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Television: LA suburbia-set series is just too miserable to make viewers laugh. It’s like the grimmest ever season of Location, Location, Location
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Industry-first analysis of the streamer’s own data confirms preschool titles originating on YouTube dominate its list of best performers
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It’s a cliffhanger moment for the Irish screen industry. Will producers here be boosted by the kind of levy on streamers now commonly found across the EU?
South Korean drama of a fictional kind as Netflix winds up the Squid Game hype machine in Paris
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Hot Frosty, Netflix’s latest reboot of The Snowman, at last brings some ‘hubba-hubba, vroom-vroom, arooooga!’ to Raymond Briggs’s family favourite
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Our Little Secret: Awkward! Lindsay Lohan’s Christmas flick may as well be AI generated
Ho ho ho, it’s a dull-witted, soundstage-bound romance with festive trimmings and a clockwork plot
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Because of the timing, the depth of what Taylor achieved here may not have fully registered as a genuinely great moment for Irish sport
Katie Taylor narrowly defeats Amanda Serrano in brutal contest
Irish boxer booed by crowd after head clash during controversial bout in Texas
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Mike Tyson and Jake Paul top the bill in a voyeuristic contest whose appeal may have been overestimated
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Despite his absurd persona and obscene wealth, would-be boxer’s support of female fighters is worthy of note
Mike Tyson’s glowering silence cuts through Netflix show noise
Tyson is set to earn $20 million for fighting Jake Paul in live-streamed event that also features Katie Taylor-Amanda Serrano rematch
Dave Hannigan: Katie Taylor’s presence lends a modicum of dignity to sporting farrago
Dubious bill in Texas topped by the clash of Jake Paul and Mike Tyson akin to one of those 19th century carnival sideshows
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Katie Taylor: ‘If you’re a boxing person it really matters Mike Tyson does well against Jake Paul’
World super lightweight champion faces Amanda Serrano in Texas on Friday night
Core’s Aidan Greene: ‘Amazon.ie will be a gamechanger for Irish advertising clients’
The marketing communications group grew its net profit to more than €4m last year and has expanded again in 2024
In Washington, the peaceful transfer of power surprises a city boarded up for violence
Planet Business: Royal private estate income, data-hungry air fryers and the companies keen for it to be Christmas already
Bill Nighy: ‘My grandmother kind of raised me. She was a proper Irish woman, a Catholic. I was to be a priest’
Love Actually actor talks about running away as a teenager, begging in Paris and breaking into acting
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The Movie Quiz: In what Irish town is Cillian Murphy’s Small Things Like These set?
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There’s a good reason why the Guinness World Records team has banned attempts to stay awake
If you’re self employed, the time has come to file your tax return and avoid nasty surprises from Revenue
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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
Netflix beats forecasts in every major metric
Streaming service has added more than 60m users since cracking down on passwords
Netflix telling of Menendez murders chimes with elements of US election
Debate around dramatisation of dark family crime takes place within society populated by guns, privilege and versions of the truth
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