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Conor McGregor arriving at the High Court in Dublin in November. Photo: Collins
The summer is over, the weather has turned, and the autumn TV schedules are upon us. As always they heavily feature foreign TV formats, like the Traitors, that we try our best to put our own Irish spin on. The broadcaster pays a fat fee to the originator, and we, the viewers, get something we’ve probably already seen but now mixed with milk and water, or Moate and Waterford.
The greatest and cheapest foreign format of all is always missing, however. Cameras in the courtroom. There are no Real Housewives, no Love Island hopefuls, no stars dancing who can compare, in terms of drama, to even a single evening of Court TV.