Channel 4

Patrick Freyne: Agent Scanlon is proceeding successfully with her mission to destabilise the British housing market

Elle Fanning is excellent as real-life Michelle Carter, whose relationship with Conrad Roy ended tragically

Including Million Dollar Pigeons, Dial M for Middlesbrough, David Harewood on Blackface and the return of Good Omens

Television: In Am I a R*tard? the comedian Rosie Jones lays bare the abuse she faces every day because of her disability

From Chris Packham’s topical take on an ancient mass extinction event to the real-life succession of Rupert Murdoch

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

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

From Lily Rose Depp as an up-and-coming pop star in The Idol to a Phillip Schofield-free British Soap Awards

Television: Depp v Heard, on Channel 4, begins with a blow-by-blow reprisal of last year’s libel trial

From the world’s first social media trial in Depp V Heard to a retelling of the Troubles in Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland

From a concert to mark the coronation of King Charles to Ireland’s Eurovision semi-final

The Problem Prince is a compelling documentary about one of the most extraordinary interviews in the history of British television

Emer McLysaght: The presenters of Channel 4′s Taskmaster have effortlessly introduced Mae Martin

Patrick Freyne: On Scared of the Dark, Danny Dyer has locked eight celebs in a pitch-black bunker. He’s basically the angel of death

In this Channel 4 documentary, Grylls is very good at being earnest and is genuinely moved by the fortitude of Ukraine

Patrick Freyne: Rise and Fall, Channel 4′s new reality show, will be studied by political scientists for years

Television: A fascinating reminder of anarchy and misogyny of British media in 1980s and 1990s

Including Bono & The Edge: A Sort of Homecoming with David Letterman, the Academy Awards and more

Including George Michael: Outed, Réaltaí na Gaeltachta, The Dry and more

The journalist skillfully identifies inequality as the root of many social ills, but does not prescribe solutions

The veteran broadcaster has written a memoir. Here he discusses his boarding school misery, wars in Central America and why Boris Johnson is a chancer

Television: As property-makeover show, it’s fine. As a profile in celebrity, it stands on flaky foundations

Including Dancing with the Stars, Carnival Row, Full Swing, Liam Brady: The Irishman Abroad and The Gold

Television: The Channel 4 drama is a grimly plausible account of a sexual assault and ensuing cover-up at a posh English school

Patrick Freyne: If you enjoy muck, tears and vomit and feel nothing but warmness towards the British military, then SAS: Who Dares Wins is for you

While it may set the antenna of Irish viewers tingling, the Channel 4 sitcom fails to land its punches

Someone should have shredded Joe Lycett’s itinerary and asked him to work harder at bringing the real Dublin to the screen

(Is This The Way To) Amarillo singer saw specialist after starting to forget people’s names

New year, new media habits: these simple changes can reinvigorate tired routines

There’s Mrs Brown’s Boys to First Dates Ireland and a whole lot more

Television: Prince Andrew – The Musical lands like Spitting Image soundtracked by Gilbert and Sullivan

Including The Banshees of Inisheerin, Glass Onion, Motherland, Chariots of Fire, Marie Antoinette, How Ireland Rocked the 80s, and Callan Kicks the Year

Television: Vardy v Rooney – A Courtroom Drama features lots of grim grilling of the footballers’ wives by their respective megabucks barristers

The real heavy lifting in this dark drama comes from the star’s real-life daughter, Mia Threapleton

Sale of broadcaster set to be one of many low-priority policies to be scrapped

Television: What C4 has served up is surface-level exploration of what ‘cancellation’ means leaving little room for nuance

Television: Channel 4 and the BBC are marking 40 and 100 years on air in very different ways

All-Ireland semi-final in the Aviva Stadium on the cards if Leinster and Munster prevail

Streaming of broadcasters’ content still higher than before Covid, says Core

It’s good to highlight the Paralympians’ stories, but let’s not take our eyes off the action