Brian Bowe

Freelance culture journalist and filmmaker

RTÉ Cult Classics: How No Disco reshaped Irish music TV

Watching clips of No Disco (1993-2003) today, at a time when our music choices are at the mercy of almighty streaming algorithms, I'm reminded of the dying art of curation.

RTÉ Cult Classics • 08 Jul

RTÉ Cult TV Classics: Hands celebrated Ireland's crafts & customs

Think you know a blackberry stitch from a herringbone weave, the four Bs of beekeeping, or how to trap an eel using a handful of twigs? No worries if not – with this show, you'll be an old hand in no time.

RTÉ Cult Classics • 25 Jun

RTÉ Cult TV Classics: Pat's Chat - meet the mad hatter of kids TV

The late, great Pat Ingoldsby wore many hats throughout his career – both literally and figuratively.

RTÉ Cult Classics • 27 May

RTÉ Cult TV Classics: David O'Doherty's magic Modest Adventures

Winner of the top prize at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, a beloved presence across UK panel shows, and a bestselling children's author to boot – David O'Doherty has achieved just about everything in the funny business

RTÉ Cult Classics • 19 May

RTÉ Cult TV Classics: Wanderly Wagon is a psychedelic fever dream

As part of my ongoing mission to declutter my parents' house, I recently dropped off a dusty stack of DVDs at CeX, the cherry-red tech trade-in megastore whose name has been making us smirk since 1992.

RTÉ Cult Classics • 12 May

RTÉ Cult TV Classics: A Scare At Bedtime traumatised a generation

Listen up, ye scuttering gobsheens!

RTÉ 100 • 21 Apr

RTÉ Cult TV Classics: When Bachelors Walk met Celtic Tiger Dublin

Airing on Network 2 from 2001–2003 (with a Christmas special in 2006), Bachelors Walk became one of RTÉ's biggest wins of the early 2000s...

RTÉ Cult Classics • 14 Apr

RTÉ Cult Classics: How Fade Street put reality TV in Vogue

A reality series following the romantic and professional lives of a group of twentysomethings in Dublin, Fade Street (2010-2011) was the show we loved to hate.

RTÉ Cult Classics • 08 Apr

RTÉ Cult Classics: Paths to Freedom blazed a mockumentary trail

As RTÉ celebrates its 100th anniversary, we're celebrating Irish TV's cult classics - the unsung gems that over the decades have won their way into the hearts and minds of Irish viewers.

RTÉ Cult Classics • 31 Mar