The Six Triple Eight: Stirring tribute to the only black women’s unit to serve in Europe during the second World War
The script is seldom subtle but impressive war tableaux act as a salve for dialogue
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‘When these women left home there were rumours that they were sent to Europe to be concubines for black soldiers’
The Six Triple Eight director Tyler Perry on the true story behind his new film, about the only US army unit of black women sent to Europe during the second World War
Oprah Winfrey discusses Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These: ‘I had never heard of the Magdalene laundries’
Winfrey chose Keegan’s novella for the first instalment of her new YouTube series The Oprah Podcast
Ann Napolitano on the Oprah effect: ‘95 per cent of the credit goes to her, not my book’
After hesitant beginnings, the author of Dear Edward and Hello Beautiful has become a bestselling novelist
Facebook owner to push ahead with plans to launch Twitter rival
Meta targeting Oprah Winfrey and Dalai Lama as potential users of ‘sanely run’ social networking platform
Twitter employees ‘battle-weary’ as Elon Musk takeover deal drags on
Tesla chief’s stop-start plan to buy social media platform for $44bn has left staff in an uncomfortable limbo
Prince Harry says he made sure queen was ‘protected’ during recent trip
Queen was ‘on great form’ during meeting at Windsor Castle, Harry says in US interview
Will Smith breaks character – after 40 years playing the energetic, merry prankster
Oscars 2022 should have been the culmination of Smith’s extraordinary career. But he snapped
Royal family: As Queen Elizabeth winds down, will her successors measure up?
The Windsors must prepare for the exit of an ‘icon of steadiness’ and an uncertain future
Megxit, England’s defeat and 11 minutes less TV a day: what Irish viewers watched in 2021
Toy Show victorious once more, as news audiences drop from pandemic peak
UK in 2021: Johnson in freefall and annus horribilis for the royals
Few would bet on the PM remaining in office another year or the royal family making up
Seán Moncrieff: Everyone is on a ‘journey’ these days, but they’re not all equal
The word ‘journey’ has travelled far. It is now deep in the Land of Meaninglessness
Oatly stumble, art collectors’ Christmas and Star Trek fans vs Paramount Plus
Planet Business: It’s a streaming service, Jim, but not as we know it
Adele: ‘I feel bad my weight loss made anyone feel horrible about themselves, but that’s not my job’
The singer got personal in an interview with Oprah Winfrey in her One Night Only special
A princess is set to be wed, but it’s no fairy tale
Princess Mako of Japan must leave royalty behind to marry her college sweetheart
Meghan Markle row: Piers Morgan ruling issued after host’s Good Morning Britain walkout
Controversial comments on breakfast-television show prompted more than 50,000 complaints
Live TV viewership fell 7% in first half of 2021 as pandemic effect waned
Streaming of broadcasters’ content still higher than before Covid, says Core
Emmys: The Crown, Ted Lasso and The Mandalorian lead nominations
Streaming services take most nominations, with 130 for HBO+ and 129 for Netflix
The story of Britney Spears is a classic fairy tale
From childhood we are inured to fables about females having their powers taken away
Harry and Meghan reject claim queen not consulted on Lilibet name
BBC says source claims Sussexes did not ask for permission to use name for daughter
Salman Rushdie: ‘I am stupidly optimistic – it got me through those bad years’
The novelist on strong women, ‘moral censorship’ and the ‘great wound’ of his life
The Ellen DeGeneres Show’s end is a sign of our growing impatience with celebrities
The comic’s show faced challenges far beyond her stated reasons for moving on
Ellen DeGeneres announces end to her talk show
US TV host’s decision follows controversy over alleged toxic environment on set
‘It was a ticking timebomb’: Inside the rise and fall of The Jeremy Kyle Show
Two years after the TV show was taken off air, former staffers reflect on a toxic work culture
‘Let yourself be quirky’: Oprah Winfrey’s life coach on how to be happier
Martha Beck survived abuse, left her husband and then began working with the TV superstar
Prince Philip funeral: British royal family mourns as life remembered at service
People across UK observe minute’s silence as funeral takes place in Windsor Castle
BBC coverage of Prince Philip’s death attracts 110,000 complaints
Total is highest number ever published in UK about television programming
‘We’ve lost almost the grandfather of the nation,’ says Prince Andrew
Coronavirus restrictions limit Prince Philip’s funeral on Saturday in Windsor to 30 people
Michelle Obama says it is not a ‘surprise’ to hear Meghan Markle raise issue of race
Obama says ‘race isn’t a new construct in this world for people of colour’
Meghan Markle makes formal complaint about Piers Morgan
Morgan dismissed Markle’s account of suffering suicidal thoughts in Oprah interview
Royal ratings, Biden visits and the vogue for non-fungible tokens
Planet Business: When the Boot is on the other Foot
Prince William says royals ‘very much not a racist family’
‘I haven’t spoken to him yet but I will do’ prince says after brother’s Oprah interview
Meghan and Harry interview brings 725,000 viewers to RTÉ2
Oprah special with couple on track to be in top 20 biggest shows on Irish TV this year
Piers Morgan’s diabolical behaviour: How much of a tantrum can a man throw?
Rosita Boland: The TV presenter’s mystifying obsession with Meghan Markle has hit a new low
Harry and Meghan strike at legitimacy of the British monarchy
Oprah interview raises uncomfortable questions, not least about the issue of succession
Buckingham Palace under pressure to respond to Meghan Markle’s racism claim
Keir Starmer says allegations in Oprah Winfrey interview should be taken seriously
Meghan Markle says royal had concerns about her child’s skin colour
Wife of Prince Harry tells Oprah Winfrey she considered taking her own life
Meghan Markle accuses Buckingham Palace of ‘perpetuating falsehoods’
Duchess claims in Oprah interview that ‘The Firm’ is lying about her and Prince Harry
Prince Harry: My biggest fear with Meghan was history repeating itself
Prince’s mother, Princess Diana, died in car crash at 36 after being hounded by UK press
Harry and Meghan to break silence in Oprah Winfrey interview
Couple, who are expecting second child, to give first interview since quitting as senior royals
Renowned US talk show host Larry King dies aged 87
Breezy interview style made him a popular figure on US television screens for decades
Dolly Parton partly funded Moderna Covid vaccine research
Country musician’s $1m donation supported breakthrough by Moderna
Inside Meghan and Harry’s new $14.7m nine-bed, 16-bath California home
Sussexes’ Santa Barbara neighbours include Oprah Winfrey and Gwyneth Paltrow
Oprah wore my dress to the Oscars to pick up a lifetime award
Wild Geese: Irish fashion designer Don O’Neill is focusing on the next chapter of his life having lost his job as a result of Covid-19
Beach drones, oat milk money and tax-loving millionaires
Planet Business: British Airways move to sell off its art isn’t an original
Four new movies to stream this weekend
Michelle Obama’s softly softly marketing movie, plus a documentary on romcoms and two very different films from a Romanian master
Becoming review: The Michelle Obama Netflix film is a cosy hagiography
There’s no grit, no Hillary Clinton, and little discussion of race relations or Donald Trump
Servicing the entrepreneurs
You don’t need your own premises or even your own equipment as long as you’ve got the right skills and ideas to build a successful business
How rituals can help us adapt to the new working reality
Even simple, seemingly pointless rituals can offset the loss of a regular working routine
Tech boss Jack Dorsey vows to donate $1bn to fight coronavirus
CEO of Twitter and Square plans to donate just under one-third of his total wealth to tackling Covid-19
Open ‘by Easter’: Trump again hints at restarting economy in ‘town hall’ interview
US president replaces daily coronavirus briefing with Fox News event for supporters
‘Just to hear the language Bob Hope was using – it was so offensive’
Gugu Mbatha-Raw’s role in Misbehaviour, about the 1970 Miss World pageant, plays to her strengths
Dublin International Film Festival 2020: Memorable matriarchal themes
Writer, actor and activist John Connors has two directorial efforts in the festival
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