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The best TV to watch this weekend including Spencer Matthews’ powerful documentary Finding Michael

TOP PICK: FINDING MICHAEL Disney+ Spencer Matthews, still best-known to most people for Made in Chelsea and, at least in Ireland, for being married to Vogue Williams, embarks on a highly personal, deeply moving mission like no other. Matthews was 10 years old when his brother Michael disappeared after reaching…

Irish Independent

On The Box: The US and the Holocaust shows America’s anti-Semitic past casts a long shadow

Nobody does American history television quite like director Ken Burns. You know what you’re going to get from the country’s most famous documentary-maker.

Irish Independent

In praise of 1979’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: Guinness’s Smiley is still as mesmerising as ever

The problem with modern period dramas set in the 1970s is that it’s usually a struggle to suspend your disbelief entirely. The trappings are always too studiedly spot-on for their own good.

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Early Doors co-creator speaks out on third season as hit show returns to BBC

Fans of the classic Manc comedy series are demanding a new series from the BBC - there's even a petition

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Pat Stacey’s weekend TV picks: It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas telly

Noah Centineo is, so the young folk under our roof tell me, a teen romcom heartthrob. The Recruit (Netflix), not to be confused with the Noughties Colin Farrell film of the same name, sees him stepping up to something a bit more grown-up as a young lawyer whose first week…

Irish Independent

Pat Stacey’s weekend TV picks: Gary Oldman is back in action as the anti-James Bond in Slow Horses

Just eight months after its first season, the magnificent Slow Horses (Apple TV+), starring Gary Oldman as the irascible, hygienically-challenged but brilliant spymaster Jackson Lamb, is back with another gripping, mordantly funny six-parter.

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Pat Stacey’s weekend TV picks: James Corden serves up some irony by starring as a top chef

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Pat Stacey’s weekend TV picks: Ben Elton is back just as Jodie Whittaker heads for the exit door in Doctor Who

The anything-can-happen spirit of live television comedy in the 1980s is revived, if only for 90 minutes, in the one-off special Friday Night Live (Channel 4, 9pm). The series, a mixture of stand-up and variety show, started out as Saturday Live in 1985 and was moved to Fridays three years…

Irish Independent

Pat Stacey’s weekend TV picks: Sidney Poitier tribute tends to skate around the bumps

Sidney (Apple TV+), produced by Oprah Winfrey and directed by Reginald Hudlin.

Irish Independent

Pat Stacey: Just one TV series in last year has been a departure from diet of dull, dispiriting dramas

Rewatching Our Friends in the North on BBC4 last week for the first time since its original broadcast in 1996, I was struck by two things.

Irish Independent

This year’s best drama is 26 years old and stars a future James Bond and a future Doctor Who

You won’t find a better drama in 2022 than Our Friends in the North, starting on BBC4 tonight. This might seem a pretty big claim to make for something that’s 26 years old, yet I haven’t seen anything else this year, or in any of the previous 26 years for…

Irish Independent

Pat Stacey’s weekend TV preview: Dastardly deeds afoot in a dark Dublin comedy Bad Sisters

Sharon Horgan’s name in the credits of any series is always a good enough reason to give it a whirl — although you might experience a touch of déjà vu watching Bad Sisters (Apple TV+), a Dublin-set remake of the Flemish dark comedy series Clan, which was shown on Channel…

Irish Independent

Pat Stacey’s weekend TV preview: Elisabeth Moss chases a time-hopping murderer in Shining Girls

SERIAL killer thriller meets time travel mystery in the eight-part miniseries Shining Girls (Apple TV+). Elisabeth Moss plays an archivist at the Chicago Sun-Times in the 1990s who teams up with a detective (Wagner Moura from Narcos) to hunt a murderer (Jamie Bell) who attacked and almost killed her 10…

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