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No ghosts, vampires or mummies, RTÉ has told pitching producers. But as it plots its way out of its financial crisis, what type of stories is it bringing to viewers?

Louis Walsh and Sharon Osborne both seem grumpy. They have either been conscripted against their will under new legislation or they’re each here so they can pay an unexpected bill

Including the series finale of The Tourist, Chinook: Zulu Delta 576 and Selling Ireland’s Dream Homes

UK prime minister Rishi Sunak announces new laws to give ‘blanket’ exoneration to those caught up in the “one of the greatest miscarriages of justice” in British history.

London Letter: UK government scrambles to deal with a national issue where there’s even a foreigner to blame

The cliffhanger-loving BBC reality show is an addictive new year distraction that makes its viewers wait

Television: Should ITV have given Nigel Farage, the former leader of Ukip and the Brexit Party, airtime in the reality show?

Some organisations are asking for disclosure of platonic as well as romantic workplace relationships

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

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

This Morning presenter pulled out of the ITV show on Thursday

From boozing Boris in Partygate to the treacherous tech-fuelled modern dating game in Fool for Love

The Great British Bake Off and dark new comedy Obituary are among the highlights

Yarwood, whose mother was Irish, lacked the carapace of confidence to protect him during tough times

From new Star Wars fix Ahsoka to the Rose of Tralee

Michael Parkinson interviewed Muhammad Ali, David Bowie and John Lennon on UK chat show Parkinson

Television: The Irish TV presenter mixes empathy and journalistic verve in these frank and sometimes shocking documentaries

From starry espionage caper A Spy Among Friends to just-as-starry whodunit Murder on the Blackpool Express

From teen crime drama Then You Run to the time Wham! took over the world

Patrick Freyne: These newcomers are but hunk-shaped shadows on the wall of Plato’s cave. They’re like hunky ashes in my mouth

UTV’s retelling of the murder, though well-intentioned, fails to locate the drama in the story

From David Tennant as poisoning victim Alexander Litvinenko to Catherine Tate as queen of Australia

Chief executive Carolyn McCall denied repeated accusations that there was a “toxic” workplace culture at the station

Television: Barely 90 minutes in, and show is already playing the hits. Fans will adore it. Everyone else will have changed the channel

Holly Willoughby gives emotional statement following departure of Phillip Schofield

From Lily Rose Depp as an up-and-coming pop star in The Idol to a Phillip Schofield-free British Soap Awards

In his first interview since leaving This Morning TV show, the British presenter says he is ‘utterly broken and ashamed’

In the News podcast with Bernice Harrison

Finn McRedmond: ITV investigated rumours about Schofield and employee in early 2020

Majorca-set reality show has been beset by controversy in years past and any new scandal would compound pressures on the broadcaster

ITV This Morning presenter denies illegality in ‘unwise’ relationship with male teenager

Where did it all go wrong for co-hosts Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby?

Presenter (61) worked on programme for more than 20 years but will no not return to hosting with Holly Willoughby

From a concert to mark the coronation of King Charles to Ireland’s Eurovision semi-final

When he realised he could boost ratings by lowering the tone, the talk show host - who died on Thursday - let it rip

Television: Niamh Algar is riveting in UTV’s hospital thriller, a kind of Line of Duty with stethoscopes

Planet Business: ITV’s royal writedowns, Rupert Murdoch’s new wife-to-be and Credit Suisse memorabilia

Including The Masked Singer, Starstruck, Ukraine’s War Diaries, Katie Price’s Mucky Mansion and Other Voices

Entrants from Ireland aware of how absurd the entire fandango is, whereas Brits seem to believe this truly is their ticket to the big time

Buckle up for lashings of banter and ‘grafting’ as the show goes south for winter