TV guide: the best new shows to watch this week
August 3nd-8th: including North Circular, Cooking with the Stars, Fleadh25, MasterChef and Platonic
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Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV+: 10 of the best new shows to stream in August
Plenty of choice, including Hostage, Wednesday, Alien: Earth and Love Is Blind: UK
Lady Gaga: Mayhem review – An awkward attempt to re-create the magic of Bad Romance and Born This Way
Lady Gaga sounds as if her creative batteries are running on empty, leaving the star adrift in karaoke limbo
Grammy Awards 2025 in pictures
Winners at the Grammy Awards 2025 include Beyonce, Kendrick Lamar, Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roan
Film officials were warned ‘wholly inappropriate’ Joker sequel could cause ‘significant harm’ to children
Documents show variety of complaints to Irish Film Classification Office this year about film ratings
Joker: Folie à Deux - Why has it been such a catastrophic box-office failure?
The film’s nosedive will have repercussions for the still-floundering DC and beyond
Confidence Man: ‘We wanted to create something that was surreal and immersive’
Adrenaline-fuelled, London-based Brisbane band may be a couple, siblings or life-long friends but their dance music antics have brought them to the brink of stardom
Joker: Folie à Deux review – a drab affair that never quite gets started, but it’s probably still worth it
Even if this proposition didn’t work out, it would be the right sort of failure
Lady Gaga: Harlequin review – Joker companion album brings unsettling unpredictability to razzle-dazzle show tunes
Harley Quinn, the star’s character in Joker: Folie à Deux, affected her so much that the singer wanted to make an album reflecting Quinn’s complexities
First Look at Joker: Folie à Deux – Part musical, part prison movie, mostly plodding courtroom drama
Venice International Film Festival 2024: Any more songs and Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga would be starring in an operetta
Why George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Lady Gaga and Joaquin Phoenix will be at Venice film festival
Among the highlights at this year’s beano are the Joker sequel, Angelina Jolie as Maria Callas, and Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language film
Visionary designer Iris Van Herpen combines technology with craftsmanship in ways like no other
With fans including Lady Gaga, Beyoncé and Gigi Hadid, Van Herpen’s fashion designs are as innovative as they are beautiful
Venice film festival 2024: Angelina Jolie, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Nicole Kidman and Lady Gaga among stellar line-up
Todd Phillips’s Joker: Folie à Deux, starring Joaquin Phoenix, lands as the flashiest film in competition
Give Me a Crash Course in ... the new Rolling Stones album released this weekend
A new Rolling Stones album? Aren’t they on a greatest-hits tour until the end of time?
Rolling Stones: Hackney Diamonds – These stone-cold crackers are the band’s best songs in decades
Review: No one expects the band’s quality control to scale the heights of yesteryear, but this collection is more than a pleasant surprise
Liza Minnelli was ‘forced’ to appear in wheelchair at Oscars, claims friend
Longtime collaborator Michael Feinstein alleges the wheelchair was against her wishes
Twitter enters hand-over-mouth era as Musk becomes its biggest fish
‘Distractions’ loom as billionaire opts to stay off board and asks if app is ‘dying’
Grammy awards 2022: Olivia Rodrigo and Silk Sonic triumph
Ukraine’s president Zelenskiy makes cameo at scandal free ceremony after Oscars chaos
Will Smith breaks character – after 40 years playing the energetic, merry prankster
Oscars 2022 should have been the culmination of Smith’s extraordinary career. But he snapped
Baftas 2022: Belfast edged out by The Power of the Dog
Kenneth Branagh’s film takes just one prize as Joanna Scanlan is ‘surprise’ best actress
Screen Actors Guild awards 2022: Will Smith, Squid Game and Coda win big
'Now I feel I’m finally part of the family': Troy Kotsur, first deaf actor to win award
Donald Clarke: Oscars turn to Twitter in attempt to reverse plummeting TV ratings
Hashtag horror: US viewers to vote for #OscarsFanFavourite and #OscarsCheerMoment
Oscars 2022: Will any Irish nominees win? Will Lady Gaga’s snub break the internet?
Donald Clarke: Here are 10 key questions on this year's Oscars nominations
Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations: The list in full
Some of Hollywood’s biggest names are among the nominees for the 28th SAG awards
Irish creatives mix food and fashion by pairing hats to cakes
Margaret O’Connor and Jess Murphy combine millinery and patisserie in new project
Art&Antiques: Diamonds and sapphires good enough for Lady Gaga
Adam’s fine jewellery and watch sale includes picks by Irish designer Paula Rowan
Love Object: New Flesh review – Electroclash revivalists’ mysterious debut
Russian duo combine catchy electro pop and mechanical, almost icy beats to good effect
Lady Gaga: ‘When I got back from Italy, I threw out my cigarettes, threw out the booze’
The singer discusses her role in House of Gucci with film director Ridley Scott
Fibromyalgia: Chronic pain syndrome remains a medical mystery
One in 50 people suffer from the condition, which can include cognitive impairments, anxiety, muscle tenderness and sleep disturbance
European shares soar after slump on Evergrande worries
Music label Universal Music Group soared 38 per cent in its stock market debut
Angela Bassett on success, salaries and staying power: ‘I gotta find a new queen to play’
The Tina Turner actor on fairness in pay, film-making and why acting is still her first love
Sarah Harding, untameable to the end, left a vital last message
Girls Aloud was a manufactured entity. ‘Hardcore Harding’ was anything but
Beyoncé’s wearing a 128-carat diamond in this ad. Would it make you buy Tiffany jewellery?
The jeweller has enlisted the singer and Jay-Z for its latest rebrand. But it could backfire
Mark Ronson: ‘I wish I’d been more upfront about Amy Winehouse’s addiction’
The producer on therapy, paparazzi – and being tucked in by Robin Williams
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