Hitting a run of bad luck recently what with plague and now the act of God that took the satellite dish out in the bad storms. So I am bereft without my […]
TV REVIEW: The Netflix files: Safety Not Guaranteed, Nesting, Veronica Mars
TV Preview- Moone Boy, Doll and Em, Synecdoche, New York
The second season of Moone Boy arrives on our screens on Monday evening at 9pm on Sky 1. I often wonder if RTE ever have a slight twinge of regret as award […]
TV: Looking, Bonnie and Clyde, True Detective
Is Looking (Sky Atlantic, Monday: 10.35pm) America’s answer to Queer as Folk, or an all male Sex and the City? Set in San Francisco, it follows the lives of three men. Patrick, […]
TV This Week
I forgot to write about it last week, but its not too late to catch the first episode of The Spoils of Babylon tonight at 9pm on Fox. An illustrious cast including […]
TV this Week
So we’re finally over the Christmas TV schedule and back to business. Winter TV is infinitely better than any other time of the year, with many returning favorites coming onto our screens […]
Twin Peaks to Return?
‘She’s dead, wrapped in plasitc’ Update: This is looking like it’s not going to happen, sadly! The Guardian has a quote from Mark Frost (Co-creator) calling it a “another strange baseless rumor”. […]
Podcasts: (5 of the) Best of 2013
It’s officially award season and the one great advantage to this is to find a few gems that you might have missed along the way. Stitcher is an app that I’ve written […]
Christmas TV 2013
What festive highlights await us on TV over the next two weeks? Are all those perennial favorite movies that make Christmas for us in the schedule? After the shock news that Elf […]
TV Round Up of 2013
As everyone knows by now its the time of the year for all the “Best of” lists and why should TV be any exception. The Huffington Post recently published its top 10 […]
TV Review – Woman Raised by Monkeys, Trading Places, Sherlock..
We’re officially in the countdown to Christmas and here and there you will find the Christmas movies creeping into the schedule. For a bit of schmaltz there is Love Actually on RTE1,Wednesday […]
TV Preview – Don’t Ever Wipe Tears Without Gloves / Clear History
BBC 4 are the home of fantastic Scandinavian drama’s these days and I’m really looking forward to the three part series beginning on Monday night, Don’t Ever Wipe Tears Without Gloves. Set […]
TV Preview- The Returned/ Blackfish/ The Sound of Musicals
It’s that time of year when the lists begin appearing in all the newspapers, magazines and websites and here at the workhorse it’s no different. My top pick for Best TV of […]
Generation War – TV Review
RTE last night broadcast the first episode of the German epic Generation War (Unsere Mütter, Unsere Väter). Produced by the makers of Downfall, it draws comparisons to the excellent Band of Brothers. […]
TV Preview – Borgen, Witches Of East End…
Borgen returns this week to BBC4 (Saturday 9pm) hopefully heralding the restoration of good Scandinavian/ subtitled tv on our screens in this darkest of seasons. This is the third and final season […]
RTE Arena Live at Dublin Book Festival – Review
If CS Lewis was right, and the future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, then last night’s live recording of RTE’s Arena at the Dublin […]
TV Preview – Mysterious Skin
TV Preview – Mysterious Skin – Film 4 Friday 15th November 1.20am I first saw Mysterious Skin in New York’s equivalent of the IFI, the IFC, while on honeymoon in 2005. I […]
TV Preview – Adventure Time and Regular Show – Cartoon Network – Daily
Midterm break is coming to an end and with it is the end of my daily diet of kids TV. Through the murky haze of Doc McStuffins, Show Me Show Me, Sofia […]
TV Preview: Halloween Fare
The difficulty with Halloween falling midweek is that most of the horror movies are shown at the book-ending weekends. However if you are looking to get your scare on there are a […]
The Walking Dead – Season 4 Premiere – Review
The Walking Dead returned last week with a cracker of an episode. The finale of season three shifted the boundaries quite considerably with the lead villain on the run, the perils of […]
TV Preview – American Horror Story: Coven
TV Preview – American Horror Story: Coven – Fox October 29th 10pm Improbable as it may seem that the creator of Glee came up with the American Horror Story series, now entering […]
TV Preview – Glee “The Quarterback” Sky1 Friday 8pm
How do you address the issue of one of your stars dying during a break in filming? This was the quandary facing the writers and producers of Glee when Cory Monteith died […]
TV Preview- Sky Living Autumn Schedule
When Sky launched its Living channel it was all pink and fluffy and seemed to aim solely for the female market with its choice of branding and programs. It is currently undergoing […]
TV Preview: The Big C Hereafter Finale
So its all about the Breaking Bad at the moment, spoilers, dissemination’s, lamentations. I still have the first two seasons staring down at me from the book shelf, unwatched. But I promise […]
Things to do in Dublin this week (23-09-13 to 29-09-13)
It’s another week of change, with the Fringe festival sadly departing for another year, but the Theatre Festival starts, so you’ve no chance of being bored. It’s also Arthurs day on Thursday […]
TV Preview – Black Orphan
TV Preview- Orphan Black- BBC 3 Friday 9pm This new Science Fiction drama comes from Canada/America and is debuting in a double bill on Friday night. Orphan and street hustler, Sarah, witnesses […]
TV preview- Bates Motel
TV preview- Bates Motel- Universal Channel -Thursday 9pm The autumn season seems to be getting under way with the return of all out winter favorites. In the last few weeks The Newsroom, […]
Run – Channel 4 – TV Review
‘Run’, a four-part drama recently broadcast on Channel 4, was at various stages, moving, gripping, frightening, depressing, and mostly, compelling. The four stories have inter-connected characters and themes and all centre on […]
Maxine Peake: Performance, Protest And Peterloo (BBC2) – TV Review
Peake Performance – ‘Review of The Culture Show – Maxine Peake: Performance, Protest And Peterloo’ (BBC2) Maxine Peake is one of the more intelligent actors around – she thinks and speaks a […]
Suits – TV – Review
Imagine the ‘Pitch’ – ‘Ok think L.A. Law set in New York – Good-Looking Young Lawyers, Older Warhorse, Younger Buck, Hotty Young Lady Lawyers, this will just ooze s*x and money’. And, […]
No More Workhorse 