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Irish Independent
10 hours ago
- Irish Independent
Today's top TV and streaming picks: Ladies All-Ireland football finals, The Menu and Hunting The Yorkshire Ripper
Peil na mBan Beo TG4, 11.35am Máire Ní Bhraonáin hosts the three ladies All-Ireland football finals back-to-back, which are set to take place at Croke Park. National Athletics Championships 2025 RTÉ2, 5pm Paul O'Flynn is at Morton Stadium in Santry to present live coverage of the event. Sprinter Rhasidat Adeleke was the star of the show last year — but who will catch the eye this time around? All Creatures Great and Small RTÉ One, 6.30pm Is it the end of the road for Carmody? Maybe not — he's been offered a position in London, but thinks he might be better off staying in Skeldale. Meanwhile, Mr Bosworth discovers something shocking and Doris asks James to treat a ferret. Fleadh25 TG4, 9.30pm We're off to Wexford for five programmes of highlights from this year's festival of Irish music. The first edition sees Doireann Ní Ghlacáin and Peadar Ó Goill take a look back at the provincial finals held in Ballinasloe, Drogheda, Cork and Warrenpoint. We'll also hear from some up-and-coming talents. The Shop Around the Corner BBC Two, 12.40pm Classic romantic comedy starring James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan as co-workers who can't stand the sight of each other, little realising they've been beloved pen pals for years. The film was re-imagined as You've Got Mail in 1998, with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan in the lead roles. The Menu RTÉ One, 9.30pm Dark comedy-drama starring Ralph Fiennes as a superstar chef who runs an exclusive restaurant on a remote island where his latest patrons are about to get a nasty surprise. Anya Taylor-Joy and Nicholas Hoult co-star. Hunting The Yorkshire Ripper Prime Video, streaming now Not to be confused with Jack the Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe shared a taste for misdirection and was ultimately facilitated by a Wearside Jack, whose notes and tapes led the police astray back in the 1970s. Fifty years later, retired detective Chris Gregg assembles a cold case team to hunt the impersonator who kept Sutcliffe's crimes alive. Trainwreck: Storm Area 51 Netflix, streaming now Frankly, I don't mind that they're starting to get repetitive; it's still appointment viewing every week in Chez McGinley. In 2019, a joke Facebook event to 'storm Area 51' went viral, drawing millions and triggering warnings from US authorities. Indeed, it does sound exceedingly similar to last month's Real Project X instalment, but I'm still here for it. Conversations with a Killer: The Son of Sam Tapes Netflix, streaming now 'Tis the turn of David Berkowitz's police tapes to get an airing. This chilling docuseries unpacks the Son of Sam killings, exposing Berkowitz's disturbing mindset he unleashed on 1970s NYC. Brady and the Blues Prime Video, streaming now Prime appears to be chasing some of that Welcome to Wrexham magic with a new sports docuseries featuring NFL icon Tom Brady. Mind you, this could be entirely different given Brady, at 3.3pc, is very much a minority stakeholder in Birmingham City FC. Perfect Match Netflix, streaming now Netflix's biggest reality stars – from Love Is Blind to Too Hot To Handle – head to paradise to search for love (or more followers) in a strategic dating showdown. So, like Battle Camp but with more bikinis. For more 'unscripted' drama, WWE: Unreal takes fans inside the writer's room for a look at the chaos behind the curtain. Leanne Morgan's world flips when her husband leaves after 33 years. Menopausal and newly single, she leans on her family – especially her fierce sister Carol (Kristen Johnston) – to tackle this next chapter with Southern grit and lashings of 'jello salad'. Chuck Lorre is involved, so it can't be too bad.
Irish Examiner
2 days ago
- Irish Examiner
TV review: Why Prime Video's The Assassin is the perfect hate-watch
Telly is different during the summer. You need something frothy and fun to distract from the fact you should be cutting the grass. The Assassin (Prime Video) feels like it should fit the bill. Keeley Hawes plays Julie, a hit-woman who has retired to a Greek island. The opening sequence, a flashback to a hit in Bulgaria, is full of brutish villains and cartoon violence, a parody of Jason Bourne films, which were parodies of themselves, so this should be fun. But it isn't. It's like they've invented a new genre, a comedy caper that isn't funny, where they run with the first draft of the script because that's just the kind of people they are. The result is a story-line with holes big enough for a fleet of trucks, fleshed out with pancake-flat dialogue. Julie is given one final job, to kill a woman called Kayla on a yacht. She decides not to at the last minute, for no reason, but it's just as well because the next day her dweeb of a son, Edward, arrives and announces that Kayla is his fiancée. There is an inevitable Greek wedding attended by everyone in the village, where less predictably, most of them are shot. Julie and Edward flee to Kayla's yacht, and they all go to Albania for reasons which aren't clear. Keeley Hawes attends a photocall for the Assassin at the Soho Hotel, in central date: Thursday July 3, 2025. PA Photo. Kayla, a rich heiress, doesn't seem to mind that her future mother-in-law kills people for money, maybe because she didn't kill her. Meanwhile there is a Dutch IT nerd in a Libyan prison (keep up!) who is trying to blackmail an angry Australian businessman who lives in huge house in France. There is very little humour and way too much chopping off limbs. At no point do I believe any of this. And still, I'm five episodes in and still watching. The new genre they've invented is a kind of immersive hate-watch, where you stay glued to the action because you don't want to miss a giant plot-hole. My wife and I have really enjoyed pointing out why something doesn't make sense. The show looks great, with sweeping views of Greek islands and Albanian coast-line. And here is the odd funny scene, probably by accident. But mainly I've stayed watching because they've put just enough intrigue into the plot to keep me hanging on. What does the angry Australian businessman keep in his safe? Is Julie's estranged husband behind all of this? What could Kayla possibly see in dweeby Edward? If you're stuck for something to watch, give The Assassin a go. It beats cutting the grass.
RTÉ News
2 days ago
- RTÉ News
Jeremy Clarkson 'not enjoying farming this week' after bovine TB found on farm
Former Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson has said he is "not enjoying farming" at the moment, amid a week that has seen bovine tuberculosis found on his Diddly Squat Farm. The TV star, 65, said he is also dealing with "a very sickly calf", and discovered that one of his puppies had died on Friday morning. On Thursday, he wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that a pregnant cow had contracted the disease on his farm near Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire. Speaking to Times Radio Breakfast, he said: "It's awful, it is awful. You have a test every six months on the cows and then you sort of become blasé, it's a hypothetical threat. "And then the vet looks up, as he did yesterday lunchtime, and said 'I'm really sorry this one's failed'. "So that means we're now locked down and it's just dreadful, absolutely dreadful." Cattle which fail a TB test, or animals that have inconclusive results for two consecutive tests, are classed as "reactors", and must be isolated and slaughtered. Clarkson added: "It's only been not even 24 hours since I found out and it occupies my mind. Well it was occupying my mind but I got up this morning and found one of my puppies has died. "And we've got a very sickly calf. Honestly, farming? I'm not enjoying it this week." Asked in the comments of his X post about the prize bull called Endgame, which Clarkson bought recently for £5,500 (€6,300), he said: "His test was 'inconclusive'. I couldn't bear it if we lost him." In a follow-up post, he said: "The farm is NOT shut. We just can't buy or sell any cows." Bovine TB is recognised as a problem which devastates farm businesses and is mainly spread through close contact when cattle breathe in droplets of mucus containing Mycobacterium bovis bacteria exhaled from an infectious animal. There have been several cases in the area of Oxfordshire near to Diddly Squat Farm in recent weeks, according to ibTB, a mapping platform for the disease in England and Wales. The every-day running of Clarkson's farm is documented in a Prime Video series, which first aired in 2021, and brings to light common problems faced by British farmers.
