Teletubbies has been rebooted. Is it still the weirdest way to spend 20 minutes?Television: The BBC original charmed kids while triggering lingering dread in their parents. Now Dipsy, Tinky Winky, Laa-Laa and Po are rebooted on NetflixMon Nov 14 2022 - 12:02
Reluctant TikTok star: Going viral was a new experience for Beach Bunny’s Lili TrifilioThe band have been compared to Olivia Rodrigo, and less plausibly, The CranberriesSat Nov 12 2022 - 05:00
The English: Ciarán Hinds is marvellously villainous. Emily Blunt dons a Mary Poppins dress and an Eli Wallach scowlTelevision: The BBC’s new series looks like a western but never particularly feels like oneFri Nov 11 2022 - 00:00
I’m a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here! Matt Hancock arrives to stunned looks. Buckle up. There’s no telling how weird this could getTelevision: ‘I can’t help thinking he should be at work,’ Chris Moyles says of the UK’s former health secretary. Boy George looks as if he might quit in disgustWed Nov 09 2022 - 23:12
Secrets from the Showroom: The Office meets Top Gear meets Glengarry Glen RossTV review: It could have been a cruise down misery boulevard, but RTÉ’s portrait of used-car salespeople is appealingly quirkyTue Nov 08 2022 - 13:56
I’m a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here! With no Matt Hancock, it’s a bungle in the jungleTelevision: Without the show’s highest-profile contestant, episode 1 feels like a phoney warSun Nov 06 2022 - 23:49
The Crown season five contains a king’s ransom of inaccuracies. But never mind thatTelevision: Truth and fiction mingle in the Netflix royal drama’s new series. Its showrunner, Peter Morgan, has never pretended otherwiseSat Nov 05 2022 - 08:01
Relentless: The Connacht Way feels like a rugby promo reel, all ruck’n’roll hagiographyTelevision: RTÉ’s hour-long film is watchable and well put together but tells us little about Connacht rugby or its fansThu Nov 03 2022 - 23:15
‘This is not easy for me at all’: Gráinne Seoige makes a deeply personal, sometimes bleak filmTelevision: In Meanapás: Meon Nua, the broadcaster doesn’t try to sell a Hallmark vision of menopause as an opportunity for renewal or self-knowledgeWed Nov 02 2022 - 22:30
First Aid Kit: ‘We couldn’t believe what was happening to us. We just kept going’Sisters are one of the decade’s greatest country rock institutions even if they hail from suburban Stockholm rather than downtown NashvilleSat Oct 29 2022 - 05:00
Kanye West: A creative giant falls to earth, brought down by his own monstrous statementsYe, the hip-hop and fashion colossus, was until recently living proof that, if you’re famous and rich enough, ‘cancel culture’ does not applyThu Oct 27 2022 - 14:21
Build Your Own Home. Just don’t be surprised if the bank won’t fund itIn RTE’s new property show, the bank learns the couple aren’t hiring professionals - and pulls the fundingWed Oct 26 2022 - 22:35
Jimmy Carr Destroys Art: High budget, low concept TVTelevision: What C4 has served up is surface-level exploration of what ‘cancellation’ means leaving little room for nuanceWed Oct 26 2022 - 15:01
My Massive ****: Andy the Dubliner is all jitters. ‘I’m a little nervous. What if it’s not that big?’Television: Channel 4 and the BBC are marking 40 and 100 years on air in very different waysTue Oct 25 2022 - 12:40
Carmen Villain: ‘Model-turned-musician is such a cliche’The Norwegian musician on emerging from the shadow of depression with her critically acclaimed current albumTue Oct 25 2022 - 05:00
House of the Dragon finale review: An orgy of screaming dragons, dying princes and a gruesome stillbirthTelevision: Consider our passion for the Seven Kingdoms thoroughly rebooted. This review contains spoilersMon Oct 24 2022 - 22:10
Dry Cleaning’s Florence Shaw: ‘Life’s a mess ... Things that are black and white frighten me a bit’Not-so-overnight post-punk sensations favour the elliptical over the directly political even if one of their new songs is called Conservative HellSat Oct 22 2022 - 05:00
The Peripheral: Chloë Grace Moretz and Jack Reynor star in stay-in-and-binge prestige TV of the highest quality Television: William Gibson’s sci-fi stories haven’t always worked well on screen. This one nails itFri Oct 21 2022 - 16:25
Taylor Swift: Midnights — A tangled, twisting tour de force that will keep you wide awakeA thread of feverishness ripples through the record, perhaps the most angst-infused the singer has yet released since ReputationFri Oct 21 2022 - 05:01
The most violent show on TV returns, with more roaring geezers and geysers of goreTelevision: Gangs of London, with its roaring geezers and geysers of gore, has everything fans will want as it returns for a second seasonThu Oct 20 2022 - 11:11
Dermot Bannon avoids the preachy architect and ‘property porn’ trapsTelevision: In the midst of a housing crisis, Dermot Bannon’s Incredible Homes must walk a careful lineMon Oct 17 2022 - 05:30
‘For whatever reason, I attract the weirdest people and the weirdest scenarios’Ahead of her Dublin gig, US singer-songwriter Angel Olsen talks about coping with the death of her parents and becoming more confident of her own sexualitySat Oct 15 2022 - 05:00
Rings of Power series review: What a muddle Amazon has made of Middle-earthTelevision: The series was too slow, the finale too rushed, the suspense non-existentFri Oct 14 2022 - 11:15
The Elon Musk Show depicts a soul untroubled by doubt — half-man, half–vaporous ambitionHe’s the most influential entrepreneur of his age but you wouldn’t want to work for himThu Oct 13 2022 - 10:14
How dare you place 50g of food waste in your general bin?Television: Hosted by Maia Dunphy, RTÉ's What Planet Are You On? is like an environmental confession boxTue Oct 11 2022 - 20:00
Brendan Gleeson hosts his first Saturday Night Live. It doesn’t go wellTelevision: He’s one of Ireland’s great actors. But, even when he’s joined by Colin Farrell, it’s fair to say a future in light entertainment doesn’t beckonMon Oct 10 2022 - 05:30
Bill Callahan: ‘America is a very fractured country. We’re not one people’The pessimism of Bill Callahan, the American singer-songwriter, has been tempered by parenthoodMon Oct 10 2022 - 05:00
‘When people say you’ve got a Rugby World Cup medal I feel like a phoney. I can’t remember it’Television: Rugby, Dementia and Me is a moving portrait of Steve Thompson, the former England hooker, whose years on the pitch damaged his brainWed Oct 05 2022 - 22:05
Monday Night Live: The misery express is chugging straight for your living roomTelevision: Oh for Claire Byrne Live, the plague shed and a sprinkling of lunacy to help the misery go downTue Oct 04 2022 - 11:15
The Two Johnnies could be part of Irish life for the foreseeable futureTV review: In The Two Johnnies Do America their persona is that of minor hurlers who’ve got lost on their J1 holidayMon Oct 03 2022 - 22:52
Suzanne Ciani: Diode diva surfs crest of synth wavePioneer of electronic music has prospered in 50-year career despite often playing into the voidSat Oct 01 2022 - 05:04
The Old Man: For Jeff Bridges, finally free of The Big Lebowski, this thriller feels like the start of something newTV: Disney+'s spy series is slow and talky. But it’s worth slogging through to see Bridges and John Lithgow throw sparks off one anotherThu Sept 29 2022 - 15:10
This England review: If you can stomach the material, this show is hugely watchableMichael Winterbottom’s dramatisation of UK’s Covid response portrays Boris Johnson as buffoonish and vain yet essentially well intentionedWed Sept 28 2022 - 15:11
Budget 2023 on TV: David McCullagh and Vivienne Traynor look frosty. RTÉ must have turned off the heat already Today’s coverage intersperses apocalyptic dread with light banter. Sounds like life in general at the momentTue Sept 27 2022 - 19:43
The Kardashians: Khloé’s pain is real. And, just for a moment, the family’s true emotions break through TV review: The show focuses so tightly on presenting the clan as the ultimate role models that there’s normally no room for any hint of grit or messinessThu Sept 22 2022 - 13:12
Crossfire: The BBC should stick to nature docs, and leave action thrillers to the pros TV review: Not even Keeley Hawes’s committed performance can stop Crossfire missing the targetWed Sept 21 2022 - 13:38
Garth Brooks, Hannah Montana and prescription-medication dependency: The unusual life of Noah CyrusIn The Hardest Part, Miley’s sister — and Billy Ray’s daughter — has made a searing, unsparing album about her journey through the dark side of popWed Sept 21 2022 - 05:00
Hang on, this woman looks entirely normal. Shouldn’t she be on a drip?TV review: How Long Will You Live?, the RTÉ health series, puts perfectly average people under the microscope to remind us all that we can do a little betterTue Sept 20 2022 - 21:00
Queen Elizabeth’s funeral on TV: There is a degree of culture shock watching Britain grieveTV review: The BBC coverage is so hushed you wonder if you’ve muted the sound by accidentMon Sept 19 2022 - 16:55
The Grand Tour: A Scandi Flick — Cheerful blokey chaos from Clarkson, Hammond and May. Just leave your brain in the glovebox TV review: This tribute to Nordic rally driving is Boy’s Own stuff starring three grumpy geezers from down the pubFri Sept 16 2022 - 12:18
Great British Bake Off: This is television as metaphor for Britain’s anguished psycheTV review: Outside the tent, Elizabeth is gone and Brexit is back. Inside, all is as it was, the sponges squishy, the lemon drizzle drizzlyWed Sept 14 2022 - 10:54
‘We love Ireland. But it’s not a place for young people to start their lives or careers’TV review: RTÉ's Broke casts an unflinching gaze at ordinary families struggling to make ends meetTue Sept 13 2022 - 16:27
Rings of Power: Why are the harfoots hungry simpletons with stage-Irish accents? We ask the showrunnersThe hit Lord of the Rings spin-off has been criticised for veering into stereotype. JD Payne and Patrick McKay explain what they were trying to doTue Sept 13 2022 - 05:00
Morten Harket of A-ha: ‘We were jealous of U2. They didn’t get that Smash Hits-type fame’ Reluctant teen idols in the 1980s, the Norwegian trio have came to terms with their pop pastMon Sept 12 2022 - 05:00
A brand new Irish sketch show on RTÉ? Have they finally cracked the comedy formula?TV review: No Worries If Not goes beyond the traditional talent gene pool by working with Twitter and TikTok successesFri Sept 09 2022 - 14:48
Stuck TV review: Dylan Moran plays himself, but doesn’t quite nail itAs a young man, he played a middle-aged curmudgeon brilliantly. Now he just is oneThu Sept 08 2022 - 22:30
His Massy was classy: The Irish tractor entrepreneur who took on Ford MotorsTV review: Patrick Kielty sketches with pride Harry Ferguson’s ascent from obscure tinkerer to global industrial titanWed Sept 07 2022 - 13:13
Arctic Monkeys at Electric Picnic: Killer riffs and dark wit in a bone-rattling end to the 2022 festivalHeadliners don’t come more reliable and no-nonsense than Alex Turner and his bandmatesMon Sept 05 2022 - 00:35
Electric Picnic 2022: When this happens it’s normally a signal to run for the hillsA record 70,000 people have come to Stradbally this weekend. For festival veterans, there’s a sense of coming homeSun Sept 04 2022 - 19:15
Tame Impala at Electric Picnic: Stradbally has never seen anything quite like thisWith the rain holding off, this performance is the perfect way to close Saturday nightSun Sept 04 2022 - 01:21
