We love TV on Newstalk Breakfast so every Monday we choose the best bits on the box this week.
Here are the top five picks:
5. The Jump which is on Channel 4 each night this week at 8pm
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- The Jump kicked off last night, but, one that listeners can view each night this week at 8pm, on Channel 4
- Davina McCall hosts the 2nd series of this winter sports themed reality show from Innsbruck Austria.
- Who are the celebs taken part? ex-England Rugby captain Mike Tindall, dancer Louie Spence, Gogglebox star Dom Parker, and TV personality Joey Essex.
- The famous ladies hitting the slopes Heather Mills, pop star Stacey Solomon, socialite Lady Victoria Hervey and Made In Chelsea star Louise Thompson are just some of the 15…
- Mike Tindall will be the first member of the Royal family to take part in a reality TV show… He is of course married to Zara Phillips the Queens Granddaughter
- Contestants will now take part in bobsleigh, skeleton, ski cross, ski jumping, parallel slalom, snowboarding and the famed air jump knock-out round
- Series one of The Jump was teared apart my TV critics but it still pulled in over 2 million viewers
- It’s good entertainment value (even for the dodgy costumes alone) and easy watching
4. Deirdre and Me: a Tribute on ITV, 7.30pm on Tuesday 3rd February
- You’ve a second chance to see this special documentary reflecting on Anne Kirkbride's 40 years on the cobbles of Coronation street
- The programme also delves into the person behind the glasses
- She really had some of the most controversial and best story lines over her 43 years on the show
- The programme looks at the life and career of the soap icon and what it was really like to play one of the Street's most memorable characters
3. Abortion: Ireland’s Guilty Secret? Wednesday 4th February BBC Three, 9.00pm
- Reporter Alys Harte shares her investigation into the abortion issue and how it divides the young people of Ireland.
- The programme follows 24-year-old Tara as she travels to England for an abortion
- We also hear from Sarah, who turned from being pro-life to a campaigner, after her first child was diagnosed with a fatal foetal abnormality.
- With unprecedented access to both pro-life and pro-choice campaigners as they take to the streets in both Belfast and Dublin, Alys reveals the extreme lengths that young people are prepared to go to in order that their voices are heard in the debate.
2. Married Behind Bars Thursday 5th February Channel 4, 10.00pm
- Documentary meeting three of brides getting married behind bars in the US
- They are among thousands who get married behind bars in the USA every year
- The happiest day of your life can involve x-ray machines and bulletproof glass.
- In 2013 over 1,800 weddings took place in prisons in California alone
- So why do so many couples agree to saying “I do” while one of them is behind bars?
- Eighteen-year-old Nancy prepares to marry her gang member boyfriend;
- ex-convict Kristen is getting hitched to fiancé Jesse who is serving five years for armed robbery,
- and in Texas, April waits for news of the eighth appeal for the release of her childhood crush, and now husband, Shawn.
- This fascinating film from Nick Leader goes right into the heart of the US prison system to find out.
1. Watch for this week just has to be The Undateables: Two Weddings and a Baby tonight on Channel 4, 9.00pm
- The Undateables has been on Channel 4 for quite a while now, it follows the dating lives of people with various disabilities and conditions
- But this current series which concludes is a special episode revisiting some of the shows most memorable characters
- The final episode in the series is a happily-ever-after catch-up with participants of the show who have now found love.
- Tourette’s sufferer Brent plans to propose to his girlfriend Challis, while Carolyne, who is paralysed from the chest down, is expecting her first baby.
- The fifth series has already been commissioned for next year.