{"id":511263,"date":"2026-05-31T05:17:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T05:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/511263\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T05:17:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T05:17:14","slug":"tv-guide-10-of-the-best-new-shows-to-watch-starting-tonight-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/511263\/","title":{"rendered":"TV guide: 10 of the best new shows to watch, starting tonight \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pick of the weekMuseum of MeSunday, RT\u00c9 One, 8.30pm<\/p>\n

If you were to create a museum of your life, what artefacts would you put on display? Me, I\u2019d probably have a cutting of my first gig review for The Irish Times (Alison Moyet), my dog-eared gatefold sleeve copy of Led Zep<\/a>\u2019s fourth album and my ticket stub for Tin Machine in the Baggot Inn (now, where did I leave the bloody things?). In this new series, six celebrities have been tasked with curating their own one-off exhibition of objects that have personal meaning for them, whether it\u2019s marking a milestone in their lives or giving a glimpse into the person behind the public persona. These mementos will be on display for one night only in Fota House, and viewed by family, friends and colleagues. No pressure. First up is RT\u00c9<\/a> broadcaster Bryan Dobson<\/a>, who chooses keepsakes from a 40-year career on Irish telly. <\/p>\n

Highlights Southbank at 75: You Are HereSunday, BBC Two, 6.10pm<\/p>\n

London\u2019s biggest arts centre is celebrating 75 years at the centre of the city\u2019s cultural life, but what\u2019s the best way to mark this milestone? Stage a huge dance spectacular, of course, telling the story of Britain\u2019s youth culture over the past three-quarters of a century. This epic terpsichorean extravaganza has been co-created, designed and directed by Gareth Pugh, Carson McColl, Paulette Randall and Danny Boyle. It features a cast of hundreds, hotstepping it through the eras of rock \u2019n\u2019 roll, northern soul and disco, soundtracked by the music of Shirley Bassey, The Verve, Bronski Beat and EsDeeKid. <\/p>\n

\"DancersDancers of Boy Blue, who feature in Southbank at 75: You Are Here. Photograph: Southbank Centre\/Pete Woodhead Wild ConamaraSunday, RT\u00c9 One, 6.30pm<\/p>\n

If you thought you knew Connemara<\/a>, prepare to be re-educated. Wildlife presenter Eoin Warner takes us on a trip through the waters and the wild, revealing the true beauty of the region in this new two-part series. It\u2019s a place where sea and landscape blend beautifully. On his journey, Warner encounters grey seals, basking sharks and corncrakes, whose population is making a welcome return thanks to conservation efforts. He visits abandoned islands and sees the wildlife up close, and also visits MacDara\u2019s Island, site of the annual seafarers\u2019 Mass. <\/p>\n

\"EoinEoin Warner reveals a region’s true beauty in Wild Conamara, a new two-part series. The Mother of All ConsSunday, BBC Two, 9pm<\/p>\n

When teenager Megan Bhari launched her Believe in Magic charity in 2010, helping sick children make their dreams come true, she found willing believers across the world. Despite suffering from a brain tumour, brave Megan worked tirelessly to give seriously ill children the experience of their lives, with help from her mother, Jean. Soon, celebrities including One Direction were getting on board, and Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street were opening their doors. But some parents of sick children felt something wasn\u2019t right. When the charity raised funds for expensive treatment for Megan in the US, the parents did some investigating and found Megan\u2019s \u201ctreatment\u201d involved lengthy stays in a luxury hotel in Disneyworld in Florida. They didn\u2019t realise, however, that a much darker story was about to unfold. This documentary tries to unravel the truth about Megan\u2019s medical condition \u2013 was her illness faked or was something even more sinister going on?<\/p>\n

\"JeanJean O’Brien Jean holding up a dress in The Mother of All Cons. Tip ToeSunday, Channel 4, 9pm<\/p>\n

Alan Cumming and David Morrissey are the stars of this tense new thriller from Russell T Davies, the man behind Queer As Folk and It\u2019s a Sin<\/a>. Leo (Cumming) lives in a suburb of Manchester and runs a bar in the town\u2019s gay village; he and his long-time next-door neighbour Clive (Morrissey) have become good friends, and Leo gives Clive a job at his bar and a key to his front door. But soon a feud develops between the two and homophobia rears its ugly head. Meanwhile, the wider gay community is feeling threatened as increased intolerance forces many back into the closet. \u201cI used to walk into a room and go \u2018ta-dah!\u2032” says one character. \u201cNow I tiptoe in.\u201d <\/p>\n

\"AlanAlan Cumming and David Morrissey in Tiptoe on Channel 4. The VardysTuesday, UTV, 9pm<\/p>\n

Remember the \u201cWagatha Christie\u201d scandal? Who could forget? It started as a social media row between footballers\u2019 wives Colleen Rooney and Rebekah Vardy, as Rooney accused Vardy of selling stories about her and her family to the tabloids, and ended up in the courts, as Vardy unsuccessfully tried to sue Rooney for libel<\/a>. We haven\u2019t heard much from Vardy since the Wagatha affair, but in this new reality show, we follow Rebekah, husband Jamie Vardy and their four kids as they decamp to Italy \u2013 with a camera crew in tow \u2013 to start a new life away from the prying lens of the paparazzi. Former Leicester star Jamie \u2013 now 38 \u2013 has signed for Serie A underdogs Cremonese, so both he and Rebekah have a lot to prove \u2013 to themselves and to their detractors. <\/p>\n

Beckham: In Ten PicturesThursday, BBC Two, 9pm<\/p>\n

There have been some iconic photos of David Beckham through the years \u2013 the one with the sarong, the one where he scored from the halfway line \u2013 and this documentary looks back at the Manchester United legend\u2019s brilliant life and career through 10 defining images. From the moment he raised his hands to the sky 30 years ago after his incredible goal against Wimbledon from his own half, Beckham has used his image to build a globally recognised brand that has made him a multimillionaire, and helped turn him and his wife Victoria Beckham into Britain\u2019s most famous power couple. This programme builds a story around 10 unforgettable Becks moments captured on camera over the years. Previous programmes in the series have featured Vladimir Putin, Nelson Mandela, Muhammad Ali, Amy Winehouse and John Lennon.<\/p>\n

\"DavidDavid Beckham as a boy with his teammates at Ridgeway Rovers. Photograph: Lawrence Lustig StreamingNot Suitable for WorkFrom Tuesday June 2nd, Disney+<\/p>\n

Five twentysomethings are trying to make it in the Big Apple, fuelled by coffee, shared ambition and a tendency to wisecrack at every opportunity. Is this our new Friends fix? Mindy Kaling\u2019s new comedy series is set in Manhattan\u2019s affluent Murray Hill neighbourhood, and follows the misadventures of a handful of young professionals, but don\u2019t expect much hanging around in coffee shops musing on modern life \u2013 these friends are too busy trying to scramble up the corporate ladder to sit around listening to someone singing Smelly Cat. Ella Hunt, Avantika, Will Angus, Jack Martin, Nicholas Duvernay and Jay Ellis star in this workplace comedy of errors. <\/p>\n

\"ConstanceConstance Wu in Not Suitable for Work. Photograph: Disney Michael Jackson: The VerdictFrom Wednesday June 3rd, Netflix<\/p>\n

The battle for Michael Jackson\u2019s legacy continues with this three-part docuseries taking us behind the scenes at the singer\u2019s trial on charges of child molestation. The series features interviews with people who were directly involved with the trial, including jurors, eyewitnesses and key people in the courtroom. Unlike OJ\u2019s trial, MJ\u2019s trial wasn\u2019t televised, but the documentary does feature lots of news footage from the time, including scenes outside the courtroom, and a bizarre direct-to-camera appeal for impartial judgment from Jackson himself. Twenty-one years after Jackson was acquitted, the movie biopic Michael, which charts Jackson\u2019s rise to become the world\u2019s biggest pop star, has become a box-office hit. But this series focused on the downfall of the one-time King of Pop. <\/p>\n

Clarkson\u2019s FarmFrom Wednesday June 3rd, Prime Video<\/p>\n

Jeremy Clarkson must be doing something right down at Diddly Squat Farm, because he\u2019s made it to a fifth series without the whole venture going porkbelly up. But a new threat to the farm comes in the form of a British government budget that\u2019s not exactly setting the farming community jumping for joy \u2013 in fact, they\u2019re hopping mad. Clarkson has plans to bring Diddly Squat into the digital age with some high-tech innovations, but this will entail his trusty right-hand man Kaleb venturing outside Britain for the first time in his life. Crumbs. <\/p>\n

Cape FearFrom Friday June 5th, Apple TV<\/p>\n

The original 1962 film starred Robert Mitchum and Gregory Peck; the 1991 remake was directed by Martin Scorsese and starred Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange and Juliette Lewis. We can\u2019t seem to stay away from the cape: now comes a new TV thriller series starring Javier Bardem, Amy Adams and Patrick Wilson, and executive produced by Scorsese and Steven Spielberg. Bardem is bad guy Max Cady, who has been released from prison after 17 years and is looking for revenge. Adams and Wilson play the married lawyers Anna and Tom Bowden. When they learn that Anna\u2019s former client is now free, they realise that their lives \u2013 and the lives of their family \u2013 are now on a knife edge and that nowhere is safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pick of the weekMuseum of MeSunday, RT\u00c9 One, 8.30pm If you were to create a museum of your…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":511264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[265],"tags":[5074,17635,18,117,19,17,38731,25129,43977,128,11261],"class_list":["post-511263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-connemara","tag-david-beckham","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jeremy-clarkson","tag-michael-jackson","tag-rebekah-vardy","tag-tv","tag-victoria-beckham"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116667499028808606","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}