Maybe that’s why Room To Improve: Dermot’s Home (RTÉ One, Sunday, 9.30pm) doesn’t quite hold together. Well, we’ll never know because Bannon’s family are glaring absentees from the first of two episodes. The property is down the road from his old house – though I had to look this up as Room To Improve doesn’t tell us. However, a void squats in the heart of Dermot’s Home, which insists on framing Bannon’s struggle as that of one man against impossible odds. His family presumably didn’t fancy being reduced to glorified exhibits in the reality TV zoo and that is an entirely reasonable stance.

Source: The Irish Times January 05, 2020 22:30 UTC