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Best of the box: Tom Dunne's TV highlights

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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13.38 20 Jan 2015


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Best of the box: Tom Dunne's TV highlights

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13.38 20 Jan 2015


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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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Coming out of the Curve, Monday, RTÉ1, 9.35pm

This particular show went out before the show went to air last night but it can still be caught up with on the player and given the statement from Leo Varadkar over the weekend, it's particularly timely.

Donal Óg Cusack asks how much life both in Ireland and beyond has changed for gay people since the de-criminalisation of homosexuality. He talks to sports people about `coming out' and interviews a man who claims he has been `cured' of his homosexuality.

 Catastrophe, Monday, Channel 4, 9pm

Anything with Sharon Horgan surely gets our vote and this new series has been receiving some rave reviews since it aired. Although it is already gone to air, this will still be available on 4od.

An American man and an Irish woman fall in love with each other in London while navigating the choppy waters of their increasingly complicated lives. A very early pregnancy will certainly make everything that little bit more interesting.

The Eichmann Show - Tuesday, BBC2, 9pm

To mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, BBC have pushed out quite a few interesting documentaries over the next week.

Fact-based drama telling the story of American producer Milton Fruchtman and blacklisted documentary film-maker Leo Hurwitz, who overcame enormous obstacles to record the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, one of the major organisers of the Holocaust.

Footage of his trial in Jerusalem in 1961, was broadcast in 37 countries. This really looks like a great pick for the week.

Surviving the Holocaust - Freddie Knoller's War, Thursday BBC2, 9.30pm

In another hard-hitting documentary, Freddie Knoller talks about his experiences of being a Jew in Austria before and during the Second World War. Accompanied by extensive archive footage, he relives his past, reflecting on his family life in 1930s Vienna, the German annexation of Austria and his flight to Belgium. 

The Hidden Killers of the Tudor Home - Tuesday, BBC4, 9pm

The Tudors have become extremely romanticized in popular culture and with the launch of Wolf Hall this week, it's possibly only right that we look at some of the hidden killers in Tudor homes.

Suzannah Lipscomb explores the hidden dangers of properties built in the Tudor period by looking at the new style of multi-room homes that had previously only been afforded by aristocracy, which were now being constructed by the emerging wealthy classes. 

Wolf Hall, Wednesday,BBC2,9pm 

It's been a long time coming but the new series adaptation of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall will hit BBC screens this week.

Henry VIII is desperate to end his marriage to Katherine of Aragon, but Cardinal Wolsey's efforts to persuade the pope to grant an annulment are fruitless - much to the dismay of Thomas Cromwell, a lawyer dependent on Wolsey's patronage.

Anne Boleyn is rumoured to be the King's new mistress but she doesn't trust Cromwell and so he attempts to win her over.


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