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December 14th-20th: including The Young Offenders, Ken Wardrop’s documentary So This Is Christmas, and MrBeast’s Beast Games
The Young Offenders
Young Offenders star Alex Murphy: ‘For Roy Keane to be eager to be on the show was just mad’
The hit comedy, which returns to the BBC next week, was the actor’s first professional work. So he didn’t expect a Cork sporting legend to arrive on set
It’s an Irish ‘cultural phenomenon’ – but Irish TV can’t afford to show it yet
No joke: The BBC has begun publicising the next series of The Young Offenders, but RTÉ has deferred its broadcast of the comedy until 2025
The Young Offenders: The original fecking eejits are back
Review: The return of our soft-hearted, soft-headed Cork yobs is right on form
The Young Offenders: ‘A Cork accent is a bizarre noise to come out of a mouth’
With a new series about to hit screens, thanks to streaming services – and subtitles – the show’s cult following has spread globally
The Young Offenders contains more Cork accents than in past decade on RTÉ
Review: It’s almost as if metropolitan life exists beyond Dublin. What dark alchemy is this?
‘Young Offenders’: ‘Who knew little old Cork would travel so well?’
The comedy’s enormous success surprised everyone, not least its stars Alex Murphy and Chris Walley
‘Spend the day in your socks’: When teachers were tyrants
These days education is all about ‘the voice of the pupil’. It feels a long way from when tyrannical teachers reigned supreme
The Young Offenders: As hilarious as it is touching. A perfect finale
After this masterpiece, the contagious double act are sure to be repeat offenders
The Young Offenders: Cork’s adorable teenage criminals
Review: The hit Irish film is now a TV series, and its comedy has grown in confidence
The Young Offenders: Breaking into the English Market
The runaway success of the film has led to a BBC series and a new level of attention in Cork
The Young Offenders is to become a TV series
The BBC/RTÉ co-production to get a six-episode run - and the Cork accents are staying
How Cork cocaine caper The Young Offenders struck comedy gold
Cork actors Alex Murphy and Chris Walley are a perfect double act in new Irish movie The Young Offenders. And their comic banter is as hilarious off-screen
The Young Offenders review: hugely funny, genuinely sweet Irish comedy
Chris Walley and Alex Murphy create a magnificent comic partnership as two idiots on the hunt for a missing suitcase of cocaine in Peter Foott’s charming debut
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