On our RADAR
STREAMING: Extraordinary: Season Two, Wednesday, Disney +
Our gal Mairéad Tyers is back for a second season of the hit comedy about being young and finding your feet in a confusing world, when all you’ll ever be is ‘ordinary’. Season two picks up where season one spectacularly left off, following Jen (Máiréad Tyers) on her power journey as she enrols as a client at the power clinic. Jen soon discovers, however, that finding her power isn’t going to be as easy as she had hoped; and things in the rest of her life aren’t smooth sailing either.
STREAMING: Full Swing: Season 2, Netflix
The cameras are back for a second season, as this immersive documentary series follows a diverse group of professional golfers – both returning favourites and new faces – on and off the course across a relentless season of competition on the PGA Tour, including all four of golf’s major championships, the Masters, PGA Championship, US Open, and The Open. And this season brings even more drama, with an unexpected proposed agreement between the PGA Tour, the DP World Tour and the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia.
STREAMING: Dead Hot, Prime Video
This new six-part comedy-thriller stars Bilal Hasna and BAFTAnominated Vivian Oparah, who lead a cast including Penelope Wilton, Peter Serafinowicz and Rosie Cavaliero. Set in Liverpool, the series follows best friends Elliot and Jess, played by Hasna and Oparah respectively, as they grapple with grief, love, trauma and identity in their mid-twenties. The story takes a twist when the pair find themselves in a mysterious tangle involving Elliot’s new romantic interest, Will, and a person claiming to be Jess’s brother.
PODCAST: Keep it Tight with Deirdre & Emma
Each Wednesday, those Queens of Irish comedy, Deirdre O’kane and Emma Doran sit down together and discuss what us delighting them, bewildering them, enraging them, and everything in between. No topic is out of bounds for the dynamic duo, from the highest brow to the lowest pelvic floor.
Radio: The Artificial Human, Monday, BBC Radio Four
Every day, we read something new about Artificial Intelligence – it’ll take our jobs, it’ll teach our kids, it knows more about us than we do ourselves, but how much of that is hype, and how much is, or will be reality? In this new series, Aleks Krotoski and Kevin Fong set out to ‘solve’ AI. Or at the very least, to answer our questions on all things artificial-intelligence-related. These are the questions that really matter to us – is AI smarter than me? Could AI make me money? Will AI save my life or make me its slave?