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Best of the box: Prepare to be scared!

Not quite sure of what the best picks of the box are for this week? Or will you regret having not...
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12.41 13 Oct 2015


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Best of the box: Prepare to be...

Best of the box: Prepare to be scared!

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Not quite sure of what the best picks of the box are for this week? Or will you regret having not recorded something during the week when everyone is suddenly talking about it?

Fear not, Tom Dunne has you covered.

Sue Murphy joined Tom to pick out the best of the box this week and there really is a lot of great TV picks.

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Pick of the Week: The Returned, Friday, More4, 9pm

The extrememly popular French series finally makes a return (get it?) afer three years and we can assure you, everyone is delighted that it will be back.

Six months after the flooding of the valley, only a few inhabitants have decided to remain in the hope of finding their loved ones taken by the Horde. Still pregnant with Simon's baby, Adele has a fainting spell and is taken to hospital where the staff decide to induce labour. Meanwhile, Richard Berg, an expert tasked with finding the causes of the flood, crosses paths with Toni, who has returned from among the dead. French supernatural thriller, starring Clotilde Hesme and Gregory Gadebois.

Film of the week - The Runaways, Channel4, Friday, 1am

This film follows two friends, Joan Jett and Cherie Currie, as they rise from rebellious Southern California teens to rock stars of the legendary group that paved the way for future generations of all-girl bands. They fall under the Svengali-like influence of rock impresario Kim Fowley, who turns the group into an outrageous success and a family of misfits. With its tough-chick image and raw talent, the band quickly earns a name for itself and so does its two leads: Joan is the band's pure rock 'n' roll heart, while Cherie, with her Bowie-Bardot looks, is the sex kitten.

Online pick of the week: Man on Wire, Netflix

A look at tightrope walker Philippe Petit's daring, but illegal, high-wire routine performed between New York City's World Trade Center's twin towers in 1974, what some consider, "the artistic crime of the century."

Other picks

Brent Pope Inside Out Thursday RTE1, 10.15pm

Rugby pundit Brent Pope reveals his passion for `outsider art' - pieces made by people with no formal training and often living on the margins of society. It's an interest he brought from his native New Zealand, and has continued to pursue here, and as he now plans to stage the country's largest exhibition of outsider art, he travels the country meeting some of the artists behind the work.

River, Tuesday, BBC1, 9pm

John River is a brilliant police officer whose genius and fault-line is the fragility of his mind - a man haunted by the murder victims whose cases he must lay to rest. A man who must walk a professional tightrope between a pathology so extreme he risks permanent dismissal, and a healthy state of mind that would cure him of his gift.

The Truth about Breaking London, Tuesday, RTE2, 10pm

The TV presenter explores the modern Irish emigrant experience, recalling how she coped with moving to London as she neared the age of 40.

The Apprentice, Wednesday, BBC1, 9pm

It's promising to be tougher than ever...

Alan Sugar begins his 11th search for a new business partner, offering the hopefuls a £250,000 investment in a new start-up company. This year, Claude Littner replaces Nick Hewer as Lord Sugar's new advisor and `eyes and ears' alongside Karren Brady. 

Jonathan Ross Show, Saturday, UTV Ireland, 10.15pm

The host returns to welcome another batch of celebrity guests, including Vin Diesel, star of the upcoming movie release The Last Witch Hunter, and Olympic and world champion Jessica Ennis-Hill.


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