Ryan Murphy

The actor has drawn on his experience of addiction to portray the fashion designer Halston

Ewan McGregor as Halston and the return of Special are among the month’s highlights

How Jeffrey Toobin, New Yorker writer and CNN legal analyst, lost his sweetest gig

Review: The Prom, also starring Nicole Kidman, is an old-fashioned toe-tapping feelgood musical

Including Mank, The Prom, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, The Midnight Sky and Bridgerton

Including Hilary Swank in space drama Away and Jessie Buckley in Charlie Kaufman’s I’m Thinking of Ending Things

A Japanese mentor helped to inspire Conor Hanratty’s online short play War Paint

Including Queer Eye, Dating Around, The Politician, Athlete A, and a Eurovision spoof

Including Hollywood, The Love Birds, The Eddy and an Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt special

Netflix’s 1940s-Hollywood drama is brimming with petroleum-based rumpy pumpy

Review: What this lacks in characterisation, it makes up in sheer, hurtling momentum

Ryan Murphy was struck while following Rory McIlory at Atlanta golf course

Weiss and Benioff’s €179m deal could take years to pay off for streaming service

A new American Crime Story project will see overdue redemption for Monica Lewinsky

Latest series of hit show will recount White House intern’s affair with president

Renee Zellweger stars in What/If; Knock Down the House looks at the rise of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

He set a new Irish record of 22.76 at World Short Course Swimming Championships

‘I definitely have more in the tank, I have a lane, I have an opportunity’

HBO and Netflix tied for the total number of Emmys won, with 23 awards each

Backlash led by trans actors who argue such decisions take opportunities away from LGBTQ+ community

Move marks symbolic change for the industry

Agreement covers scripted and unscripted series, documentaries and feature films

The Hollywood great’s failed lawsuit has got fact-based TV and cinema off the hook

Cork teenager thought he was buying cocaine which turned out to be powerful opioid

This expertly made, gorgeous-to -look-at new series makes his murderer into a somebody

Streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon are swooping for leading producers

Irish nominees come up short, Meryl Streep gives searing critique of Donald Trump

Cannabis derivatives offer viable pain relief, so why has big pharma ignored them so far?

The all-time greatest Olympian helps his team to 4x100m medley title in Rio

Controversial Russian Yulia Efimova has to settle for silver as Lilly King takes gold for USA

First ever Irish swimmer to reach a 100m backstroke semi-final finishes eighth

As per the OJ and Clarence Thomas cases, one theme dominates the US

Whether it's a Netflix original like Orange Is The New Black, a British comedy like Peep Show or just completely addictive like Breaking Bad; we've listed and categorised the very best Netflix boxsets for you to enjoy.

Anthony Foley names a young team for friendly against Gloucester at Kingsholm

Northampton Saints academy wing Wootton to make his Ireland debut