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The Hawk on Netflix: A tin-pot show with Will Ferrell stuck in the bunker
Television: This golf romp tries to replicate the magic of a genre whose time has passed
Politicians bemoan RTÉ’s failures, then make them worse
No enterprise could absorb an 18-year price freeze on its primary revenue stream while costs keep climbing
Little House on the Prairie makes for uneasy reading as an adult
These books are politically wrong, but they’re also well written
Little House on the Prairie’s ethnic-cleansing message really hasn’t dated well
Netflix’s Little House on the Prairie feeds into the fantasy that settlers have a great moral message (‘finders keepers’)
Little House on the Prairie on Netflix: This gritty take on Laura Ingalls’ memoirs is no nostalgia binge
Television: Beautiful to look at and well-acted this revived series is so slow-moving as to appeal only to hardcore Laura Ingalls Wilder fans
Inside Ireland’s chess boom: The ‘national phenomenon’ that is still not recognised as a sport
As the chess boom takes hold, getting official recognition as a sport will unlock funding, says the Irish Chess Union
Sky agrees £1.6bn ITV deal as broadcasters take on streaming rivals
Deal comes as less than a quarter of 16-24-year-olds’ in-home viewing is now of content from broadcasters
Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV: 10 of the best new shows to watch in July
Your guide to streaming, including The Hawk, Elle, a new Little House on the Prairie, Lucky and Furious
Himesh Patel on Enola Holmes 3: ‘The casting decisions were made to tell a very honest story about colonialism’
The actor has gone from his teenage break in EastEnders to playing Dr Watson in Netflix’s Sherlock Holmes franchise, and roles in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey and Ryan Coogler’s The X-Files
Enola Holmes 3 review: Old-school, funhouse yucks with unexpected pockets of grit
Millie Bobby Brown as our daredevil heroine is back and unleashing the right kind of fun
The American Experiment on Netflix: Tom Hanks doc explores the US’s rocky road to ‘greatness’
Television: More than 60 experts, including Mike Pence and Hillary Clinton, weigh in on the US’s origins and enduring fabulosity
Fantastic Kingdom by Helene von Bismarck: Knowledgeable treatise on harm done by Brexit
A writer perfectly placed to examine the impact of this ‘act of self-harm’
I Will Find You review: Harlan Coben deploys new highs of absurdity with typical ruthlessness
Television: This romp adheres rigidly to the Coben blueprint and is all the richer for its silliness and its refusal to be boring
Tyra Banks sues Netflix over America’s Next Top Model documentary
Lawsuit contends ‘selective editing’ and ‘surgical manipulation’ were used to create narrative
World Cup 2026: Don’t fancy a middle-of-the-night match? Try these eye-opening TV shows instead
There is a host of football-themed programming airing at sensible times, just to get you in the mood
Croke Park stadium director expects sell-out Katie Taylor fight
Peter McKenna says ‘expertise’ behind marketing campaign will help fill 82,300 capacity
Does it matter if Belle Burden’s controversial divorce memoir doesn’t tell the whole truth?
Women don’t explicitly promise to love, honour and surrender their financial autonomy in marriage, but many do anyway
TV guide: the best new shows to watch, starting tonight
June 7th to 12th highlights, including Backstory, Britney: In Ten Pictures, Total Football and Queen James
RTÉ’s familiar faces stuck on the sidelines again for World Cup’s footballing feast
RTÉ’s familiar faces stuck on the sidelines again for World Cup’s footballing feast
So US aristocrat Belle Burden was never going to be broke after her divorce. Who knew?
A New Yorker article indicates the author of bestselling memoir Strangers had minimised her personal wealth
Netflix’s Reed Hastings: An icon of good leadership and bad governance
Streamer’s co-founder steps away as his progeny faces its biggest challenge
Owain Rhys Davies: Twin Peaks actor dies aged 44
Davies starred as Agent Wilson in a reboot of David Lynch and Mark Frost’s hit series in 2017
Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV: 10 of the best new shows to watch in June
Your guide to streaming, including Clarkson’s Farm, The Bear, Sugar, Michael Jackson: The Verdict and Not Suitable for Work
The Four Seasons, season two: Steve Carell was right to bail on this show about pampered midlife Americans
Television: Tina Fey is the best thing here, and even she always seems just one eye-roll away from shrugging her shoulders and exiting
Patrick Freyne: I lose count of how many people the Punisher kills over 50 minutes
Patrick Freyne: I lose count of how many people the Punisher kills over the course of 50 minutes
Irish film-maker on directing Kylie Minogue’s documentary: ‘She walked in with an energy. I was totally blown away’
The Irish documentary-maker thought he was the hardest-working person he knew. But that was before he met Kylie Minogue
The Boroughs on Netflix: Stranger Things creators hit up the pensioners in this pacy murder mystery
Television: Boomer bigwigs Geena Davis, Bill Pullman and Alfred Molina top the bill in this supernatural amateur detective romp
Kylie Minogue’s Netflix documentary: Why Ireland was one of the most controversial moments of her career and 11 other things I learned
Television: The Australian soap star-turned-global celebrity revisits her lifetime in the spotlight in a new three-part Netflix series
Humans may be on the way out. But at least the humanities are back
Maybe the lords of the cloud hope truth and beauty can help us steer artificial intelligence for the better
TV guide: the best new shows to watch, starting tonight
May 17th-22nd highlights, including Tradfluencer: The Sharon Shannon Story; Derek Mooney’s Back from the Brink; and Lucy Worsley on The American Revolution
‘A wake-up call for every country’: public service broadcasting in crisis
A century on from the birth of public-service media, even the Continent’s heavyweight outlets resemble endangered species
From Game of Thrones to Star Wars: Pedro Pascal’s slow road to the Hollywood blockbuster
After the struggle of career-building, actor says it’s ‘very fitting’ that the longest he’s gotten to play a character is within the Star Wars franchise
Texas accuses Netflix of spying on children and designing platform to be addictive
Streaming company has falsely represented that it did not collect or share user data, when it actually sold it, legal action claims
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