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Girls, Golden Globes and chicken wings are in this week's top TV picks

5. Golden Globes Red Carpet Special, followed by The Golden Globes Awards, RTE, Tonight (Monday) ...
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Girls, Golden Globes and chicken wings are in this week's top TV picks

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5. Golden Globes Red Carpet Special, followed by The Golden Globes Awards, RTE, Tonight (Monday) from 8.10pm

  • If you didn’t stay up until 4am watching the awards never fear... coverage and highlights from the Golden Globes, which happened last night in Hollywood are on RTE 2 8.10 tonight.
  • So the first program is all about the fashion from the night, The best and worst dressed from the night, Amal Alamuddin made her red carpet debut, some fantastic fashion to drool over….
  • Tina fey and Amy Poehler at the helm again this year for the ceremony.
  • Role on the Oscars February 22nd….

4. He Left Me for My Mother & Other Betrayals, Channel 5, Wednesday 8.00pm

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  • A bizarre new series from Channel 5 focusing on unfortunate victims of infidelity
  • Ok, it’s not the classiest title for a TV show, but, there’s one good reason to watch this: it features an exclusive TV interview with Rhodri Giggs, brother of Ryan.
  • He hit the headlines in 2012 when he discovered that his wife had been having an eight year affair with the ex-footballer.
  • Rhodri reveals the shocking truth about how he found out that his wife had been playing away from home with his own brother. The pair haven’t spoken in three years.
  • The whole saga introduced us to the term 'super-injunction'.

3. The Great Chicken Wing Hunt PBS America, Sky, Tuesday 9.00pm

  • From the ridiculous to the... ridiculous
  • A whole programme dedicated to the origins of the chicken wing 
  • Matt Reynolds embarks on a hilarious road trip to find the world's best Buffalo chicken wing.
  • He travels 2,627 miles and tastes 284 varieties of wings

2. Call the Midwife, BBC 1, Sunday (18th Jan) 8pm

  • The new (fourth) season is set to be just as emotional as the previous three
  • Call The Midwife is based on the memoirs of Jennifer Worth, who was a district midwife in London’s East End during the 1950s
  • The BBC has already commissioned a fifth series and a Christmas 2015 special
  • In the opening episode of the show’s fourth season, newly-qualified nurse Barbara Gilbert arrives to take up her position at Nonnatus and is extremely anxious to prove herself. But a late night drinks’ party proves disastrous for her and she is upset at having got off on the wrong foot

1. Girls, Sky Atlantic, Monday 10.00pm

  • Back for a welcome fourth season, Lena Dunham’s astute and painfully honest comedy finds Hannah enrolled on a writers’ course at the University of Iowa.
  • The rest of the gang, including Hannah's boyfriend Adam have remained in New York – a situation which proves tricky for the pair.
  • Meanwhile, in the Big Apple, Marnie is involved in an ill-advised relationship with a musician and Shoshanna tries to find a new job.
  • Fans will be happy as a fifth series of girls has been given the go ahead.

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