6 February 2012
These days are regarded as the best times in television history with great shows across the strands of entertainment, drama, comedy, reality, lifestyle and factual. John Byrne has the best of the many new programmes that are coming your way, the pick of the current crop and a reminder of some of the crackers that are either back on or returning to the small screen. It all adds up to over 100 super shows!
From The Commitments to EastEnders and now Shameless, Angeline Ball has enjoyed a quietly successful acting career. Alan Corr talks to her about her latest role as feisty hairdresser Gloria Meak in Channel 4's comedy drama
Whether it's for shows like Dancing on Ice or the latest fitness app, TV stars are dropping dress sizes faster than you can say 'skinny jeans'.
We all know about the rise of Michael Fassbender and Saoirse Ronan, but Irish actors are also taking over the small screen, too. From Hollyoaks to Merlin and to hot new US shows, it seems that fast-rising Irish stars are everywhere. Alan Corr reports
Don't Tell the Bride is back for a second series, with eight more brides entrusting the biggest day of their lives to their fiancés. Janice Butler chats to the first couple up to the mark, Onoir O'Brien and Jason Boyd about their big day!
The Works is a new show which gets out of the studio and right into the middle of the creative arts, whether it's music, visual art, film or literature. Alan Corr talks to presenter John Kelly and the team who'll be getting to the heart of the art
As we hit the mid-point in the current series of restaurant drama Raw, Suzanne Byrne catches up with actor Damon Gameau, who plays head chef Geoff, to find out what's cooking, both in and out of the kitchen
Dean Dowling is bowing out of Carrigstown soon and he will be getting a sensational soap send off. Expect love, lust, lies and broken relationships in abundance, with old faces coming back to join in the drama. Here, Suzanne Byrne catches up with some of those involved
Cabbies versus models, students versus mammies, tattooists versus hoteliers - a new RTÉ quiz show, starting tonight aims to establish what the nation thinks is uncool ot taboo, and what's not. Paddy Kehoe talks to host Derek Mooney
It's the final season of Desperate Housewives but how is it all going to end? Donal O'Donoghue meets Felicity Huffman to talk about leaving Wisteria Lane, her battle with bulimia and why Bree Van de Kamp was the role she really wanted.
Bunny Carr was one of RTÉ's most popular stars in the early days of Irish television. Now 84, he has lost none of his charm and quicksilver wit. Alan Corr meets him to talk about that famous quiz show, his time as a political PR kingpin, and the love of his life, his late wife Joan
With the final season of Desperate Housewives upon us, John Byrne retraces some of the key moments in the show's chaotic and often catastrophic history
There was much to savour last year in the world of entertainment, whether it was movies (True Grit, The Artist), TV (Downton Abbey, The Good Wife) or music (PJ Harvey, Adele); but what does 2012 have in store? We take a peek ahead.
They say good things come in three - just ask Neven Maguire, who's had a wonderful past year. Donal O'Donoghue talks to the award-winning chef
Generosity is even more important during hard times, and almost nobody has it as hard as Kolkata's Chaulgola community, Fair City's Aoibhin Garrihy tells Harry Guerin.
The Irish Film and Television Awards
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Take Me Out
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