What to watch this week: Shedding new light on the Vikings in Ireland, catching up with Dr Eva and a new series of The Supervet

Fire and Blood, Sunday, RTÉ One, 6.30pm

Top 12: As comedian Joanne McNally finds love via Raya, we list a dozen other celebs who have tried and tested the app

12 Emma Hernan

Love Island 2022: How Davide and Ekin-Su won, plus dodgy jumpsuits and second place jitters

Listen, I'm not gonna lie, I totally thought Gemma and Luca would be in fourth place. In fact, I wrote three different intros for Damiya, Tashandrew, and Ekinde in case one of them won, but nobody factored in this pair being in the final two couples. Neither did Twitter.

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How sun-kissed Neighbours became our good friends in ‘one TV set per house’ Ireland

The Ramseys, the Robinsons, the Kennedys, Bishops, Rebecchis and the Nangles. Just some of the names that lived from No. 22 to No. 34 Ramsay Street over the last four decades.

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Sheena McGinley Opinion Love Island relationships’ red flags were more obvious this series than ever before

This year’s Love Island has been like no other. From allegations of coercive behaviour to more than 2,000 “bullying” complaints from viewers, this has been a controversial series.

Top 12: What do Rosanna Davison, Eve Hewson and Ruby Walsh have in common? We list the talented kids of Ireland’s famous faces

12 Phelim Drew Son of the mighty Dubliners’ frontman, the late gravel-voiced Ronnie Drew, Phelim is a noted actor. Having kicked off his career in the Oscar-winning movie My Left Foot, a flurry of screen roles followed, the latest of which saw him portray perturbed priest Fr Liam Plunkett in Fair City. Naturally, he enjoyed making illicit eyes at Carol, the soap’s resident siren.

What to stream this week: Zoey Deutch is Not Okay, The Sinfluencer of Soho and Esports comedy 1Up

Love Island: How Andrew and Tasha finally have Twitter smitten, plus 'final dates' commence!

Tonight's Final Date schmoozerama (part one) was suitably epic. Even more so in light of Iain Stirling ripping the proverbial out of the production team last night for stapling grapefruit to bits of twine by way of decoration for the girls' Baby Day brunch.

Love Island: In the wake of the Talent Show, we do a countdown of the most challenging challenges

Not challenging for the Islanders, but for viewers. For someone who suffers from severe bouts of second hand embarrassment, and already must endure their children’s annual school talent show, I resent having to subject myself to Luca murdering Breaking Free. But first...

Love Island: Did we really need four bombshells with only 10 days left?

Eh, hard no. Especially when they all just speak in identikit bumper stickers like every other contestant to darken the villa door this year. But first...

Top 12: From Austin Butler’s Elvis Presley to Angela Bassett as Tina Turner, actors who excelled playing icons

12 Aaron Taylor-Johnson in Nowhere Boy (2009) You might know him as Kick-Ass, but others will always see him as a young John Lennon. With a cheeky persona masking a deep-seated well of loss and longing, Taylor-Johnson not only brought Lennon’s teen self to the silver screen, but he also learned how to play the banjo, the guitar, and the harmonica in order to give his rendering more gravitas.

Love Island: Movie Night fallout brings double standards to the fore

Lads. Never have I shouted at a screen as much as I have this season of Love Island. Why? Mostly due to the double standards on display.

Love Island: Why do people think Paige should have left with Jacques? Plus, Adam picks in tonight's recoupling...

When I say "people", I'm mostly referring to Luca. There he was on Tuesday night's episode, thoroughly AGHAST at the fact Jacques was leaving the villa "alone." Luca even went so far as to say he would've left with Jacques himself only he had to stick around for Gemma (coupled with possibly future lucrative sponsorships, plus the joy of getting paid for lounging around a villa for weeks on end).

Top 12: With Squid Game: The Challenge greenlit by Netflix, we revisit a dozen of the best TV survival shows

12 Hunted Arguably a sinister variation of Challenge Anneka, this fugitive-inspired offering came relatively late to the survivalist viewing party back in 2015 and still proves to be a Channel 4 staple to this day. Best watched through Gogglebox.

Sheena McGinley: ‘I take umbrage with Love Island’s Adam Collard's past behaviour being rewarded with more prime time exposure’

Honestly, haven't Paige and Danica been through enough than having to contend with Love Island's answer to Nasty Nick?!

Love Island best bits: Was this year’s Casa Amor the craziest ever?

In the wake of Thursday night’s switch or stick Recoupling, was this year's Casa Amor the craziest ever?

Love Island best bits: Are famous peeps just booking their kids into Love Island like summer camp? Plus, Dami’s dramatic fall from grace

And there we thought it'd be Ronan Keating's second-born, model Missy, that would've sashayed into the villa at some point. Who knows, that may still happen; especially as it doesn't appear Jack is tickling any of the girls' fancies in Casa Amor, despite him being one of the more likable, genuine souls rocking around in there. His Gaelic hue – which serves to highlight the flow of that tattoo – unfortunately won't be appreciated given their preoccupation with all-over body tans and dark hair. Still, one can dream...

What to stream this week: Only Murders in the Building returns, Chris Pratt fights dark forces and The Boys are back in town

‘Do you have shopping centres in Ireland?’ and other Love Island best bits

Is Jacques essentially Jake from last year? Other Best Bits – Indiyah asking if Ireland "has shopping centres", plus Andrew and Tasha in the bottom three

Who causes more drama in the villa – Ekin-Su or Dami? Plus other Love Island talking points

Now, three weeks into proceedings, certain behavioural traits are coming to the fore.

Love Island Best Bits: From Antigoni’s ‘lion’ locks to Luca’s welcome for Charlie, the Islanders are giving us no shortage of entertainment

It’s that time of the season when a blonde bombshell, usually named ‘Charlie’, enters the villa, to woo the girls with his posh accent and somewhat bland personality.

Love Island Best Bits: Jacques’s toe gets airtime, Dami does his ‘ting’ and six islanders are up for the chop tonight

This time two weeks ago, a flurry of fresh-faced souls with undoubtedly decent Instagram numbers entered the villa.

Love Island Best Bits: Jacques attacks, Dami does us proud and Davide sprouts a personality

The Love Island landscape can change immeasurably in the space of a few episodes… Since our last Best Bits; Liam left of his own accord on Friday night after being rebuffed by Gemma, the two new girls Afia and Ekin-Su, and by the powers that be in the editing suite. Who are Afia and Ekin-Su? Well, the former has since been dumped from the Island and Ekin-Su has been grafting pretty much anything with a pulse since entering the villa.

Love Island best bits: ‘Damber’, ‘Ikeyah’; and Bish schools ‘Snake’ Andrew on boy code

Between Gemma and Davide's aversion to reference the age thing, Liam now left to waft around the villa like a deflating balloon, Dami and Amber's fledgling flirt fest, plus Luca's double standards/incredible array of tattoos – this new series has been pretty damn compelling thus far. There, I said it.

Top 12: From Round The Bend and Scratch Saturday to Live & Kicking and CD:UK, the best Saturday morning TV shows

Hosted by Blue Peter alumnus Sarah Greene and then BBC continuity presenter/gopher enthusiast, Phillip Schofield, this Saturday morning fare had all the bells and whistles one would expect of a kids’ show during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Among its featured items, we had such hilarity as a ‘Growing Pains’ agony uncle segment; musicians doorstepping fans courtesy of ‘Live Line’; plus a ‘Press Conference’, in which audience members asked politicians questions... No wonder Schofield kept a packet of cigarettes under the desk.

Sex talk, questionable tattoos and ‘Bish’ the fishmonger: here are the best bits from episode one of Love Island

It’s that time of year again, folks, when Love Island enthusiasts take to Twitter to offer commentary on the first show.

Love Island 2022: 10 reasons to look forward to the new series as it kicks off tonight

From tonight, social media feeds, TV programming and several million column inches will be rammed full of Love Island-related fodder for the next eight weeks.

Top 12: From Gwyneth and Winona’s spat to Kim Cattrall’s feud with SJP, we list some legendary celebrity rows

12 Kathy Griffin & Anderson Cooper Did you know that, prior to radio and TV host Andy Cohen, Kathy Griffin used to be Anderson Cooper’s wingwoman for CNN’s annual NYE Times Square coverage? Then, in 2017, the comedian did a photo shoot depicting her touting a fake decapitated head of a certain serving president. This didn’t fit into CNN’s balanced news ethos. After 10 years of service, Griffin was relieved of her NYE duties — and, reportedly, by extension, her friendship with Anderson.

What to stream this week: Ewan McGregor returns as Obi-Wan Kenobi and Call My Agent! gets the remake treatment

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10 of the best ‘Wagatha’ moments so far: ‘Chipolata’ throwbacks, the phone lost at sea and a Davy Jones riddle

Phones lost on the high seas, drink-driving incidents, staged photo ops, alleged affairs, wiped WhatsApp messages – we knew the ‘Wagatha Christie’ libel trial would be a cringe-inducing insight into the weird, wonderful and often woefully unpleasant world inhabited by the wives of Premier League footballers – but it’s fair to say few onlookers were expecting this level of drama.