultan who took a fancy to a cow and dispatched messengers around the empire to bring him back a woman whose rump was sufficiently cowlike for him to satisfy his lust. True story.

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    Jan 11th 2017, 10:09 AM

    Plenty to choose from I’d say!

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    Jan 11th 2017, 10:46 AM

    There once was a sinister Ottoman –
    To the fair sex, it seems, he was not a man.
    He evaded the charms
    Of feminine arms,
    Quite frankly, he said: “I’m a bottom man”

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    Jan 11th 2017, 11:39 AM

    You’re hilarious john.

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    Jan 11th 2017, 11:57 AM

    Probably a Welsh monkey and couldn’t find a sheep.

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    Jan 11th 2017, 12:41 PM

    @ mercurial one. Lack of foreplay perhaps?

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    Jan 11th 2017, 1:34 PM

    What about the farmers in Kerry that have a very close connection to the livestock :L

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    Jan 11th 2017, 8:34 AM

    This calls into question Curious George’s real relationship with The Man With The Big Yellow Hat

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    Jan 11th 2017, 9:55 AM

    Come on, deers are kinda attractive, no?

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    Jan 11th 2017, 8:37 AM

    Oh deer. Another monkey on my back! Come come, This really too much.

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    Jan 11th 2017, 8:37 AM

    ‘Honey, how did you spend your morning?’
    ‘Read the headlines then watched a video of a monkey having sex with a deer’
    ‘That’s it, I want a divorce’

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    Jan 11th 2017, 10:29 AM

    Just imagine all the other monkeys laughing at him and calling him deer shagger.

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    Jan 11th 2017, 8:35 AM

    Search pornhub for more of these scientific studies.

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    Jan 11th 2017, 8:44 AM

    Perverts head on him

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    Jan 11th 2017, 10:41 AM

    I guess that’s how donkeys are made

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    Jan 11th 2017, 2:30 PM

    Excellent

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    Jan 11th 2017, 10:23 AM

    “Monkey see monkey do,” I’d investigate the park ranger

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    Jan 11th 2017, 8:44 AM

    Thought the deer was going to go ape shit.

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    Jan 11th 2017, 9:33 AM

    That monkey needs to be spanked!

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    Jan 11th 2017, 11:42 AM

    I think he spanked it himself king Tut

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    Jan 11th 2017, 9:40 AM

    Could we not give them some privacy?

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    Jan 11th 2017, 9:22 AM

    Well now .. there’s a topic of discussion for a dinner party… so glad the journal decided to enlighten us with this great “news”

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    Jan 11th 2017, 12:36 PM

    How dare anyone judge that monkey, it’s obviously transspecies

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    Jan 11th 2017, 8:45 AM

    Condoms aka The Devils Sheath has no place in a Catholic society. We should be allowed to get herpes at will and bundle our 15 kids into 2 beds. Shame on anybody who uses The Devils Sheath

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    Jan 11th 2017, 8:54 AM

    @john Cooke,Ha Ha,the monkey was hardly using one.

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    Jan 11th 2017, 9:57 AM

    What a slut

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    Jan 11th 2017, 11:45 AM

    The monkey or the deer Martin?

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    Jan 11th 2017, 12:38 PM

    Obviously the deer dressed like that.

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    Jan 11th 2017, 8:58 AM

    “[T]he deer eat food the monkeys drop from the trees, and sometimes feed on their faeces.”

    And don’t let’s forget about their seminal fluid. Research clearly shows that they also feed on that.

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    Any hole is a goal

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    Jan 11th 2017, 10:44 AM

    Enough with the Trump kink stories!!

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    Jan 11th 2017, 10:11 AM

    Its spirit cooking, they learned it from Hillary Clinton

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    Jan 11th 2017, 6:04 PM

    Typical guy, a few beers & any old Deer will do!

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    Jan 11th 2017, 9:37 AM

    men do just what monkey sees

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    Ugh,dirty feicers!

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    Jan 11th 2017, 10:40 AM

    Supply and demand

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    Jan 11th 2017, 10:54 AM

    Do a dear a female dear.# hornet monkey

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    Jan 11th 2017, 9:32 AM

    Oh dear!

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    Jan 11th 2017, 12:40 PM

    Species disphoria?

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    Jan 12th 2017, 6:32 PM

    sick pervert monkey reminds me of Obama and his husband michael

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    Jan 11th 2017, 6:57 PM

    Young elephants do this to rino’s sometimes ending in death

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    Jan 11th 2017, 11:42 PM

    @Warren Doyle: Rhino’s or Wineo’s?

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    Jan 11th 2017, 3:47 PM

    That deer was dressed like a slut n was asking for it nall

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