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Court filings cast new light on Irish crime boss’s dealings with big promoters and relationship with champion fighter Tyson Fury

Entertainment group bounces back with film business offsetting hurricane-hit theme parks

Including The Kardashians, Apple Cider Vinegar, Reacher, Zero Day, A Thousand Blows and more

Plus: Imma cafe operator departs over contract changes; former Ponzi schemer takes up golf; and Patagonia wants to shut the world out

TV Highlights Jan 18-24

Progressive principles held an iron grip on big-budget US entertainment in Donald Trump’s first term as US president. Did that serve those principles well?

Accusations against Gaiman include claims of sexual assault, sexual misconduct and coercion

Jon Hill reveals investigators were contacted by people affected by Say Nothing, the Disney+ series that includes scenes portraying final hours of Jean McConville and Joe Lynskey

What to watch when it’s too cold and icy to go out? Try It Follows, The Thing, The Fly, Roman Holiday, Up, Uncle Buck and more

Including American Primeval, The Rig, Severance, Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action and Goosebumps: The Vanishing

Including The Traitors, The White Lotus, Zero Day, Your Friends & Neighbors, The Walsh Sisters and The Bear

It was a challenging year for some listed companies and a record year for CEO departures

The animation is horrible. The voice work is annoying. The plot can be hard to follow

Patrick Freyne on the 2 Johnnies, Rivals, Say Nothing, Baby Reindeer and television trends of the past 12 months

Never mind Disney’s classic cartoons. Its dull origin story of Simba’s father is closer to those pseudo-storytelling live-action TV shows from the 1960s

The film-maker’s big moment was almost eclipsed when La La Land, not Moonlight, was announced as best picture. Now his Lion King prequel is about to occupy Christmas

With its mix of larger-than-life faux rage in the ring and genuine connection with fans, it’s not hard to understand the huge popularity of WWE – and it means big business, too, for Netflix

Theatre: This thrilling Cameron Mackintosh-Disney show capitalises on PL Travers’s original story, which has so much more to offer than the films

The glory days of streaming are over, but TV has never been more unpredictable

In the News podcast

Dollar signs are lighting up eyes all over Hollywood after Moana 2 - yes, you read that right - blew Thanksgiving apart

The tragic 19th-century Paris novel weaves a rich and morally diffuse cast of characters beyond Quasimodo. But the real hero is the symbolic cathedral itself

Including Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, Squid Game season two, Beast Games, Harry Potter: Wizards of Baking and One Hundred Years of Solitude

Planet Business: Disney’s pay discrimination settlement, Warren Buffett’s children, and companies issuing profit warnings

The film’s best scenes lean into the chemistry between Auliʻi Cravalho’s Moana and Dwayne Johnson’s Maui

Nine-part series Say Nothing deals with abduction and murder of Belfast mother by Provisional IRA in December 1972

There’s a burble of excitement at this intimate preview of scenes and songs from the Sherman brothers musical

With profit jump of 39%, Bob Iger, CEO lauds ‘one of the best quarters in the history of our film studio’

The marketing communications group grew its net profit to more than €4m last year and has expanded again in 2024

Television: heartening to see two actors in their 70s fronting thriller where age is not played as punchline

The voices of seven other crew members who kept diaries while on the Endurance also feature in the documentary

Including Bad Sisters season two, Say Nothing, Senna, Countdown: Paul vs Tyson and more

Patrick Freyne: Cruising takes on an alternative meaning in this medical melodrama, with Joshua Jackson visiting multiple ports of call

Conversations with Parents podcast with Jen Hogan: In this episode Hollywood actor Victoria Smurfit talks about how her children are coping with their mother’s steamy role in Rivals

Patrick Freyne: If I was in Disney+’s Jilly Cooper adaptation, someone would surely compliment my ‘magnificent column’

The best news, analysis and comment from The Irish Times business desk

The streaming market leader missed a trick by not having Rivals on its platform, but it does like to make the odd pop at its actual rivals

Television: Why is sex meant to be so funny? Perhaps we should ask the British

Including Disclaimer, Rivals, The Last Days of the Space Age, La Máquina and Citadel: Diana

September 15th-20th: From the origin story of child prodigy Mozart to Colin Farrell as the Penguin