Rivals: The thrusting bum is intercut with spurting soap and overflowing champagne. We are in safe, if filthy, hands
Patrick Freyne: If I was in Disney+’s Jilly Cooper adaptation, someone would surely compliment my ‘magnificent column’
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BBC charity removes promo video featuring Southport murder accused
The 2018 Children in Need campaign video featured Axel Rudakubana dressed as Doctor Who
Godzilla used to be a metaphor for nuclear horror. Nowadays the monsters are metaphors for the lumbering franchises they appear in
Patrick Freyne: Monarch: Legacy of Monsters is zippy, characterful and fun, but I could do better
Is Doctor Who too whimsically British for Ireland?
With the Doctor set to embark on his next thrilling trek through time and space, there Irish links to celebrate
Good Omens: Neil Gaiman’s bromance is as silly as a vicar in a tutu – and perfect escapism
Television: Michael Sheen and David Tennant return in a second season that benefits from plenty of fun, and surprisingly gory, plot padding
TV guide: 12 of the best new shows to watch, beginning tonight
Including Million Dollar Pigeons, Dial M for Middlesbrough, David Harewood on Blackface and the return of Good Omens
BBC’s deceitful robot animals are an ethical nightmare and have made me suspicious of the humans in my life
Deceitful robots hoodwink and toy with the affections of blameless sea beasts with David Tennant’s tacit approval
Litvinenko: David Tennant captures the sense of a man haunted by his stolen future
UTV’s retelling of the murder, though well-intentioned, fails to locate the drama in the story
‘I flattered him, knowing he’d try to kiss me’: Alan Partridge interviews Steve Coogan
‘It’s the oldest journalistic trick in the book. Coogan has fallen for it hook, line and sinker’
Paul Merton: Boris Johnson stopped being funny when he became prime minister
Have I Got News For You star on a career in comedy, Boris Johnson and his Irish revolutionary grandfather
45 of the best TV shows to watch this autumn
From The Dublin Murders to The Crown, Red Rock to Ru Paul, here are this season’s best comedy, drama and reality series
Thousands of angry Christians petition Netflix to cancel show. There was just one big problem...
US Christian group condemns Good Omens show as ‘making satanism appear normal’ – but petition wrong company
Neil Gaiman on honouring Terry Pratchett’s last request: ‘You have to do this’
The writer explains how his four years of intense devotion to ‘Good Omens’ will never happen again
Tennant’s new podcast an aural delight
Actor’s offering of ‘lots of lovely people dropping by and hanging out’ works a treat
Mary Queen of Scots: Apart from Saoirse Ronan it's drab and pedestrian
Review: Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie keep us awake. The director doesn’t help
Mary Queen of Scots: ‘I was fighting to put a period in a period movie’
'Mary Queen of Scots' director Josie Rourke on her bold decisions in the historical epic starring Saoirse Ronan
Meet the Irish author who is reinventing Doctor Who
The sci-fi series’s labyrinthine mythology is no problem for Irish author Dave Rudden
Saoirse Ronan battles Margo Robbie in Mary Queen of Scots trailer
The Irish actor (24) plays Mary Stuart, who is attempting to usurp her cousin Elizabeth I
Maisie Williams: ‘I really should get a house in Ireland’
The ‘Game of Thrones’ star on her love of Ireland, the problem with stereotypes and her first feminist icon
Ferdinand review: A children’s classic gets the family-film treatment
Carlos Saldanha embellishes ‘The Story of Ferdinand’ with tried-and-tested subplots
Broadchurch review: A show that treats rape with unstinting realism and sensitivity
The detective series is a study in division,and it also asks tough questions about our approach to victims
Making a murderer with Derren Brown
Pushed to the Edge is an elaborate ruse in which unsuspecting strangers are coaxed into what they think is murder by mentalist Derren Brown. It’s an experiment. And it’s depraved.
David Tennant on ‘Jessica Jones’: ‘It’s fun to indulge the dark side of your psyche’
The former Doctor Who has left his morality in his dressing room to play the psychopathic Kilgrave in Netflix’s Marvel series
Web Log: Celebrating 100 years of general relativity
Doctor Who’s Tenth Doctor David Tennant explains Einstein theory in short film
Terry Wogan pulls out of Children in Need show
Dermot O’Leary will take over from broadcaster who cancelled due to medical advice
Television: Secrets, secrets everywhere, from Galway to fictional Denmark
Review: A BBC documentary deals with the reality of abortion. Over on Sky, ‘The Legacy’ has an emotional finale
Television: ‘Broadchurch’ rules the airwaves , while ‘Charlie’ seems all at sea
Review: David Tennant and Olivia Colman’s police drama is still a must-see – unlike RTÉ’s Charles Haughey drama
Television: Esio Trot’s perfectly pitched tortoise tale
Review: What’s not to like about Richard Curtis's adaptation of the Roald Dahl story, starring Dustin Hoffman and Judi Dench?
Television: Danish politics, German war stories and Irish builders blowing the budget
‘Borgen’ returned, with the former prime minister making new starts amid familiar, nuanced themes
Television: The bloodsucker, the barrister and the boil-encrusted bodies
There’s good reason to revamp the vampire story, and a barrister has plenty of bloodcurdling moments
Tom Hiddleston: "Becoming an actor was a very unconventional thing in my peer group"
As the one and only Loki returns to the big screen in Thor: The Dark World, actor Tom Hiddleston explains to Donald Clarke that you don’t have to go to Eton to be a good baddie
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