RTÉ boomerangs back to home turf

Television for Baby Boomers, Generation X, Millennials, and even The Pope’s Children

Brendan Courtney with the Kennedy family from Clondalkin in This Crowded House (RTÉ One)

Reviewed this week

This Crowded House: RTÉ One

Generation What?: RTÉ 2

Acceptable Risk: RTÉ One

There’s nothing new under the sun, or in television. Last week saw Brendan Courtney kick off a new series,This Crowded House(RTÉ One), in which he tries to solve the accommodation problems of some of the country’s estimated 460,000 adults still living with their parents. Like the four who live with us.

Some 11 years ago, with the ...