Channel 4: where did it all go wrong?
Once acclaimed for its creativity and originality, the broadcaster is now a purveyor of cheap reality TV and manufactured sensationalism
ITV
British broadcaster
TV goes for gold with Wordle and Golden Elevator gameshows – but will it hit the jackpot?
No idea is too odd for television amid plans for scaled-up word puzzle, a Big Break reboot and a ‘psychological battlefield’ in a lift lobby
All about the Bass – Frank McNally on a Joycean angle to a million-pound question
No small beer for winner of TV quizshow’s jackpot
TV guide: the best new shows to watch this week
April 18th-24th highlights, including Mint, Super Garden, The Neighbourhood and Unchosen
TV guide: The best new shows to watch, starting tonight
March 28th-April 3rd highlights, including Grace, Race Across the World, and Your Friends & Neighbors
London’s Burning actor John Alford dies in prison
Alford was serving an eight-and-a-half-year sentence for sexual offences against two teenage girls
TV guide: the best new shows to watch, starting tonight
February 8th-14th highlights, including Lord of the Flies, The Summit, and How to Get to Heaven from Belfast
ITV to screen ads during scrum breaks in Six Nations
Tonight’s Six Nations match between Ireland and France includes the option to air two split-screen adverts before a scrum is set
Love Island villa evacuated and filming postponed due to wildfires
Ronan Keating’s son Jack was due to join cast in ITV spin-off dating show
Warning: These 2025 TV shows and films contain scenes of a workplace nature
I’m taking a break from the ‘gradual erosion of self-worth’ and staying firmly in outie mode
‘Badly done, Emma!’ Jane Austen needed only a picnic to torment her readers
As film and TV adaptations prove, there has never been a more excruciating group outing than the one in Emma
YouTuber Angryginge wins I’m A Celebrity
Tom Read Wilson finishes runner-up while Shona McGarty comes third
Nigel Farage hits out at broadcasters as racism allegations continue to mount
Reform UK leader lashes out at BBC and ITV as more former classmates come forward with accounts of racist behaviour from his school years
Vogue Williams set to enter I’m A Celebrity jungle
Mother-of-three says she will miss her children the most during her time in the jungle
Would a male pundit ever be described as ‘the Fred West of football commentary’?
Women soccer commentators still regular targets for prejudice and misogyny
Global shares down as US government shutdown and AI anxieties take centre stage
Iseq index down 0.9% as banks, Ryanair and house builders slide
Pauline Collins: The actor whose most celebrated roles held a sense of sly intelligence
Collins was part of Killarney’s New Irish Players in the 1960s before going on to earn her Oscar nomination
James Whale obituary: Controversial British radio presenter known for ‘shock jock’ style
He was also an extra in TV shows such as Z Cars and Doctor Who
Tubs in a topper, RTÉ on its uppers: Patrick Freyne can see clearly now
Ryan Tubridy’s return of €150,000 to his old employer, plus eight other TV moments I missed while I was away reading books and smelling flowers
TV guide: the best new shows to watch this week
July 19th-25th: including Mrs Robinson, Karen Pirie and Baz Luhrmann’s Faraway Downs
TV guide: the best new shows to watch, starting tonight
Including Anna Haugh’s Big Irish Food Tour, A Deadly American Marriage, Malpractice and more
Genius Game review: David Tennant’s new show deserves to be sent to dunce’s corner
Television review: Doctor Who star’s baffling new show is a shameless Traitors rip-off
Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes review - Horribly riveting retelling of police killing an innocent man
Television: If only Irish drama displayed the same willingness to unpack our own scandals and dark secrets
TV guide: the best new shows to watch on RTÉ, BBC, UTV, E4, Disney+ and Apple TV+
TV Highlights April 26-May 2
Unforgotten star Sinéad Keenan: ‘UCD had an awful lot of arty-farty people. I felt, oh Jesus, I can’t compete with that’
The Dublin actor got her break in Fair City more than 20 years ago but left for London soon after. Now she plays Jess James, the Irish top copper in ITV’s acclaimed cold-case crime drama
LIV Golf strikes deal with ITV to bring free-to-air coverage of 2025 season
Tom McKibbin tied third after strong start on his debut in Riyadh
Should RTÉ stop showing Chitty Chitty Bang Bang so much?
Minister for Media Patrick O’Donovan says reruns of old films won’t cut it for Montrose. Who’s going to break the news to Dick Van Dyke?
Daniel O’Donnell says friend was scammed by a fake social media account posing as him
Friend had already sent money via Apple Pay when ruse was discovered
Christmas TV takes the Casablanca approach – rounding up the usual suspects
Ghost of Christmas Past does overtime as broadcasters make viewers nostalgic for a time when nostalgia was a little less creaky
Maura Higgins on entering I’m A Celebrity: I’m scared of everything but this is a ‘pinch-me moment’
Love Island star Higgins ‘absolutely petrified’ of eating challenges and has ‘never slept outside before’
Hot Rabbi but no Lord Baddingham as Netflix basks in ‘member happiness’
The streaming market leader missed a trick by not having Rivals on its platform, but it does like to make the odd pop at its actual rivals
Phillip Schofield announces death of mother after ‘heartbreaking weekend’
Former This Morning presenter thanked paramedics in a post on Instagram
Phillip Schofield: jaw-dropping Cast Away finale as the ex-presenter burns the names of his enemies and runs naked into the sea
Television: The former ITV presenter seems determined to hold everyone accountable - except for himself
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