From Baby Reindeer and The Traitors to Bodkin and The 2 Johnnies Late Night Lock In: The best and worst television of 2024
The glory days of streaming are over, but TV has never been more unpredictable
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Curfew review: Passable thriller set in dystopian near future where men aren’t allowed out after dark
Television: Have the producers never heard of domestic violence? Do they think the patriarchy only does its dirty work at night?
Markets cheered by prospects of interest rate cuts
Market in Dublin climbs 0.5% as it is buoyed by a strong showing from budget airline Ryanair following O’Leary comments
Paramount agrees Skydance merger in end to Redstone era
Ellison family and US investment group RedBird to invest $8 billion in group
Murdaugh Murders: The Movie review – Bill Pullman is masterful in cheesy retelling of gruesome crime
Television: This breezy adaptation is, for all its lack of dramatic substance, deeply bingeable
Beer sales bonanza as Euro 2024 kicks off with a little help from Albärt the mascot
Planet Business: Apple has us shaking our heads, Paramount calls off a planned merger and it never rains but it pours for Rishi Sunak
The Serial Killer’s Wife review: Another British thriller in which a woman’s middle-class life is ripped to tatters
Television: The drama is piled high with unpleasant protagonists and wallows in nastiness simply for the sake of it
Insomnia review: Vicky McClure is great in this ridiculous British potboiler
Television: Following a well-established formula where a successful middle-class woman’s life is ripped apart, Insomnia is silly but gets under the skin
Sony and Apollo approach Paramount Global with €24bn bid outline
Expression of intent comes a day before exclusivity window is due to close for rival Skydance Media
‘Shakeout has begun’ after $5bn streaming loss for Netflix rivals
Tie-ups and cuts on menu as Disney, Warner, Comcast and Paramount seek new ways to keep up
Warner Bros Discovery and Paramount CEOs hold exploratory merger talks
A deal could combine CNN and CBS while letting the indebted media groups cut streaming costs
Why is Martin Scorsese making a fuss over Killers of the Flower Moon toilet breaks?
Donald Clarke: The director’s latest tussle with the great unwashed concerns unauthorised intermissions at screenings of Killers of the Flower Moon
Russia’s bootleg ‘Barbie’ viewings attract huge numbers
‘Unbelievable’ demand as fans flock to low-quality projections of blockbuster movie after producer Warner Bros pulled out of country
Come to Russia, says war-waging Kremlin as it chases tourist custom of foreign visitors
Planet Business: KKR’s Simon & Schuster bargain, Beyond Meat’s sales woes and a spreading European phenomenon: windfall taxes on banks
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