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November 1st-6th TV highlights, including Ireland’s Fittest Family, Crá and Blue Planet III
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Irish comedian Catherine Bohart: ‘I’m surprised my following is bigger in the US and UK than it is here’
The Irish comedian, who is on her Borrowing Trouble tour, has been playing her biggest rooms, watching ‘smut’ and ‘winning the nerd Olympics’
A Course Called Ireland and an old grump called Bill Murray
Even the ever-amiable Chris O’Dowd can’t persuade the Groundhog Day star to stick around to film one of their scenes in the BBC’s golfing travelogue
‘The Richard thing was very embarrassing’: Joanne McNally red-faced over Traitors gaffe
Irish comedian says her decision to believe Richard E Grant was a faithful helps explain elements of her love life
Joanne McNally played a blinder on The Celebrity Traitors. Here are 15 of her best lines
By remembering to be funny, the Irish comedian proved an excellent booking on the BBC show
There’s a reason comedians like Joanne McNally rarely make good Traitors
Influencers like King Kenny and Maya Jama have something people like McNally and actor Richard E Grant do not - an ability to manufacture intimacy
Tired pilots fear retribution and the €130,000 loan that became a €455,000 debt
Business Today: The best news, analysis and comment from The Irish Times business desk
How Irish businesses operating in both the North and South face ‘unnecessary’ barriers
Defying ‘unnecessary’ barriers, services trade between the Republic and Northern Ireland has bloomed into a €4.2bn relationship
RTÉ and BBC are both hanging on decisions on their futures. Which one is being handled better?
Most of the so-called State bailout of RTÉ is simply the cost of reluctance to grasp a political nettle
TV guide: the best new shows to watch, starting tonight
October 25th-30th highlights: including Dr Marie Cassidy Investigates Ireland’s Last Witch Trial, the Celebrity Traitors finale, and The Handel Scandal
Spoiler alert: Slow Horses, Strictly Come Dancing and an Irish actor’s strange beach limbo
As the BBC and Apple shows illustrate, the art of not revealing too much too soon has been complicated by on-demand viewing and the popularity of reality TV
A Course Called Ireland review: Bill Murray leaves no cliche unbothered in this schmaltzy Oirish tour
Faux-trad diddly-dee muzak, the strategic deployment of the word “feck” and jokes about the Irish and their quirky patois
Celebrity Traitors: Is James Acaster the worst Traitor in the history of the show?
Television: This tepid second season needs to find a way to raise the temperature in the time remaining
I have paid my TV licence long after I needed to. But RTÉ is testing my patience
When it comes to RTÉ, we are paying, we are the product and it has the platform to advocate for itself
It’s not just the Berlin Marathon. Cheating runners everywhere are now being closely watched
Social media’s bad influencers looking for shortcuts at marathons
‘Pablo doesn’t patronise’: The Irish animated show with an autistic star
Eleven-year-old Alexander Myles, from Co Antrim, takes over the main role for Pablo: Next Level, as the protagonist wrestles with the move to secondary school
Russell T Davies: ‘I keep a kitchen knife by the front door’
Queer as Folk writer and Doctor Who showrunner has written a memoir about his career. It’s ‘a nice moment to take stock’, he says
Small Prophets on Apple TV: A new genre that is funny, fantastical and heartbreakingly tender
Television: The magical realism is unexpected - it’s like turning on Alan Partridge only for someone to ride in on a dragon
Pilita Clark: Dear all ... how bosses should talk to the troops
What matters most is understanding priorities and conveying them as thoughtfully as possible
Author Niall Williams: ‘I will always be an outsider, even here after 41 years’
Author describes how he arrived ‘fictionally home’ in the imaginary village of Faha and how he celebrates the generosity, dignity and humour of his community
Autumn reflection: Frank McNally finds poetic cheer in the October gloom
Rereading Patrick Kavanagh’s poem has brought the sobering thought that it may be October in my life now too
Celebrity Traitors on BBC One: An ego-filled riot of characters come roaring out of the traps
Comedian Joanne McNally - the inevitable Irish contestant - is keeping her head down and could be a potential dark horse as the action picks up
Esther Rantzen: The best bits from a brilliant TV career
Pioneering BBC personality championed a blend of light and serious material on That’s Life which had not previously occupied adjacent airtime
Blue Lights on BBC One: An unfortunate and cartoonish portrayal of racism in Ireland
There are echoes of British television’s historical tendency to portray Irish people as uncouth bruisers always up for a bit of fisticuffs
RTÉ’s new Listen app tells us some things about its future direction but keeps others hidden
Should the national broadcaster be offering its listeners’ data as part of its sales pitch to advertisers?
The writers behind Blue Lights: ‘I think I fell in love. I thought, I have to work with this guy’
Writers Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson say that despite the ‘love’ in the North for their hit PSNI-centred drama, they were petrified to take on such a ‘hot potato’ topic
The eyes have it: Rory Stewart’s ‘magnificently strange’ Newsnight moment goes viral
Clip of former Tory MP staring intently at fellow panellist is shared widely online
Gurriers singer Dan Hoff: ‘I try to talk about my mental-health issues the same as a common cold’
Postpunk band are upfront about having accumulated hard-won wisdom since they formed in 2020 before lockdown
Bonnie Greer: Writer and cultural commentator dies aged 77
Greer’s work often focused on minorities and spanned novels, nonfiction, plays and broadcasting
When pirates ruled the waves: recalling the golden era of radio in Cork
You could hear anything from punk rockers to right-wing moralisers campaigning against the availability of condoms
This City Is Ours on RTÉ One: Love letter to Liverpool is a crime drama with an identity crisis
Television: Biggest misstep is waste of Derry Girls actor Saoirse-Monica Jackson as a gangster Wag. Her performance is a scream into the void
Dara Ó Briain: ‘I don’t think anyone put an argument in favour of Brexit on Mock the Week’
Irish comedian reflects on Mock the Week’s past iterations ahead of revival and the material inspiring his next tour, Re:Creation
Former BBC Northern Ireland political correspondent Stephen Walker dies aged 61
Award-winning journalist wrote biographies of John Hume and David Trimble
Mr Moonlight: RTÉ announces new drama based on Patrick Quirke murder trial
Producers say series ‘intends to give a voice back’ to victim DJ Bobby Ryan and family
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