TV: The losing end of a winning streak

We Won The Lotto (RTÉ One) was an engaging documentary, chiefly due to two participants whose lottery wins didn’t see them buying holiday islands, eating their dinner in swimming pools or being ogled by predatory nurses

Carmel and Billy Comer in We Won The Lotto (RTÉ One)

Reviewed This Week

We Won The Lotto: RTÉ One

Spiral: BBC Four

Maltese: The Mafia Detective: Channel 4

Damnation: Netflix

I was at the launch of the National Lottery in 1987. It was a breakfast affair in the Royal Hospital in Kilmainham, with kedgeree and champagne, a foretaste of the life you might be living if you actually won one of the big prizes that would later come on stream. At first it ...