I miss Daniel Craig already. Can the next James Bond really be Gen Z?
Amazon MGM Studios is searching for a young actor to take over as the spy
Marilyn Monroe at 100: What her films reveal about the woman behind the myth
Decades after her death, she continues to attract speculation and fantasy, but her performances are neglected
TV goes for gold with Wordle and Golden Elevator gameshows – but will it hit the jackpot?
No idea is too odd for television amid plans for scaled-up word puzzle, a Big Break reboot and a ‘psychological battlefield’ in a lift lobby
Israel through to Eurovision final after shouts of ‘stop the genocide’ during song
Noam Bettan will compete on Saturday night in the boycott-hit 70th year of the song contest, held in Vienna
Eurovision 2026: When is it on, who is boycotting and could Israel win?
Tensions and disunity haunt the song contest as it marks its 70th anniversary in Vienna
Eurovision 2026: Israel almost won in 2025. Could a new mass voting exercise see it triumph?
The final 20 minutes of last year’s final, in Basle, was excruciating. The same could happen in Vienna next week
Elizabeth Strout: ‘It’s a deeply sad time in the US’
The author returns with a new character, a despairing history teacher Artie Dam, in The Things We Never Say, overshadowed by Trump
Kate O’Connor on her gruelling seven-event sport: ‘It’s so tough on a woman’s body’
The Dundalk heptathlon star loved ‘running around like a headless chicken’ at youth competitions. Now she’s aiming to reach the top of the podium this summer
Late Late Show: Uncertainty over renewal of Patrick Kielty’s contract
RTÉ declines to comment on the renewal of the presenter’s contract
Ben Lerner: ‘I want us to think of the book as another hand-held device’
Fiction such as Ben Lerner's keeps us connected to reality in ways that even functioning smartphones cannot
You wait ages to see your 1990s music heroines live, then two play Dublin at once
Sleeper at Opium and Miki Berenyi Trio at the Grand Social proved the potency of seeing long-loved artists for the first time
Saturday Night Live UK is funny and fresh – but that doesn’t mean it has a future
Sky’s version of the US sketch-show institution is halfway through its first series. Will it be back for a second?
Trump’s World Cup has a strong whiff of the last days of Rome
With a host nation at war and ‘Fifa’ rendered as a swear word, escapism will be hard to find this summer
New National Concert Hall boss: ‘I hope to be here for the grand reopening’
New chief executive Nigel Flegg hopes the NCH’s long-planned redevelopment will start in 2028 and transform it into a ‘cultural mother ship’
Be more Ryan Gosling: Why AI and the media need us to be curious
News outlets are built on curiosity. Now they’re having to defend the kind the powerful don’t like














