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Here are some TV highlights for the week ahead. By Rónán Duffy Tuesday 11 May 2021, 6:31 PM Tue 6:31 PM 15,187 Views 3 Comments
THE REMOTE IS our weekly look at upcoming TV highlights.
What With Everything, people are at home a bit more than usual these days so we’ve got you covered whether you want a once-off special of a new series to get into.
We’ll focus mainly on free-to-air TV and freely available streaming services.
Something to get pulses racing
Ever since Game of Thrones left TV screens there have been a whole host of epic dramas hoping to replace it.
Updated / Friday, 7 May 2021
06:00 Fans of
The Snapper and
The Van are in for a treat this month when star Colm Meaney takes a trip down memory lane in a new RTÉ series celebrating author Roddy Doyle s
Barrytown Trilogy.
The three-part
Back to Barrytown begins on RTÉ One on Sunday, 16 May, with Meaney and his co-stars revisiting the fictional Dublin suburb in the company of author Doyle,
The Snapper and
The Commitments director Alan Parker passed away last July.
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Three decades after Alan Parker s movie adaptation of The Commitments became a global phenomenon, the actor will be exploring the fictional world of Barrytown, specifically the people who populated it, the real lives that inspired it and those who helped create it .
The show s synopsis reads: Back to Barrytown is a series of three documentaries that will focus on the stories, themes and characters of each of the three books, capturing the fanciful daydreams of escape and prosperity and the down-to-earth realities of family, friendship and community.
Along with Doyle and Meaney, the series will feature many of the well-known cast and crew from the film trilogy including Angeline Ball, Brendan OâCarroll, Robert Arkins, Ruth McCabe, Stephen Frears and many more.
New RTE series will celebrate The Van, The Snapper and The Commitments
Red alert! (Image: Cast of The Snapper, a 1993 Irish TV film)
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Colm Meaney will present a new three-part RTE documentary that celebrates the legacy of Roddy Doyle’s iconic Barrytown trilogy.