Brian Friel – Shy Man, Showman: Conventional tribute to an experimental geniusTV review: This quietly stirring documentary is a straightforward record of life and careerFri Jan 07 2022 - 01:00
Screw: Derry Girl Jamie-Lee O’Donnell goes to prisonTV review: Her first big post-Derry Girls project is as prisoner to a so far poor scriptThu Jan 06 2022 - 23:00
Operation Transformation 2022: Should the ‘triggering’ show be decommissioned?Eating disorders group seeks ‘more inclusive’ approach. Others just want the show cancelledWed Jan 05 2022 - 14:50
‘Donie O’Sullivan: Capitol Man’ could have aired only on Irish TVTV review: A film on the talented CNN reporter from Kerry felt like two documentaries in oneWed Jan 05 2022 - 12:25
‘Spouting gibberish to the opposite sex’: Channel 4 borrows the Irish mating ritualTV review: The Language of Love places British and Spanish monoglots in an Andalusian villaWed Jan 05 2022 - 06:00
Around the World in 80 Days doesn’t quite take to the skiesTV review: The BBC’s bumpy new adaptation of Jules Verne’s book may yet soarSun Dec 26 2021 - 19:30
Mrs Brown’s Boys Christmas Special: Hold the double entendres – Agnes gets earnestBrendan O’Carroll is as sincere as he is potty-mouthed in a sentimental special episodeSat Dec 25 2021 - 22:10
How streaming services have taken sword and sorcery mainstreamA decade ago the critics laughed at Game of Thrones but it launched a viewing revolutionThu Dec 23 2021 - 05:00
Emily in Paris: First it stereotyped the French. Now for the BritsTV review: Emily’s new love interest, is fish and chips and a can of lager in human formWed Dec 22 2021 - 06:00
Mare of Easttown lived up to its billing, Succession was 2021’s letdownTV highlights and lowlights of 2021: Television’s tentacles were everywhereSat Dec 18 2021 - 05:00
The Witcher: Season two brims with action, adventure and twisting, tentacled nastiesReview: Netflix has sorted out the pacing issues that sucked so much fun out of season oneFri Dec 17 2021 - 11:05
Irish dancing? It’s all about one-upmanship, says Jean ButlerTV review: ‘Steps Of Freedom: The Story Of Irish Dance’ chronicles the Riverdance effectThu Dec 16 2021 - 23:15
Voices of Ireland: Imelda May presents the Carroll’s gift shop version of Irish cultureTV review: May is charming but the cliches come thick and fast in this Sky Arts docWed Dec 15 2021 - 12:07
Succession finished on a high after a flabby season. Now it should endOne fundamental truth about the hit show – it’s a comedy until suddenly it isn’tTue Dec 14 2021 - 15:14
Kevin Whelan: ‘We were offered this million-dollar contract that we walked away from’The former Wrens songwriter on that band’s messy demise and new project Aeon StationMon Dec 13 2021 - 05:00
And Just Like That: Sex and the City sequel redeems itself with a genuinely shocking sceneContains spoilers ... Episode 1 seems unsure of itself at first. Then it gets our attentionThu Dec 09 2021 - 12:54
Landscapers: Olivia Colman murder-drama is the ghastliest show this yearTV review: A queasy farrago that’s buried its moral compass in the gardenTue Dec 07 2021 - 22:00
You Don’t Know Me is more than a Sunday night thriller. It’s engrossing, political and realTV: Compelling whodunnit draws on the lived experience of black LondonersMon Dec 06 2021 - 11:03
Michael C Hall: ‘We’ve tried to lead with the music’Dexter star on Princess Goes to the Butterfly Museum and shifting from messenger to messageSat Dec 04 2021 - 05:00
Never come between an Irish person and their 1970s bungalowTV: My Bungalow Bliss turns out to be as bog standard as the homes it sets out to transformWed Dec 01 2021 - 22:35
Hawkeye’s been missing the target. At last it’s taking offTV: The least interesting Avenger has finally perked up in Disney+’s small-screen spin-offWed Dec 01 2021 - 12:50
Nils Frahm: ‘Spotify and Apple encourage a way of listening that is only half-ass’Clubbers adore the German musician, as do classical aficionadosWed Dec 01 2021 - 05:00
‘Joe said he’d kill Rachel if he got away with it’: The capture of an Irish murdererTV: The Case I Can’t Forget calmly charts Joe O’Reilly’s arrest and trial for Rachel Callaly’s deathMon Nov 29 2021 - 22:35
The Late Late Toy Show review: If you didn’t cry a little, you must be made of LegoIt isn’t about the toys or Broadway routines, but it’s the most watched programme in IrelandFri Nov 26 2021 - 22:35
The Late Late Toy Show: Everything you need to knowDon your jingliest, jangliest elf hat. It’s going to be a jungly Late Late Toy Show 2021Fri Nov 26 2021 - 08:45
Other Voices: From small beginnings to a must-play gig for musiciansHow the founder went from scrambling to fill seats to having the biggest artists on the line-upWed Nov 24 2021 - 05:00
David O’Doherty, the anti-Tommy Tiernan, is funny by osmosisTV review: Along for the Ride with David O’Doherty, a perfect vehicle for his quirky witTue Nov 23 2021 - 16:50
A tale of two dysfunctional institutions: Fleet Street and the British monarchyTV review: It’s a fascinating mess. Thank goodness we don’t do things like that over hereTue Nov 23 2021 - 13:20
Anna B Savage: ‘I lost all my self-confidence. I just kind of crumbled’For the musician, identifying with a Sally Rooney character was a jarring revelationTue Nov 23 2021 - 05:00
I’m a C-list Celebrity… Get Me Out of North Wales!Richard Madeley is as close as it gets to real celebrity in the 21st season of the annual creep-out showMon Nov 22 2021 - 12:45
The Wheel of Time is the latest fantasy to plunder Irish culture. Are we okay with that?The Wheel of Time’s plentiful borrowings lean into a long-running fantasy clicheMon Nov 22 2021 - 05:00
Tiger King, season two: A lazy cash-grab sequel that has nothing to sayTV review: Millions of subscribers bayed for more Joe Exotic content. Netflix found a wayWed Nov 17 2021 - 08:00
Should religion be part of Northern Ireland’s ‘pathway to peace’? I’m none the wiserTV review: Mary McAleese fails to answer the central question her documentary posesTue Nov 16 2021 - 10:40
How Top Gear switched off the insults, turned on the tears, and drove to petrolhead paradiseEpisode 1 of the new series proves wrong those who say Top Gear is just for dinosaursSun Nov 14 2021 - 23:05
Idles frontman Joe Talbot: ‘A lot of the criticism of us was my fault’The British-Irish bank have been mocked as preachy punks, but they’re ready to move onThu Nov 11 2021 - 05:00
Don’t numb yourself to the callousness at Tuam mother and baby home. Stay angryTV review: For the makers of The Missing Children, this isn’t history. It’s unfinished businessWed Nov 10 2021 - 14:45
‘There’s a generation of young female artists who are all about oversharing’Singer Holly Humberstone on her ‘lockdown career’ and the influence of Damien RiceWed Nov 10 2021 - 00:00
The Outlaws: Christopher Walken isn’t doin’ enough talkin’The Hollywood star seems to have gone walkabout for much of Stephen Merchant’s comedyTue Nov 09 2021 - 17:36
Keelin Shanley’s final recordings help us think about living and about dyingTV review: Faraway, Still Close includes the late journalist’s taped messages to her childrenMon Nov 08 2021 - 22:35
Hidden Assets: An unlikely mishmash of suicide bombers, Irish gangsters and Angeline BallTV review: The Irish-Belgian-Canadian drama is Irish stew with moules-frites and maple syrupSun Nov 07 2021 - 22:30
Tamara Lindeman: ‘People have this weird moralising when it comes to climate’Weather Station singer on acting, authenticity and crisis concept behind her new lpSat Nov 06 2021 - 05:00
U2: Your Song Saved My Life – The pipe and slippers phase of the megastars’ careerThe band’s new track is like a slowed-down Beautiful Day bobbing in a huge mug of OvaltineWed Nov 03 2021 - 20:51
The emotional texture of an Irish wedding: Nerves, giddiness, joy, banalityTV review: RTÉ’s The Irish Wedding is about the event itself, and says little about marriageTue Nov 02 2021 - 00:01
For Doctor Who fans, the next five weeks could be a trial by TardisIn Doctor Who: Flux, John Bishop undergoes a body transformation worthy of Christian BaleMon Nov 01 2021 - 15:25
Kin ends with a shameless rip-off of The GodfatherClare Dunne is utterly convincing as a grieving mother turned avenging angelSun Oct 31 2021 - 22:35
Kin finale: Eight questions the last episode must resolveAfter seven sometimes thrilling, sometimes plodding weeks, season one concludes tonightSun Oct 31 2021 - 12:15
There’s no drama at John Connors’ Acting AcademyHis show about actors from marginalised backgrounds is humanity TV, not reality TVWed Oct 27 2021 - 22:11
Breastfeeding My Boyfriend: Queasy viewing of a weird pastimeTV review: Channel 4 gawps without analysis at some people with an unusual hobbyTue Oct 26 2021 - 16:44
Without Gunther, Friends would have been very differentJames Michael Tyler – more barista than actor – was recruited from a Hollywood coffee shopMon Oct 25 2021 - 15:30
Joe Lycett vs The Oil Giant: Goliath walks away unhurtTV review: Celebrity-led documentaries can be powerful, but this one fails to hit its targetMon Oct 25 2021 - 13:30
