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Patrick Freyne on the 2 Johnnies, Rivals, Say Nothing, Baby Reindeer and television trends of the past 12 months
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Rivals: The thrusting bum is intercut with spurting soap and overflowing champagne. We are in safe, if filthy, hands
Patrick Freyne: If I was in Disney+’s Jilly Cooper adaptation, someone would surely compliment my ‘magnificent column’
Rivals: This Jilly Cooper bonkfest has too many pants around the ankles, not enough plot
Television: Why is sex meant to be so funny? Perhaps we should ask the British
Colin Firth’s wet shirt from Pride and Prejudice sells for £20,000
TV memorabilia reigns as Tony’s booth from the enigmatic final scene of The Sopranos sells for $82,600
Fifteen-Love: Ella Lily Hyland and Aidan Turner are searing together in this gripping tennis drama
Television: Hyland plays a tennis wunderkind fallen on hard times, with Turner as her slimy former coach, in this Prime Video series
Ella Lily Hyland: ‘I think we’re often taught not to trust our instincts as women’
The Carlow actor stars in Fifteen-Love, a darkly delicate exploration of abuse in elite tennis, alongside Aidan Turner
When Aidan Turner first turns up in The Suspect I don’t know whether to laugh or order a soy macchiato
TV review: The Dublin actor is virtually unrecognisable behind a vast, loamy craft beard. But his low-key, chill-dude energy keeps this potboiler grounded
Aidan Turner: ‘That photograph. Yeah. It took away from the work’
Poldark-turned-Leonardo da Vinci actor on ballroom dancing, hazmat suits and a thirst for stout
Since when do the Irish say ‘loo-tenant’ instead of ‘lef-tenant’?
Aidan Turner and Graham Norton have been pronouncing it wrongly. Or have they?
Return of BBC Three shows linear TV is not quite dead yet
Yanking channel was ‘a bit mad’, but future interest of younger viewers must be in doubt
TV in 2019: A year of big and unhappy endings
Fleabag, Game of Thrones and Catastrophe all ended – and somehow brought us all together
Poldark finale: It’s all a big sexy misunderstanding
Patrick Freyne: Series comes to an end with a climactic showy sword fight. Quiet at the back
Poldark: Aidan Turner passes his James Bond audition
Review: Over four series, Ross Poldark has become a calmer, wiser, shirtier character
Young offenders star Chris Walley wins Olivier award
Cork actor wins award for his work in Martin McDonagh’s The Lieutenant of Inishmore
Meet the Irish author who is reinventing Doctor Who
The sci-fi series’s labyrinthine mythology is no problem for Irish author Dave Rudden
The Meaning of Poldark Striding Topless Out of the Sea
Patrick Freyne: Poldark’s full of existential conundrums. And heaving, glistening chests
The weekend's best TV: Poldark and Aidan Turner return
A new documentary on Germaine Greer is among the TV highlights
Stephen Swift: affection and love flow for an actor and a gentleman
Dublin stage actor who has died aged 44 remembered as ‘an outstanding example of how to live’
On TV this weekend: Ethan Hawke, Gino D’Acampo and Tracey Ullman
Frankie Boyle goes to Russia ahead of the World Cup, plus the final of Britain’s Got Talent
James Bond: Daniel Craig with Danny Boyle directing confirmed for 007’s latest mission
The ‘Trainspotting’ director will take the reins on 25th James Bond film – and Craig’s fifth
Never say never: Daniel Craig confirms one more Bond film
And when he's finished as 007? Clondalkin man Aidan Turner looks nicely positioned
Poldark: He’s so fertile, I may have got pregnant watching him
The melodramatic, gripping, entertaining series is back, writes Patrick Freyne
Poldark returns: what next for Cornwall’s bare-chested hero?
Will Demelza continue to put up with Ross’s shenanigans? Will he get his shirt off?
A ‘baffling’ adaptation of Sebastian Barry’s The Secret Scripture
Rooney Mara and Jack Reynor are the muddled lovers with no chemistry in Jim Sheridan’s film of Barry’s acclaimed novel
Roger Moore: ‘I was too smooth, before time rolled its evil tracks across my gob’
The ex-007 talks movies, marriages and how Aidan Turner would look good as Bond
Fintan O’Toole: The love-hate relationship between Ireland and Britain
An Irish Times series explores Ireland’s relationship with its bigger, more powerful neighbour, our changing levels of enmity and amity and the small – yet vast – differences that define the two countries
Aidan Turner: ‘It would be embarrassing if Poldark bombed’
As the Dubliner returns for a second series, he reflects on his career and the audition that went so badly he thought ‘I need to take advantage of these looks before they fade’
‘Bake Off’ producer Sideline picks up cheque for family format
Company behind ‘Great Irish Bake Off’ to develop ‘Bucking the Trend’ for RTÉ
‘An Klondike’ among Celtic Media Festival nominees
Irish broadcasters and producers rack up 42 nominations for this year’s ‘Torc’ awards
Television review: What the Dickens? Agatha Christie classic steals the Christmas show
‘And There Were None’ proves a compelling piece of costume drama, while Luke Kelly gets an affectionate, enjoyable treatment
Television: Cry me a River and pay tribute to the Don – the small-screen year
Year in review: From ‘Red Rock’ to Aidan Turner’s biceps in ‘Poldark’ and Don Draper’s final ad campaign in ‘Mad Men’, TV delivered the goods in 2015
Laura Slattery: Diary of a despairing, caffeine-dependent hack
A year of ‘Poldark’, paranoia and seeing off a threat from Pixie Pickle Pants
In-flight magazine ‘Cara’ gets down to business
Aer Lingus title has added a new 16-page section for business travellers
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