Bachelor's Walk

A low budget, cinema verite look at the emotionally impoverished lives of three city centre bachelors. It was funny, melancholy and much loved.

Pure Mule

Great small town drama with emotional depth and drunken sexy bits.

The Blizzard of Odd

A slice of weekly weirdness from Colin Murphy, it irreverently dissected Irish pop culture when it still meant something to do so.

The Apprentice

Fawning, sycophantic teacher's pets scrabble for Bill Cullen's attention. This is, despite essentially cogging a British format, bizarrely entertaining. Although TV3 is often maligned for its cheap home produced content, it's now a hugely important outlet for Irish telly makers!

Podge and Rodge

Mickey, wank, tits, etc.

The Panel

Sometimes it features insightful critique couched in genuinely witty banter and other times it's a laboured boys' club. It's a good format though!

Fáilte Towers

Brian Dowling, Michelle Heaton, Claire Tully, Don Baker and others run a hotel together. Minor celebrities clean poo from a toilet bowl? Whilst I commend this as a metaphor for the show, I really didn't want to watch it.

The Frontline

Populist leader Pat "Che" Kenny leads a pitchfork wielding mob against the robber-barons who ran this country into the ground (the bastards). Good stuff.