TV & Radio

First-time host offers a quieter start to Christmas as he slowly, yet steadily, puts his own stamp on the programme

Television: What’s in store for the 2023 edition with first-time host Patrick Kielty

Emer McLysaght: Let’s get Patrick Kielty the biggest water gun on the market and give him free reign

I’d love to see Diana’s ghost go unseen to a George Michael gig or warn people about Prince Andrew

Radio: Today FM host is unconvincing as a tech goods showman, while Sean Moncrieff can’t stay serious for too long

Television: The ultimate victory prize is more than €4 million, which means players are very much in it to win it

Television: RTÉ's zippy science show on a subject with which we will all have to reckon, sooner or later

The beeche trees were planted around 1775 to give a sweeping entrance to the Gracehill House estate

Television: After a stodgy first episode, viewers will hope the figurative gloves come off sooner rather than later

Your guide to the best sport on television this week

And so it comes, the big Christmas litmus test for new Late Late Show presenter Patrick Kielty

Late Late Show’s new host is about to present the biggest show of the season – and has to do it amid reports of tensions behind the scenes

Podcast review: Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart politics show is kind of a balm, and pretty chummy, but it’s definitely serious

Coimisiún na Meán says move by Dublin’s Q102 to simulcast presenter’s Virgin Radio UK show will not undermine media plurality

Former RTÉ presenter says he intends to move to the UK and that agent Noel Kelly ‘is the best in the business and always was’

We rate this season’s advertisements for weepiness, capitalism, gluttony and liturgical correctness

Claire Byrne seems blindsided by leaked news of Kevin Bakhurst’s ‘strategic vision’

Former RTÉ presenter’s scandal-rocked rollercoaster year leaves him ‘desperately excited’ to be at Rupert Murdoch owned station

Television: Mark Little returns to RTÉ in a show about climate change in Ireland that is both dull and unintentionally side-splitting

Tubridy said on the Chris Evans Breakfast Show that he had been ‘mugged by God in a hoodie’ - a phrase given to him by the late Sinéad O’Connor

Television: The first half of the final season lands on Netflix today. There’s no denying it’s enjoyable – but it’s also borderline tawdry

Kevin Bakhurst says planned 50% increase in spending on independent commissioning ‘won’t happen overnight’

Attempt to rebuild trust and woo younger audiences central to broadcaster’s strategy

Interview: Director general on plans for its Dublin and Cork bases, whether Fair City should be outsourced and his relationship with Government

Joe Duffy, Claire Byrne and Miriam O’Callaghan’s earnings to drop as Kevin Bakhurst outlines plan to shed 400 people from workforce

Director general tells staff that State broadcaster is looking to buy new studios in Cork

Leo Varadkar says public service broadcasting cannot be let fail but aid is subject to RTÉ ‘publishing certain reports, making certain reforms and implementing certain recommendations’

Laura Slattery: Director general’s tricky task was to share details of a leaked plan headlined by a ‘big number’ of job losses

Broadcaster’s review into Brand comes after four women alleged in joint investigation comedian and presenter sexually assaulted them between 2006 and 2013

Jamie Lynn Spears, JLS’s Marvin Humes and Channel 4′s First Dates’ Fred Sirieix will also join line-up

Broadcaster’s new strategic plan acknowledges it must ‘progressively reduce costs and overheads’, with sale of part of Donnybrook campus under consideration

Colette Camden’s thoughtful documentary on Sky avoids true crime sensationalism

Your guide to the best sport on television

From new Dublin-based drama Northern Lights to Louis Theroux’s interview with reformed hellraiser Pete Doherty

The Limerick podcaster and author on privacy, his autism diagnosis, biodiversity loss, his love of writing and feeling out of touch now he’s in his late 30s

Peter Morgan is open about his Netflix blockbuster on the British royal family being an interpretation of history. It’s an approach with many critics

Podcast review: The US comedian’s meaders through subjects from soup to Ireland to his answering machine are a little bit ASMR, a little bit guided meditation

Ruffo first came to the public’s attention as a contestant on the musical reality show The X Factor

Patrick Freyne: The Buccaneers is about a bunch of wild and crazy girlbosses who like to party, as Edith Wharton no doubt would have described her novel

Radio: The Newstalk host is perplexed by the diplomat’s unbending stance on a conflict that also dominates RTÉ Radio 1′s Drivetime