What to watch on RTÉ Player this week? The RTÉ Player team share their top picks to watch on RTÉ Player this week.
What's New?
Home & Away Stars Get to Grips with Irish Slang
As Australia marked a resounding and historical ‘Yes’ vote to marriage equality, spare a thought for those newlyweds who might want to take their honeymoon in the Emerald Isle but may find themselves completely confused when it seems everyone keeps paying a visit to some lad called ‘Jack’…
Step forward Home & Away's Matt Little (VJ) and Dan Ewing (Heath Braxton) to help decipher this Irish colloquial code. Watch as Dan Ewing (Heath Braxton) issues an apology to the good people of Kildare as he completely misunderstands exactly what a ‘bogger’ is...
What’s Trending?
The School is a brand new mockumentary from Cork based comedy group CCCahoots who follow the trials and tribulations of a brand new school principal as he deals with a disruptive teacher and a school secretary with a crush on him while preparing for the annual Nativity play.
This family friendly show will have you and the kids in a fit of giggles. The entire series of The School is available exclusively on RTÉ Player before it even broadcasts on RTÉ2 on Thursday, 23rd November at 10.35pm on RTÉ2. Watch The School here first!
What Not to Miss?
You may have noticed #Nowhere Fast trending on social media last week as Alison Spittle's new comedy had the nation in stitches with laughter. The show follows a woman in returning to rural Ireland after a career disaster in the big smoke.
Angela (played by Spittle) returns to her family home to be Mammied for a while and plan her next move. Can she escape the quicksand of small town Ireland and get her life back on track? And, in the meantime, can she keep her friends and family happy so she can get lifts? Watch the hilarious first episode of Nowhere Fast now.
Pick of the Week
This one hour documentary for RTÉ One presented by Anne-Marie Tomchak, UK editor of Mashable explores how robots and artificial intelligence could be on course to transform the jobs market, render the skills of swathes of the population obsolete and utterly transform the way we work. Are we prepared for this change?
Robots might be able to do certain jobs but can they replace humans when it comes to qualities like empathy, humour or even the capacity for intimacy?
Professions like auditors, taxi drivers, GPs, surgeons, customer service staff, legal researchers, journalists, bricklayers, farmers, accountants, diagnostic consultants – the list is endless – will all see their work disrupted by the deep learning capacity of robots. Watch it now on RTÉ Player!
