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RTE Player, until Dec 11, episodes 1&2 There was always going to be a lot of noise around this as Stuart Carolan, who wrote Taken Down with novelist Jo Spain, has serious form via Love/Hate.

The story begins with Abeni Bankole (Aissa Maiga) who comes to Ireland with her two children as a migrant via a traumatic journey on which her husband dies of chemical burns, and is put into Direct Provision for “a few weeks, or months”.

Eight years later, she is still there, living in one room in a busy centre with her now-teenage son Isaiah (Aaron Ado) and his younger brother Oba (Sean Edo).

She tries to balance the educational, social and emotional needs of her children from the confines of a damp room, with no privacy, no autonomy, no cooking facilities and no indication of any resolution.

When the body of a young Nigerian girl is found across the road from the centre — and another girl is missing — gardai, led by Inspector Jen Rooney (Lynn Rafferty, left) arrive with questions, none of which the asylum seekers are keen to answer or even engage with.

Brian Gleeson plays the lackadaisical manager of the centre, Wayne, who rapidly turns out to be sinister as well as slovenly, while episode 2 sees the arrival of Jimmy Smallhorne as Gar, a Dublin gangster with connections to the asylum centre that are far too close. This is Dublin the way few of us have seen it. Inside Tatler Virgin Media Player, episode 1 This is a behind-the-scenes look at Britain’s oldest magazine, and possibly the poshest.

Tatler has been “sending dispatches from the frontline of privilege since 1709”, according to the narrator.

Which in practice means a small team of well-connected journalists, Debrett’s Etiquette and Modern Manners in hand, chronicling the antics of a small number of Britain’s most privileged.

This lacks the personality and tension of the hit 2016 series Inside British Vogue, but is entertaining in a ‘did they really...?’ kind of way.