Tag: Sky Atlantic

• TV Viewpoint: Colin Firth plays real-life murder accused in new Sky Atlantic mini-series

  

  This article was first published in The Tuam Herald on 11th May, 2022. WILL the appetite for true crime dramatisations never be sated? I’d have thought that by now interest would have waned, but studios are still churning them out in the hope that grizzly minded viewers will tune in. Well, there must be life […]

  aoifebburke

  May 21, 2022

  TV

  Colin Firth, Eipidéim, Now TV, Sky Atlantic, TG4, The Staircase, Toni Collette, True Crime

• TV Viewpoint: Post-pandemic speculation and modern thriller satire are this week’s TV picks

  

  This article was first published in The Tuam Herald on 02 February, 2022. YOU WAIT for one genuinely captivating TV shows to come along for what feels like an eternity, then two come along at once. Last week I wrote about Yellowjackets and raved about its ability to evoke deliriously rabid curiosity from its growing […]

  aoifebburke

  May 20, 2022

  TV

  Amazon Prime, Emily St. John Mandel, Kristen Bell, netflix, Now TV, Sky Atlantic, Station Eleven, The Woman in the House, The Woman in the house across the street from the girl in the window, Yellowjackets

• TV Viewpoint: Everyone’s Talking About Yellowjackets

  

  This article was first published in The Tuam Herald on 22nd January, 2022. EVERY so often a television show comes along that slow-burns into a phenomenon. It can happen when the budget is big, the showrunners are ambitious and experienced, the actors are established as safe bets. It can also happen on a wing and […]

  aoifebburke

  May 20, 2022

  TV

  Amazon, As We See It, Christina Ricci, Julianne Lewis, Melanie Lynskey, Now TV, Sky Atlantic, Tawney Cypres, Yellowjackets

• TV Viewpoint: Deadwater Fell and Hausen

  

  A devastating housefire in an idyllic village raises questions over whodunnit A BEARDED David Tennant can only mean one thing; murder is afoot! In Broadchurch he played a surly detective investigating the death of a young boy, in Criminal: UK he was a suave doctor being questioned over the murder of his step-daughter. In Deadwater […]

  aoifebburke

  April 7, 2021

  TV

  Channel 4, Deadwater Fell, German TV, Hausen, Horror, RTE One, Sky Atlantic

• TV Viewpoint: Your Honor

  

  Bryan Cranston charms Tubridy before exploring the underbelly of New Orleans THE latest in the of a series of celebrities dialling in via Zoom for a ten-minute interview with Ryan Tubridy from the comfort of their home was Bryan Cranston, who had a pleasant chat with the talk-show host on last Friday’s Late Late Show. […]

  aoifebburke

  March 5, 2021

  TV

  Bryan Cranston, Ryan Tubridy, Sky Atlantic, The Late Late Show, Your Honor

• TV Viewpoint: The Good Lord Bird and Duiseacht

  

  An Anti-Slavery Campaigner Wreaks Havoc in Bleeding Kansas WHILE the whole world has been taken hold of the virus-which-shall-not-be-named, a spin-off epidemic has taken hold of the US. It’s not an infection, but a movement that’s been a long time coming. A spark in the middle of the pandemic put fuel to the fire and […]

  aoifebburke

  November 26, 2020

  TV

  Dochas, Duiseacht, Ethan Hawke, Sky Atlantic, TG4, The Good Lord Bird

• TV Viewpoint: A Plastic Whale and The Crystal Maze

  A shocking news story that went viral last year was the inspiration for a one off documentary last Wednesday on Sky Atlantic. Cuvier’s whales are not regular sightings around Norway’s bays, so when one was spotted acting very strangely in Bergen it wasn’t long until locals became concerned with its behaviour. It appeared that it […]

  aoifebburke

  June 29, 2017

  TV

  A Plastic Whale, Channel 4, Sky Atlantic, The Crystal Maze, tv