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* If you’re enjoying Aisling Bea’s work opposite Amy Huberman in Finding Joy, keep an eye out early next year for the Channel 4 series Happy AF. e Kildare comic has created the role of Áine, a woman piecing her life together following a nervous breakdown. Sharon Horgan (above), currently starring opposite Kerry Condon in Women on the Verge, will take on the role of her sister, Shona. * e RTS NI Programme Awards for 2018 celebrate the range of talent working in Northern Ireland’s creative industries. Taking place in Belfast on November 15, and hosted by Coleraine actress, Bronagh Waugh, the categories include Children’s and/or Animation, Entertainment, Features and/or Factual Entertainment, Drama, Current A airs and Scripted Comedy. Among the shows in the running this year are Derry Girls (pictured), Beauty Queen and Single, Rachel Allen: A Cook’s Adventure, Searching for Shergar and Dave Allen at Peace. * Top Gear is back in the headlines following the news that when Matt LeBlanc hands in his driving gloves at the end of the next season, motoring journalist and racingdriver Chris Harris will be joined by not one but two celebrity petrolheads, former England cricketer (and League of eir Own captain) Freddie Flinto (pictured); and comedian Paddy McGuinness. e next series of Top Gear will start early in 2019, before the all-new line-up of Paddy, Freddie and Chris gets their motors running for Series 27, later in the year.