ALSO SHOWING IN 2017
11. King Arthur: Legend Of The Sword
Charlie Hunnam plays the boy who would be king but it’s Jude Law as Vortigern, right, who catches the eye.
12. Handsome Devil
This homegrown comedy-drama from John Butler (The Stag) about two boys at a rugby-mad school was well received at the Toronto Film Festival and it has its Irish premiere at the Audi Dublin International Film Festival in February.
13. Suburbicon
Life goes horribly wrong for the Lodge family when their home is violently invaded. Matt Damon and Julianne Moore star in a film directed by George Clooney, from a screenplay co-written by the Coen brothers.
14. The Kidnapping Of Edgardo Mortara
Mark Rylance plays Pope Pius IX in the story of a young Jewish boy who was forcibly removed from his family to be raised as a Christian. Plus, at the end of the year comes Star Wars Episode VIII. Expect to see more of Luke Skywalker and, of course, the Skelligs...
15. Striking Out
Starts tonight RTE One 9.30 Starring Amy Huberman and Neil Morrissey, this four-part drama follows the tumultuous life of Dublin-based solicitor, Tara Rafferty (Huberman). We meet her on her hen night when she discovers her fiancé in bed with a colleague. Things can only get better? See The Magazine for more.
16. The Great Irish Sell Off Monday
RTE One, January 9 Journalist Ian Kehoe investigates how a handful of international megafunds have bought billions in Irish debt, giving them control of countless businesses, homes and swathes of development land.
17. Body Shopping
RTÉ One Spring Bringing fresh meaning to the new year/new me mantra, Dr Ciara Kelly looks at the growing demand for cosmetic surgery and examines the risks as nine people go under the knife.
18. Red Rock
TV3, January 9 The award-winning drama returns with Patrick Bergin who joins the cast as Jim Tierney, grandfather of Detective Rory Walsh. Bergin says he will bring ‘danger and mystique to Red Rock’. Ooh, yes please.
19. This is Jobstown
TV3, January In this follow-up to controversial ratings smash Darndale - The Edge Of Town, cameras spend a year with the residents of one of Tallaght’s most notorious areas. Unemployment, antisocial behaviour and crime are rampant – expect stories of hope and despair, triumph and disappointment.
20. Sugar Free Farm TV3, this Tuesday Seven celebrities face up to their dire eating habits and submit to a radical diet and work to earn their grub. 21. SS-GB
BBC1, mid-Feb Sam Riley and Kate Bosworth star in an alternative-history thriller set in Nazi-occupied London. Douglas Archer (Riley) is a detective working under the SS who faces the dilemma of collaborating with or joining the British Resistance.
22. Guerrilla
Sky Atlantic, April A cracking cast is led by Freida Pinto and Idris Elba in a drama about political activism and radical militancy in the Seventies.
23. Fearless
UTV, spring Legal thriller starring Helen McCrory as a solicitor who runs into powerful forces. Homeland writer Patrick Harbinson describes it as set in ‘the crash zone, where law and politics collide’. The cast includes Michael Gambon and comedian John Bishop.