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The glory days of streaming are over, but TV has never been more unpredictable
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Including Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, Squid Game season two, Beast Games, Harry Potter: Wizards of Baking and One Hundred Years of Solitude
Cruel Intentions review: Bring back the oversexed, amoral rich kids. This remake is joyless, ludicrous and dull
Television: The only reason the series exists is to cash in on nostalgia for the original camp masterpiece
Chilean football club owner settles defamation action over Amazon Prime show
Spanish businessman Jorge Segovia Bonet took case in Irish High Court against streaming TV giant over its drama series El Presidente
Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV+: 10 of the best new shows to watch in November
Including Bad Sisters season two, Say Nothing, Senna, Countdown: Paul vs Tyson and more
Amazon to increase number of advertisements on Prime Video
Ecommerce group attempting to win over more brands as it steps up push into ad-funded streaming services in 2025
Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV+: 10 of the best new shows to watch in October
Including Disclaimer, Rivals, The Last Days of the Space Age, La Máquina and Citadel: Diana
Watch as these bellowing beasts – the three kinds of ageing Englishman – roam the plains one last time
On The Grand Tour: One for the Road, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May bow out of their Prime Video car show
The Grand Tour: One for the Road review - As Clarkson, Hammond and May motor into the great beyond, is this the end of car TV?
Television: Their brand of television is Marmite on wheels, and some will cheer their departure, but is this the end for car-based telly?
Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV+: 10 of the best new shows to watch in September
Including Slow Horses series four, WandaVision spin-off Agatha All Along, a final Grand Tour, and Eve Hewson and Nicole Kidman in The Perfect Couple
The billion-dollar Rings of Power is part of the weird new age of television
Prime Video is investing untold amounts in its Lord of the Rings fantasy. But the fastest-growing new streamer has a very different approach
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season 2 review – The good news is that the wonky Irish accents are gone
Television: The Rings of Power is still hugely flawed attempt to turn Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings into Star Wars with staves
First Look: The Rings of Power unveils Ciarán Hinds’s new character in blockbuster Lord of the Rings series
Oscar-nominated Irish star of The Dry, Kin and Belfast plays a ‘Dark Wizard’ as hit Tolkien spin-off returns
Sky, Netflix, Virgin and sports: How to manage your TV and streaming expenses
Special offers, contract savings and why you should try to swerve the new ‘streaming TV’ services if you like recording programmes
The 50 best films on Netflix, plus gems from Disney+, Apple TV+, Prime Video and Paramount+
From Arrival to The Zone of Interest, our picks also take in everything from Halloween and Lost in Translation to Lawrence of Arabia and Pinocchio
Anthony Hopkins’s new prestige drama has given me a great idea. It involves buttocks
Those About to Die: Anyone can achieve their dreams if their father is an emperor
Those About to Die review: Peeved Anthony Hopkins thrown to the lions in over-sexed ancient Rome epic
Television: Nobody can keep their robes on for longer than 10 minutes at a time in Roland Emmerich’s splashy, trashy Amazon show
Clarkson’s Farm review: Farming is tough nowadays – even for millionaire dabblers bankrolled by Jeff Bezos
Television review: Jeremy Clarkson turns misty-eyed over the fate of his cattle. Top Gear fans will be shocked
Patrick Freyne’s favourite TV shows of 2024: An Irish national treasure, bickering hitfolk and the best actor of her generation
Andrew Scott in Ripley and Donald Glover and Maya Erskine in Mr & Mrs Smith are among the highlights thus far
JLo seems not so much to mix metaphors as to cut them with coke
Patrick Freyne: As the singer clambers into her own heart in her musical fantasia, an uncharitable critic might suggest she is climbing up a different body part
This Is Me … Now: A Love Story review: Jennifer Lopez’s bizarre film is always watchable
Television: Self-funded streaming project manages to be a lot of things while also being nothing at all
Mr & Mrs Smith review: Sharon Horgan makes a cameo in this joyless clunker
Television: Donald Glover’s dour thriller is blunt reminder that some things are best left in the past
Last One Laughing Ireland: Behind the scenes with Graham Norton and Aisling Bea on the new Irish comedy show
How do you stop yourself from laughing, or even smiling, and what does it do to your psyche if you do? A new Prime Video series sees 10 Irish comics strive to keep a straight face
Say what you like about Hannibal Lecter, but he had joie de vivre. Unlike Jack Reacher
Patrick Freyne: The show, which stars the widest Alan in existence, is the United States’ id as expressed by a malfunctioning AI
Vodafone launches TV product for Irish customers
Platform gives customers access to more than 100 live channels
The Burial: Jamie Foxx and Tommy Lee Jones buddy up for a fun 1990s courtroom throwback
Watching this energetic drama, it is almost hard to believe this is inspired by a true story
The Continental: John Wick’s world turns into an all Irish affair and not a begorrah in sight
Television: Irish intonations aside, is it any good? Yes – provided you appreciate the manic gunplay of the Keanu Reeves movies
TV guide: 15 of the best new shows to watch, beginning tonight
Neighbours returns for a new era, while The Continental delves into the world of John Wick
Julia Louis-Dreyfus: ‘I don’t think of ageing as a negative – I’m actually delighted to be the age I am’
Star of Seinfeld and new film You Hurt My Feelings talks about her dark days on Saturday Night Live, ageing and sexism
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