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Television: The Game of Thrones spin-off has finally kicked up a gear, becoming fantasy at its finest

Television: Adaptation of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel focuses on the Vietnamese caught in the Cold War clash between the United States and Soviet Union

From war reporting to legendary Irish songs, from the chirping of birds to the Grand Tour, from Gilbert & George to O’Connell Street, here is a guide to what’s worth watching on TV

Sky’s Kay Burley reckoned election would be called in November, but Irish ambassador Martin Fraser was on the button

Donald Clarke: What Larry David did with the ending of his comedy feels unique in the troubled history of televisual valedictions

Andrew Scott in Ripley and Donald Glover and Maya Erskine in Mr & Mrs Smith are among the highlights thus far

Offerings might look similar, but beware that some are available only with a broadband package, some include annual ‘inflation’ price rises, and some are limited in terms of recording and other features

Television review: Julianne Moore has great fun but the grim comedy style weighs down this story of scheming courtiers like mud on the hem of a dress

Sky’s Stephen van Rooyen tops Reputations Agency’s ranking of most influential CEOs on LinkedIn, ahead of Meta’s Anne O’Leary and Primark’s Paul Marchant

Broadcast rights to the US Open and most men’s and women’s tour events have moved to Sky, but Virgin customers paying for Sky Sports won’t have TV access

Mom Ireland project, the first of its kind in Europe, is supported by Coimisiún na Meán with co-funding from the EU

Patrick Freyne: Disney+ having the beloved Artful Dodger carry out surgery is a wonderfully deranged, and actually pretty Dickensian, choice

True Detective, The Tourist, First Dates Ireland, The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Bodkin, Ripley and Blackshore among highlights

Sky Sports secured four of the five packages on sale, a minimum of 215 live matches

Colette Camden’s thoughtful documentary on Sky avoids true crime sensationalism

Pricewatch: ‘I am a long-time customer of Sky and am appalled by their attitude’

Patrick Freyne: The Buccaneers is about a bunch of wild and crazy girlbosses who like to party, as Edith Wharton no doubt would have described her novel

From Liz Bonnin’s Caribbean adventure to the true story of an Irish serial killer in London

Partnership allows Sky to enhance its offer to customers and comes amid a €200m network upgrade by Virgin

Michael McGrane (47) has pleaded guilty to two counts of selling ‘protection-defeating’ devices used to access stations such as Sky Sports

The New Zealand author on her latest novel, Sisters Under the Rising Sun, and publishing a global best-selling debut at the age of 65

Most people are paying for services and features that they use rarely, if at all, so now is the time to review your relationship with technology

Television: This romantic comedy starring Róisín Gallagher aims to do for Belfast what Love, Actually did for picture-postcard London

Sellers of dodgy boxes are unconcerned at latest threats of a crackdown, saying such warnings tend to coincide with the start of Premier League football each year

Burden of additional costs damaging to Irish operation’s viability, says broadcaster

Including The Woman in the Wall, Selling Super Houses, Hatton and more

From new Star Wars fix Ahsoka to the Rose of Tralee

West Belfast actor talks about her lead role in The Lovers playing a loyalist from east Belfast and how it brought her to parts of her home city she had never visited

Disney made the Comcast-owned broadcaster an offer it found it could refuse

The service uses the internet instead to bring the channels to your home

The novelty of this could wear off very quickly, making it an expensive experiment

While Sky and Cadbury have stepped up to support Vera Pauw’s team, for many advertisers it may be ‘just one World Cup too early’ to commit budgets to women’s football

Any Other Business: McKillen becomes Vietnam’s honorary consul, RTE Player on Sky, the NTMA and bonuses, and Euronext’s plea on share trading tax

It has been a fine year on the telly with some memorable dramas and comedies

Politicians funked the issue of financing public service broadcasting for far too long

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

Interactive camera allows you watch television with friends and family not in your home

Television: Episode one gives a crash course on why this reboot of the iconic 1990s dramedy remains so redundant

Drury has more than 30 years of experience across TV and radio, most recently with BT Sport and NBC

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