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TV Editor Tonights top TV tips include a profile of writer Colm Tóibín, Kate Winslet stars in new drama Mare of Easttown, theres a documentary about Derry City, and Mark Kermode takes a look at the Oscars . . . Pick of the Day Colm Tóibín - On Memory’s Shore, 9.35pm, RTÉ One Heres a profile of the author Colm Tóibín in which he reflects on his childhood in county Wexford and reveals his path to becoming a writer after his time at UCD and time spent abroad in Barcelona. He also discusse...

Ackley Bridge with Kayla (Robyn Cara) and Fizza (Yasmin Al Khudhairi) returns for a new series with plenty of new faces Ackley Bridge (C4, 6pm) THE Yorkshire-set school-based drama is back for a new run, but some things have changed. For a start it’s broadcasting each weekday for the next fortnight, and in a tea-time rather then primetime slot. We’re promised several fresh faces too, who we’ll be getting to know over the course of ten episodes. Among them is mixed race pupil Kayla, who ...

BBC One Different League: The Derry City Story The story of a community that needed a break and how its football club, exiled for 13 years, was brought back from the dead. Show more The Brandywell was one of the poorest areas in Europe and home to Derry City Football Club. In the shadow of the civil rights movement and the Troubles, the club managed to keep playing - until the team bus of Ballymena United was caught up in the violence, taken away and burned. Derry City FC was ba...

The documentary-style feature is called Different League- the Derry City Story and is the work of film producer Guy King. Originally from Glenarm in County Antrim, Mr King moved to Hatmore Park in Derry as a youngster before making his home in London. He was part of the huge Red and White Army that accompanied the Candystripes around Ireland in the mid-to-late 80s. Different League tells the background to Derrys expulsion from the Irish League days and how they burst onto the League of Ireland ...