Ten of the best new shows to watch in October on Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+ and Apple TV
Your guide to streaming, including East of Eden, Kill Jackie, Carrie, Nobody Wants This and Nocturne
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Your guide to streaming, including East of Eden, Kill Jackie, Carrie, Nobody Wants This and Nocturne
Both HSBC and Wells Fargo have downgraded the streamer’s rating, citing weakening subscriber engagement
The actor, a ‘dark horse’ in Tall Tales & Murder, an offbeat assassin in Black Doves and now in the play Electra/Persona, learned to take direction in an unusual way
There’s nothing wrong with their upcoming film Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew featuring a female Aslan. Jesus wasn’t a lion either
Announcement comes two weeks after streamer increased subscription rates
Posho dressed as a pearly king Guy Ritche offers up more cartoon geezer yarns
HBO Max drama The Pitt is tipped for victory with 25 nods across several categories
As Netflix’s hit Paris-set dramedy returns as a movie, its star talks about French cinema’s darker side and how a trip to Kilkenny landed her a role opposite Matt Damon
Government has effectively shelved the proposal despite recommendations from media regulator and cross-party committee
Everybody Digs Bill Evans, the Dublin actor’s new film, is a finely balanced marvel about the jazz pianist. You wouldn’t know it was shot in Ireland
New price represents a €2-per-month increase, while premium option goes up to €25.99
What’s lacking here is any sense of fun. Without the larking about, what does any Guy Ritchie caper have going for it?
Your guide to streaming, including The Grand Tour, Slow Horses, Mobland and Brothers
Campaign for Stella Artois shows Netflix letting brands into the storytelling with its latest commercial tie-in
Six-part mockumentary will be set in the high-stakes world of competitive Irish dancing
Five-episode prequel will explore the origins of his Irish gangster character, with filming due to begin in 2027
The Olympic breakdancer became a viral sensation after her performance at Paris 2024, where she failed to receive a single point
Companies once focused on gaining new subscribers now more concerned with keeping those viewers
Heritage is being sold off to the highest bidders as best interests of fans are ignored
If modern elite football is a camp television drama, the Real Madrid manager’s theatrics make him the main character
Martin and Roman’s Irish Road Trip is often good fun but does not overburden British viewers with knowledge, while a new Netflix show asks: ‘What if Ricky Gervais was a cat?’
Screen Ireland figures show production spending contributed record €544m to economy in 2025
AI is cited as the latest threat to Hollywood’s survival, yet box office revenues are at record levels
Ashford Studios had sought permission for an additional five film studios as part of expansion plan at Kellystown site
Television: Set in 1980s LA, this show may be shallow but creates quite a splash
TV, radio, video-on-demand and streamers all jostle for attention but the instruments that measure them remain separate and mutually unintelligible
The British comedian was a fan of fried chicken until he made his gruesome documentary, Big Chicken: A Fast Food Conspiracy
Your guide to streaming, including Alley Cats, Lioness, Dark Matter, The Shards and the return of Ted Lasso
Holly Willoughby Together has been compared to the found-footage horror film With Love, Meghan, but things improve when Stanley Tucci breezes in
Television: This golf romp tries to replicate the magic of a genre whose time has passed
No enterprise could absorb an 18-year price freeze on its primary revenue stream while costs keep climbing
These books are politically wrong, but they’re also well written
Netflix’s Little House on the Prairie feeds into the fantasy that settlers have a great moral message (‘finders keepers’)
Television: Beautiful to look at and well-acted this revived series is so slow-moving as to appeal only to hardcore Laura Ingalls Wilder fans
As the chess boom takes hold, getting official recognition as a sport will unlock funding, says the Irish Chess Union
Deal comes as less than a quarter of 16-24-year-olds’ in-home viewing is now of content from broadcasters
Your guide to streaming, including The Hawk, Elle, a new Little House on the Prairie, Lucky and Furious
The actor has gone from his teenage break in EastEnders to playing Dr Watson in Netflix’s Sherlock Holmes franchise, and roles in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey and Ryan Coogler’s The X-Files
Millie Bobby Brown as our daredevil heroine is back and unleashing the right kind of fun
Television: More than 60 experts, including Mike Pence and Hillary Clinton, weigh in on the US’s origins and enduring fabulosity
A writer perfectly placed to examine the impact of this ‘act of self-harm’
Television: This romp adheres rigidly to the Coben blueprint and is all the richer for its silliness and its refusal to be boring
Lawsuit contends ‘selective editing’ and ‘surgical manipulation’ were used to create narrative
There is a host of football-themed programming airing at sensible times, just to get you in the mood
Peter McKenna says ‘expertise’ behind marketing campaign will help fill 82,300 capacity
Women don’t explicitly promise to love, honour and surrender their financial autonomy in marriage, but many do anyway
June 7th to 12th highlights, including Backstory, Britney: In Ten Pictures, Total Football and Queen James
RTÉ’s familiar faces stuck on the sidelines again for World Cup’s footballing feast
A New Yorker article indicates the author of bestselling memoir Strangers had minimised her personal wealth
Streamer’s co-founder steps away as his progeny faces its biggest challenge
Davies starred as Agent Wilson in a reboot of David Lynch and Mark Frost’s hit series in 2017
Your guide to streaming, including Clarkson’s Farm, The Bear, Sugar, Michael Jackson: The Verdict and Not Suitable for Work
Television: Tina Fey is the best thing here, and even she always seems just one eye-roll away from shrugging her shoulders and exiting
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices