Put your feet up as we bring you the best of Irish television – and then take a deep breath as we run through the worst

Katelyn Cummins claims the Dancing with the Stars crown

On his first LP since going independent, James Blake blends stillness and beauty with quietly roiling rage

Television: Slice-of-life memories a stark reminder of arbitrary cruelty of former Soviet Union

Television: There hasn’t been so much exposed flesh since a heatwave at Bray seafront in May

Television: Documentary often feels like conversation on misogyny without any input from the victims

Laufey brings an old-school sound thrillingly up to date during an evening of jazz-tinged joy

Paudie Moloney has had an open-ended get-out-of-jail-free card in the RTÉ competition

The trad-metal Irish band on solidarity between artists, the Hoxton Hotel protests and why success for other groups is ‘a lovely thing to see’

Television: Refreshing new series appears to exist in a parallel reality, a trend of elevated quirkiness now quietly voguish in US television

Make-Up Is a Lie is a long way short of The Smiths, but it’s merely bad-tempered and argumentative rather than actively offensive

Let’s hope a re-emergence of the actor’s bold declaration that she doesn’t like cats won’t mean she faces kitty karma on Oscar night

With Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally, Harry Styles genuinely wants to push forward creatively, but the results are more honourable pastiche than profound artistic statement

Television: In the wake of the unexpected death of the chummy and clubbable Wallace, it is wonderful to see the architect on screen one final time

Television: Just as Larry Goodman symbolised something bigger than the 1980s beef industry, so this film symbolises more than a corporation’s rise and fall