The news isn’t Top of the Pops, so cut out the background music

Television reviews

Simon Harris, Micheál Martin and Eamon Ryan inside the Dáil. Photo: PA

Eilis O'Hanlon

The most notable thing about Monday’s edition of Upfront with Katie Hannon (RTÉ One, Monday, 9.35pm) wasn’t anything that was said or happened on it. It was the fact that it was, like Prime Time, on straight after the news.

This is so obviously the right time to broadcast a programme such as Upfront that it’s amazing they don’t do it every week, rather than pushing it back till everyone’s getting ready for bed.