Monday’s TV tips
In ‘Dáil on the Dole’ four T.Ds spend time with people in their constituencies who are surviving on social welfare.
Ordinary Irish people do not believe their representatives in the Dáil have any idea about the issues that rule their everyday lives and T.Ds think they work more hours than anyone on the planet.
This is their chance to walk a mile in each other’s shoes.
In episode two, Fianna Fail T.D. Willie O'Dea meets Limerick native Jamie O'Sullivan.
Jamie is homeless. He is trying to leave behind his chequered past and make a fresh start away from the drugs and petty crime that led to his alienation from his family and friends.
He is making every effort possible to find a home and get a job but his best doesn't seem to be good enough.
The last episode of the series sees DJ-turned-actor and presenter Reggie travel to Siberia with international model scouts who are on the hunt for new recruits.
His first stop is the area’s capital of Novosibirsk, where he explores how girls as young as five are training to join the industry by learning how to walk, pose, diet and apply make up.
He also questions how likely the hopefuls are to succeed, investigates the pitfalls of the business and finds out what lives the successful youngsters are leaving behind.
The final programme focuses on the practitioners on Harley Street who provide complementary and alternative therapies to their clients.
May Lyang has been trying to have a baby for five years and visits Dr Zhai, who offers traditional Chinese medicine for fertility, while identical twins Luba and Irena Chmil attend the clinic of kinesiologist Dr Michael Culp to fend off the exhaustion of daily life, and American financial consultant Alex Adler has intravenous vitamin infusions to maintain peak performance. Last in the series.
For many of us, watching this series is an eye-opener.
The final episode features people resorting to extreme behaviour simply to survive, some of their activities sound like a joke, although no-one is laughing.
All the young folk featured are struggling to keep a roof over their heads, including Si and Nicola, who camp out in the hills above Merthyr and live off food discarded by others.
Simon appears to be luckier, he’s holding down a zero-hours contract, although sharing a bedsit with his brother is far from ideal.
Finally, Chrissy either sleeps on the floor or on top of a washing machine in a shed. It’s mind-boggling, but sadly, it’s also true.
Philip Boucher Hayes and Grainne Seoige with reconstructions, CCTV footage and live studio appeals to look for information from the public, to help with Garda investigations.
Each month this long-running, popular programme uses reconstructions, CCTV footage and live studio appeals to look for information from the public, to help with Garda investigations.
Calls to the programme have helped lead to numerous convictions over the previous ten series.
Charlotte Crosby from Geordie Show is the special guest star this week as “Jen of the Week”.
Charlotte helps Bernard and Kevin get on top of social media and gain followers on Instagram and twitter. She teaches them tricks for selfies, and shows them how to make your life more fabulous online.
Charlotte also appears in the new programme “Don’t Tell the Widow” where Kevin and Bernard organise her husband’s funeral but they’re keeping a very big secret from her!
The Ultimate Fighting Champions returns to Montreal in Canada as UFC Flyweight Champion Demetrious Johnson takes on the top contender Kyoji Horiguchi in the night’s main event.
(1992) Exploring the harsh realities of frontier life, this Western sees Clint Eastwood, who directs and stars, deliver the performance of his career.
He plays retired gunslinger William Munny, who reluctantly straps on his six-shooters once again to feed his children by helping a young assassin track down two cowboys who attacked a prostitute.
The film won four Oscars and is arguably the finest Western ever made; the script had floated around Hollywood for years, but Eastwood deferred making it until he thought he was old enough to play the lead character.
He makes good use of some rugged terrain to depict the Wild West as a brutal, unforgiving place.
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Frances Fisher and Richard Harris.
