The Republic of Telly (10.00pm RTÉ 2) returns with Kevin McGahern and Bernard O’Shea as rogue TV Licence Inspectors. Would You Believe: Pope Francis – The Sinner (9.35pm RTÉ One) investigates the life of the current incumbent, Jorge Mario Bergoglio. Raised By Wolves (10.00pm Channel 4) is Caitlin and Caroline Morans modern-day reimagining of the Morans’ own childhood in a working class estate in England.
The Republic of Telly
10.00pm RTÉ 2
In the first show of the new series, Kevin McGahern and Bernard O’Shea are rogue TV Licence Inspectors who break the rules in interesting ways to make sure you’ve paid up. Laura Whitmore stars as the head of the SWAT team who works with the lads on their dawn raids. And when Jennifer Maguire goes missing Laura turns crime sleuth in “Gone Jen”. When she appears as Jen in a reconstruction for Crime Call she begins to suspect Kevin and Bernard were involved.
Would You Believe: Pope Francis – The Sinner
9.35pm RTÉ One
Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the current Pope is a man who readily calls himself a 'sinner'. Tonight's first programme in the new series meets Argentinean Jesuits who lived with him, the programme explores his reputation as a hard-line, sometimes divisive authoritarian Provincial. Friends, contemporaries and students categorically deny his complicity in Argentina’s so-called Dirty War. Picture shows the Pope with his former Press Sec Father Guillermo Marcó. Marco was spokesman and close confidant of The Pope during his time as a Cardinal.
Raised By Wolves
10.00pm Channel 4
New series of Caitlin and Caroline Morans modern-day re-imagining of the Morans’ own childhood. In the first episode, the Garrys - a family of six - are taken out into nature ie. the local common by their survivalist mother Della (Rebekah Staton). There they are instructed in how to forage for free food and ‘skill up’. Meanwhile, the eldest child Germaine (Helen Monks) has a ploy to get closer to the boy of her delusional dreams, local yob Lee (Kaine Zajaz).
