Watch of the Week: The Young Offenders
TV WEEK (Wednesday 1st to Tuesday 7th)
TOP SPECIALS
Other Voices (RTÉ 1, Thursday 2nd, 11.05pm)
Ireland’s landmark live music show completes the last episode of its 24th series, having featured another incredible line-up of homegrown and international talent. The final episode of the series is devoted to the return of one of Ireland’s most resonant international voices, singer-songwriter Dermot Kennedy.
Click To Kill: The AI War Machine (CH4, Thursday 2nd, 10pm)
Artificial intelligence and drones are changing the face of war and transforming the global battlefield – deployed with much fanfare in military action from Iran to Venezuela and Gaza. With unique access in Ukraine, with the US army, and from within Israel, Click to Kill charts the new technological arms race and asks whether these tools will lead to more wars that are ever more brutal?
Inside Cadbury: Chocolate Secrets Unwrapped (CH4, Friday 3rd, 8pm)
Deep inside the Willy Wonka world of Cadbury at the famous Bournville plant, a team of scientists struggle to meet the biggest challenge the company’s faced for a century – to dramatically cut sugar from their Dairy Milk recipe for the flagship chocolate bar on which the reputation of the company has been built.
Easter Sunday Mass (RTÉ 1, Sunday 5th, 10.00am)
Live from the Franciscan convent in Paris’s 14th Arrondisement, this most important feast in the Christian calendar is celebrated with a Eurovision Mass that commemorates the 800th anniversary of the death of St Francis of Assisi. Mass presided over by Frédéric-Marie Le Méhaute.
Spymasters: The Great Spy Writers (Sky Arts, Tuesday 7th, 9pm)
A new four-part series exploring the lives and secrets of remarkable spies and spy authors in literature and film. Investigating the lives, works, and secrets of some of the most brilliant spy authors in literature, from Erskine Childers to John le Carré, and intelligence agent Graham Greene, who penned genre defining novels including The Quiet American, The Third Man and Our Man in Havana.
WATCH OF THE WEEK
The Young Offenders (RTÉ 1, Saturday 4th, 10.30pm)
Season five has Conor and Jock back together again after a disastrous brush with the law saw them spend time in jail on two different continents. After a chance opportunity allows Jock to escape back from Colombia to Cork, the lads slip quickly into their old ways, wreaking havoc everywhere – but still only wanting the best for themselves and their families. Conor faces losing the love of his life, while Jock tries to rebuild his relationship with Star.
BEST FILMS
Bob Marley: One Love (RTÉ 1, Friday 3rd, 9.35pm)
Celebrates the life and music of an icon who inspired generations through his message of love and unity – and who brought reggae to a global audience. This dramatised film charts his legendary rise of overcoming adversity on a journey to make a gentle revolution with unique music that inspired a generation.
Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid (TG4, Friday 3rd, 9pm)
This classic from 1973 sees sheriff Pat Garrett (James Coburn) going after the outlaw Billy the Kid (Kris Kristofferson) on the orders of the powerful cattlemen syndicate. While Garrett and Billy are old friends, the lawman abides by his duty – but has great difficulty catching the cunning Billy, who also gains the assistance of Alias (Bob Dylan), a mysterious knife-wielding stranger.
Wedding Crashers (BBC 1, Friday 3rd, 11.15pm)
Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson play divorce mediators who spend their free time crashing wedding receptions – finding it is the best way to drink for free and bed vulnerable women. However, when the gamey pair decide to crash the wedding of the daughter of the secretary of the treasury, their game hits a bump in the road when one of them locks eyes with bridesmaid Rachel McAdams.
Final Destination: Bloodlines (Sky Cinema Premiere, from Friday)
The newest chapter takes audiences back to the beginning of Death’s twisted sense of justice and where college student Stefanie heads home to track down the one person who might be able to break the cycle and save her family from the grisly demise that inevitably awaits them all.
CLASSIC MOVIE
The Wolf Of Wall Street (BBC 2, Friday 3rd, 10pm)
In 1987, Jordan Belfort joined a Wall Street brokerage firm, and went on to found his own firm, Stratton Oakmont, while still in his 20s. Together with a merry band of brokers, Belfort made a huge fortune by defrauding wealthy investors out of millions as they partied in a hedonistic brew of sex, drink and drugs. In the end, the FBI came calling. Leo di Caprio and Margot Robbie star.
KIDS STUFF
The Bad Guys 2 (Sky Cinema Premiere, from Friday)
Everyone’s favourite felons are back, with our now-reformed Bad Guys trying very hard to be good, but instead find themselves hijacked into a high-stakes heist, masterminded by a new team of criminals they never saw coming: The Bad Girls.
Toy Story 3 (CH4, Sunday 5th, 5.10pm)
With Andy preparing to leave for college, Woody, Buzz Lightyear, Jessie and the rest of the toys find themselves headed for the attic but mistakenly wind up being donated to a day-care centre where uncontrollable kids do not play nice, forcing the gang to make plans for a great escape.
ON DEMAND
Eat, Pray, Bark (Netflix)
This canine comedy sees five eccentric dog owners seeking help in dealing with their four-legged friends at an intensive course with the charismatic and legendary dog trainer Nodon in the Tyrolean mountains. They includes dog-hating politician Ursula; naive Babs with her large, boisterous Torsten; the bickering couple Ziggy and Helmut with their spoiled Terrier Gaga; and Hakan, who mistrusts his insecure Belgian Shepherd Roxy.
Trust Me: The False Prophet (Netflix)
Four-part documentary series chronicles the rise of Samuel Bateman, the self-proclaimed heir to the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, through the eyes of one couple who infiltrated his inner circle and uncovered evidence of ongoing evil. A riveting saga of devotion, deception, and the cycle of abuse in one of America’s most secretive communities.
Your Friends and Neighbours (Apple TV)
After being fired in disgrace, a hedge fund manager resorts to stealing from his neighbours’ homes in the extremely affluent Westmont Village, only to discover that the secrets and affairs hidden behind those wealthy facades might be more dangerous than he ever imagined.
SPORTS CENTRE
Premier League (Sky Sports, Friday 10th, 8pm & Sunday 12th, 2pm)
It’s all about survival at the bottom of the table when West Ham play Wolves in a game that may well decide if the Hammers stay up or go down. For fans of Wolves, however, it’s already a done deal. While on Sunday 12th, another high-flying club, Spurs, find themselves in a game to decide their season against Sunderland at 2pm.