Not quite sure of what the best picks of the box are for this week? Or will you regret that you didn't record 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.
Picks of the Week: Republic of Telly, Monday, RTE2, 9.55pm
The IFTA award-winning Republic of Telly returns to RTÉ2 with presenter Kevin McGahern ripping up the telly for your entertainment, along with brand new member of the team, comedian Joanne McNally.
Ireland's longest running comedy show will continue to showcase new talent, biting TV reviews and hilarious celebrity sketches.
Film of the week: Whiplash, Friday, Sky Movies Premiere, 9.45pm
A promising young drummer enrolls at a cut-throat music conservatory where his dreams of greatness are mentored by an instructor who will stop at nothing to realize a student's potential.
And if you don't have Sky, there's Mud, Tuesday, Film4, 9pm
Two young boys encounter a fugitive and form a pact to help him evade the vigilantes that are on his trail and to reunite him with his true love.
Online pick of the week: RTE Player, The Meaning of Life with Gay Byrne
The presenter talks to author and academic Richard Dawkins about his life, beliefs and values.
Other picks
The Last Kingdom, Thursday, BBC2, 9pm
Adapted from Bernard Cornwell’s best-selling series of books “The Saxon Stories,” by BAFTA nominated and RTS award-winning writer Stephen Butchard, The Last Kingdom combines real historical figures and events with fiction, re-telling the history of King Alfred the Great and his desire to unite the many separate kingdoms into what would become England.
Set in the 9th century AD, many of the separate kingdoms of what we now know as England have fallen to the invading Vikings, only the great Kingdom of Wessex stands defiant under its visionary King Alfred the Great (Dawson). It is the last kingdom.
American Horror Story - Hotel, Thursday, Fox, 10pm
Twisted and addictive, Ryan Murphy’s hugely popular, American Horror Story, returns and this time you’re in a hotel.
Lady Gaga checks in as Elizabeth the wealthy bisexual hotel owner and it’s reported that she wastes no time striking up a love triangle with Donovan (Matt Bomer, Magic Mike), and Tristan Duffy (Finn Wittrock, Unbroken)
Bull, Wednesday, Gold, 10pm
Bull
is described as "a comedy with a unique and quirky sense of humour". The three-part series will focus on Bull, a man who attempts to run an antiques shop, aided and hampered in equal measure by his team of dysfunctional staff.
The show has been created by Gareth Gwynn and John-Luke Roberts. As writers, they have previously worked on a number of radio shows, including Here Be Dragons, The Now Show and The News Quiz.
A Different Class, Thursday, RTE1, 10.15pm
Two-part observational documentary about a new school in the west Dublin suburb of Ongar, one of the country's most ethically diverse areas. The film follows preparations for the opening of Hansfield Educate Together Secondary School as staff positions are filled, decisions are made - should the school have a uniform? How will they accommodate pupils who don't speak English? - and finally as the doors are opened to welcome the first students.
Psychedelic Britannia, Friday, BBC4, 10pm
Documentary exploring the rise and fall of the most visionary period in British music history. Five kaleidoscopic years between 1965 and 1970 when a handful of dreamers re-imagined pop music.
When a generation of British R&B bands discovered LSD, conventions were questioned. From out of the bohemian underground and into the pop mainstream, the psychedelic era produced some of the most ground-breaking music ever made, pioneered by young improvising bands like Soft Machine and Pink Floyd, then quickly taken to the charts by the likes of the Beatles, Procol Harum, the Small Faces and the Moody Blues even while being reimagined in the country by bucolic, folk-based artists like the Incredible String Band and Vashti Bunyan.
The Sex Change Spitfire Ace, Saturday, Channel4, 8pm
Sex Change Spitfire Ace: Secret History is the extraordinary story of the unique relationship between two of the most remarkable pioneers of the twentieth century: Michael Dillon, the world’s first woman to become a man and Roberta Cowell, Britain’s first man to become a woman.
It caused a press sensation in 1950s Britain when the story broke, but was ultimately to end in tragedy.
Now, sixty years later the amazing untold medical history of the first sex changes can be told. It has an astonishing twist: Michael Dillon, a medical student, illegally carried out the castration of Robert Cowell to enable him to become Roberta.
