DailyEdge.ie rounds up the TV shows that you’ll be tweeting about tonight and talking about tomorrow.
The John Pauls (RTÉ One, 9.35pm)
John Paul became one of the most popular name in Ireland after Pope John Paul’s 1979 visit. This documentary features 12 such John Pauls, along with Karol Maria Ryan whose parents named her after the Pope’s birth name of Karol Jozef Wojtyla.
The Town (Virgin Media One, 10.00pm)
Documentary showing a year in the life of Portlaoise, Ireland’s fastest-growing town, and revealing the town’s most charismatic characters.
Livin’ with Lucy (Virgin Media One, 9.00pm)
Lucy Kennedy moves in with Gemma Collins, The Only Way is Essex star, to help her clear out her wardrobe and work in her shop.
Everyone’s talking about: Olivia Munn being ostracised for calling out a sexual offender
Olivia Munn has been left out in the cold by the director and cast of her new film. Olivia alerted 20th Century Fox, the production company of The Predator, that an actor she shared a scene with was a registered sex offender.
The actor in question, Steven Wilder Striegel, was jailed for six months after pleading guilty to enticing a 14-year-old girl into a sexual relationship via the internet.
Fox deleted the scene, but Olivia now says that Shane Black, the director of the film, hasn’t spoken to her as he was a friend of Steven’s. Olivia also says that her cast members, mostly all male, have not been supportive of her except fo 11 year old actor Jacob Tremblay.
This Oliva Munn situation is uncomfortable AF. And her co-stars abandoning her are terrible. How can you not support your costar who didn't want to be on screen with a pedophile?
— WildIrish (@LilMsRayOfLight) September 9, 2018
I woke up this morning thinking of Oliva Munn, and how all of her male co-stars deserted her after she called out the sex offender in the #ThePredator cast.
— Court (@courtdanee2) September 9, 2018
(NME)
Or flick over for …
- Louis Theroux: Dark States – Murder in Milwaukee (RTÉ 2, 10.35pm) Louis examines racial tension and gun crimes in the US city of Milwaukee, where the homicide rate is 12 times above the national average.
- Profits Before Pupils? The Academies Scandal – Panorama (BBC One, 8.30pm) In England, more than 7,000 schools have been turned into academies run by private trusts. What’s to stop the people in charge from profiting from children’s education?
- Bridge & Eamon (RTÉ 2, 9.00pm) The sun is out, but disaster strikes when Bridge and Eamon dcide to use cooking oil as suntan lotion.
- Black Earth Rising (BBC Two, 9.00pm) As a child, Kate was rescued from the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide and was brought up in Britain, but now working as a legal investigator she takes on the prosecution of a controversial militia leader.
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