Appetite for Distraction: Our pick of this week’s best home entertainment
Your weekly guide to the best small-screen entertainment and podcasts out there
TV Picks of the Week
Heartlands
Wednesday, 8.30pm, TG4
It’d be safe to say that Sharon Shannon did not spring Venus-like from the waters of the great river Shannon playing a button accordion, but here, in the first of a four-part series, along with her cousin Caoilinn Ní Dhonnabháin, she travels the Shannon region beginning at the source of the river in Co Cavan. Among their guests along the way are Steve Wickham and Liam Ó Maonlaí. EK