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© Warner Bros & Amazon Studios We all know the ingredients of a good heist movie. The hero or anti hero has what appears to be an impossible dream. He or she assembles the perfect team to execute that idea. Often some of the crew have to be convinced to jump out of their comfort zones and take the risk. © Warner Bros & Amazon Studios Pooling all their talent and expertise, the crew devises a smart plan to make millions and they set a date for executing it. Sometimes in the build up or on the big day, there are last minute wobbles that threaten to derail everything. And while the heist sometimes ends in failure, in some films they succeed. Ben Affleck's 112 minute film 'Air' isn't officially a heist movie. It's about how Nike, against all odds, pulled off one of the most lucrative celebrity partnerships in the history of sport. © Warner Bros & Amazon Studios And yet, 'Air' somehow tells the story as if it were a heist film. The man with the plan i

© Britbox, RTE1 & ITVx It's been available on Britbox since May of last year.  Now the streaming service's co-production with ITV and RTE 'The Dry' has gradually made its way onto those channels' terrestrial television and streaming platforms. Conceived by playwright Nancy Harris, it's a caustic tale of a recovering alcoholic navigating a very messy family life in Dublin. It's also wickedly funny. © Britbox, RTE1 & ITVx Roisin Gallagher plays Shiv Sheridan, a thirtysomething woman who returns to her family home from London supposedly for her granny's funeral but who actually stays for much, much longer. Shiv is hardly welcomed, though, back to the family home with open arms. Her heavy drinking in the past has burned a lot of bridges. But living with her dysfunctional family is hardly conducive to an easy recovery. © Britbox, RTE1 & ITVx Shiv's parents, Pom Boyd's Bernie and Ciaran Hinds' Tom Sheridan have a rather unorthodox marri

© ITV & Virgin Media Ireland So here's another ITV cop series but what's the angle in this one? Well, 'Redemption' is set in Dublin and is about a Merseyside cop discovering she has grandkids she wasn't aware of. A co-production with Virgin Media Ireland, it stars Belfast actress Paula Malcolmson as the Scouse cop Colette Cunningham who has to give up her job tackling drug dealers in Liverpool after being contacted by Gardai about a dead body in Dublin. Even though she is named as the next of kin, Colette doesn't recognise the name of the deceased until Gardai confirm it is her daughter Stacey who walked out on her 20 years ago. © ITV & Virgin Media Ireland Arriving in the Irish capital and identifying Stacey's body, Colette finds herself having to raise two teenage grandkids she never knew she had - Abby Fitz's Cara Lockley and Evan O'Connor's Liam. Of the two, Cara is the hardest to forge a bond with - resenting her grandmother's pr

Singer, songwriter, actor and rights activist, New York born Harry Belafonte was more than just a versatile entertainer. He was a leader and role model for civil rights and humanitarian activists around the world and was admired for taking strong positions on race relations, Apartheid, poverty, education and health issues. As a singer, he dabbled in folk music, calypso, gospel music, African, Jewish and Irish music, the blues and showtunes. But he also helped raise awareness of other talented artists from across the world. As an actor, he would work on Broadway and on movies even in his nineties, rubbing shoulders over the years with the likes of Otto Preminger, James Mason, Joan Fontaine, Joan Collins, Robert Wise, Sidney Poitier, John Travolta, Robert Altman, Emilio Estevez and Spike Lee. Born in Harlem in 1927, his parents hailed from Jamaica and were of Scottish and Dutch Jewish ancestry. For a while, Harry was raised from the age of five by his grandmother in Jamaica,  returning t