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HBO’s longest-running comedy draws on humour in everyday life but dialogue is mostly improvised

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

Netflix may survive our streaming cull. But a reckoning is coming

Cable network has been searching for new head since Chris Licht’s ousting in June

Declan Lowney shortlisted for Ted Lasso while final season of Succession dominates with 27 nods

Who thought this hollowed-out cringe fest was a good idea?

Brianna Parkins: When you are poor or working class, you spend a lot of mental energy and money trying not to look like it

Television: Jesse Armstrong’s dark dramedy about the billionaire Roy family ends with a flurry of body blows

Before the last episode of the megasatire drops, we ask: Will Roman die? Is Tom Wambsgans poised for victory? What’s next for Greg?

When studios and streamers skimp on the screenwriting process, everybody is short-changed

Is there a downside to tying a property to the most loathsome charachters?

Kara Swisher digs into the creative cloices and narrative twists as the hit show unspools its final series

Planet Business: Succession’s Manhattan real estate, a Netflix catch-up and the bold royal plan to ‘let them eat quiche’

HBO’s adaptation of the Sony PlayStation game has been cited as a reason regulators should approve Microsoft’s swoop on Activision Blizzard

Including The Sopranos, Only Murders in the Building, Alice in Borderland, The Last of Us and Secret Invasion

The video game’s mix of melancholy, melodrama and post-apocalyptic dread has been faithfully transposed to TV in HBO’s new adaptation

Like the majority of White Lotus characters, some have had trips that were less than tranquil

In what was ‘maybe’ a peak year for production, some shows triumphed, some disappeared and others wouldn’t stay dead

Patrick Freyne: The Too Hot to Handle hunks have been lured to an island where they’ll lose a $200,000 prize if they have sex

Mike White, The White Lotus’s creator, writer and director, and Jennifer Coolidge, one of its most memorable stars, on the show’s murderous ending

Abraham recently starred in The White Lotus, an experience he describes as among the best of his career

Failed start-up promised to revolutionise blood testing

Pop singer Lizzo underscored the importance of representation in an emotional Emmys speech

Crop of expensive fantasy adaptations from Amazon and HBO Max served up at subsidised prices

Patrick Freyne: It doesn’t take long for House of the Dragon to make clear the upsides, downsides and sore backsides of sitting on the Iron Throne

TV review: There’s no Jon Snow, Ned Stark or oversexed Lannister twins. But the dragons — and the skulduggery — are on screen from the outset

Warner Bros Discovery execs might not be Batgirl’s biggest fans, but they’re going all in on House Targaryen

Planet Business: Iced coffees fly out of Starbucks, while the tech world doubles down on cringeworthy workforce names

Catherine Martin and Screen Ireland launch site to help diaspora find Irish content

Pleas to save Channel 4 took centre stage on Sunday night amid uncertainty over future

A new film tells the story of Harry Haft who was forced to fight others to the death

News last week that the streamer lost subscribers for the first time in a decade resulted in a €50 billion drop in the company’s value

Company loses 200,000 members in the first three months of the year

The Swedish actor stars in a new Viking epic full of revenge, nudity and Nordic berserkers

TV review: The House of Maxwell is about a larger-than-life-father and disgraced daughter

Regulators decline to block deal which will bring 007 franchise into Prime Video space

Enlightening account of a life in laughter’s vanguard may test patience of Breaking Bad fans

'Now I feel I’m finally part of the family': Troy Kotsur, first deaf actor to win award

Cantillon: Long afterlife for HBO show would be ideal for Tourism Northern Ireland

Planet Business: Brexiteer’s new gig; crypto crime; and a bitter-sweet subscription