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Hang Ups Channel4.com, until October 12, episodes 1-6 Anything with Stephen Mangan (Adrian Mole in the BBC series Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years, as well as many excellent performances since) and Katherine Parkinson (Humans, The Honourable Woman) is going to be worth watching. This comedy series was also written by Mangan and is an adaptation of Lisa Kudrow’s Web Therapy.

Mangan plays Dr Richard Pitt, a troubled therapist whose group therapy sessions fall apart, leaving him with heavy debts, and who decides to start an online practice from his home via webcam. Parkinson is his super-sorted wife (who doesn’t know about the debts and has a job involving her flying off to business meetings and leaving Richard in charge of the house and teenage kids). Richard E Grant is Leonard Conrad, Richard’s own therapist, and Charles Dance is Pitt’s father, an overbearing alpha male who has left Pitt with plenty of hang-ups of his own.

An ensemble cast including Harry Lloyd, Monica Dolan, David Bradley, David Tennant and Jessica Hynes pop up as patients and improvise through sessions, spilling a selection of neuroses, inappropriate life goals and traumatic incidents. Who Do You Think You Are? RTE Player, until October 23 Here it is the turn of former US Ambassador Samantha Power (left) to dig deep into the past and find out where she came from. Power, a close advisor to President Barack Obama, describes how she grew up in Dublin, before moving to the US with her mother when she was nine.

But it’s the revelations about her maternal great-grandfather, John Duffy, that are really arresting. He was employed by the RIC (Royal Irish Constabulary), but became an agent for rebel Irish forces in 1917, and may even have been responsible for changing the course of history. His game-changing role is revealed via firsthand testimony Duffy gave in 1951 to the Bureau of Military History.