Marty Morrissey is heroically unembarrassable in Marty and Bernard’s Big AdventureReview: This buddy-comedy-meets-makeover-show eventually takes the joke too farSun Mar 31 2019 - 22:35
The Irish Times 22nd Irish Theatre Awards: Villainy triumphs in tales for our timesPeter Crawley’s analysis: It was a big year for villainy as Richard III took top honoursSun Mar 31 2019 - 21:15
Moving the furniture around: This week’s theatre highlightsSonya Kelly’s wonderfully funny Furniture on tour; John Connors considers Ireland’s CallSat Mar 30 2019 - 05:00
Blue Planet Live: Don’t expect a deep dive from the BBCIn the absence of Attenborough’s godly authority, they’ve gone for a ‘cooing-tourist’ presenter styleMon Mar 25 2019 - 14:44
Netflix fails to make sense of the Miami Showband MassacreIn the absence of transparent answers, intricate theories become very seductiveSun Mar 24 2019 - 06:00
Owen Roe: 'How can you study Beckett and not know anything about Laurel and Hardy?'The actor will be honoured at this year's Irish Times Irish Theatre AwardsSat Mar 23 2019 - 05:00
Shoplifters of the world unite: Charlie’s a Clepto is this week’s theatre highlightIn Clare Monnelly’s debut play, a misspelling spins her protagonist into a life of petty crime, but it’s the play’s subtle borrowings and light references that really steal the showSat Mar 23 2019 - 05:00
Mums Make Porn: Tantalising smut meets social responsibilityChannel 4 – who else? – asks concerned parents to make porn they can be proud ofThu Mar 21 2019 - 20:00
Fred and Rosemary West: The clues were all there, for 20 years‘House of Horrors’ show investigates how killers went undetected despite alarm bellsWed Mar 20 2019 - 19:00
Charlie’s a Clepto review: Nimble plotting, nimble performanceClare Monnelly pivots through a range of characters in this revival of her artful debutWed Mar 20 2019 - 10:30
This week’s theatre highlights: Sure Look It, Fuck It and The ChildrenClare Dunne’s exuberant debut, and a challenging moral puzzle at the GateSat Mar 16 2019 - 05:00
After Life: Ricky Gervais’s obnoxious new comedy isn’t funnyReview: His character dabbles in heroin, befriends sex workers and assists a suicideThu Mar 14 2019 - 22:45
Fleabag: The rivetingly funny, then suddenly unfunny comedyReview: Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Olivia Coleman, Fiona Shaw and Andrew Scott shineTue Mar 12 2019 - 12:50
Fertility Shock: Dearbhail McDonald on life without childrenTV Review: The programme veers from global economics to the presenter’s frozen eggsMon Mar 11 2019 - 22:33
This week’s theatre: Country Girls hit the Abbey while Alice returns to WonderlandAbbey Theatre stages O’Brien’s subversive classic as a much safer journey and Blue Raincoat re-re-imagines adventures in Wonderland.Sat Mar 09 2019 - 05:00
Leaving Neverland Part 2: The night Michael Jackson died, ‘I got out of bed and danced’Part 2 of the unflinching documentary is a reckoning for Jackson’s fans and defendersThu Mar 07 2019 - 22:59
The Children review: Brightly disarming, deeply unsettlingSeán McGinley, Marie Mullen and Ger Ryan dazzle in Lucy Kirkwood’s playThu Mar 07 2019 - 12:56
Leaving Neverland: Did the whole world lose its mind about Michael Jackson?Channel 4 documentary is a gruelling watch dismantling the aura the singer createdThu Mar 07 2019 - 08:29
Derry Girls series 2: ‘Catholics really buzz off statues. Protestants don’t so much’Review: The Channel 4 comedy gives its characters a normal life in difficult timesTue Mar 05 2019 - 22:15
The real hard border is between people who don’t want one and those who can live with oneReview: ‘A hard border wouldn’t upset me,’ says one contributor to RTÉ’s Bordering on BrexitTue Mar 05 2019 - 11:15
The Examination review: No easy escapes in Brokentalkers’ sly, provocative playThe irreverent company’s absorbing production interrogates the Irish Prison ServiceTue Mar 05 2019 - 09:52
Louis Theroux treats rape and consent as a freak showA documentary about consent on US campuses is too sensationalist to teach us anythingMon Mar 04 2019 - 22:22
Peat review: A grimly funny, spryly involving show for young audiencesTwo boys dig up more than anyone bargained for in Kate Heffernan’s subtle playMon Mar 04 2019 - 12:38
Best theatre: You’ll dig Peat and be held captive by The ExaminationA witty play about weighty matters; and a prison drama drawn from real lifeSat Mar 02 2019 - 05:00
The Country Girls review: Subversion reimagined as sentimentalityThe Abbey’s new take makes Edna O’Brien’s novel safe for any syllabusFri Mar 01 2019 - 14:14
Junk Food Experiment: A stupid, dangerous and boring TV showPeter Andre and friends go on an overfeeding diet in the interests of ratings – I mean, scienceThu Feb 28 2019 - 21:44
Child Genius: Whose bright idea was this oddly sinister TV show?Channel 4 spends as much time scrutinising the children’s families as it does testing intellectsWed Feb 27 2019 - 12:45
This Time With Alan Partridge: A wicked study in prejudice and panic‘Guess who’s back in the big time?’ he gloats in hilarious first episode of new showMon Feb 25 2019 - 22:00
About a boy: Hamnet heads up this week’s theatre highlightsMeet Shakespeare’s lost son at the Project, and don’t be late for your own funeral in CorkSat Feb 23 2019 - 05:00
Dating Around: Compulsively watchable TV with impossibly gorgeous peopleThe new Netflix show sends one person on five identically structured datesThu Feb 21 2019 - 05:43
Now You See Me: When cyclists and motorists collideReview: In RTÉ’s new road safety magazine show, do cyclists or motorists have to give an inch?Tue Feb 19 2019 - 14:00
The Umbrella Academy: Robert Sheehan and Ellen Page drenched in superhero washoutReview: The Netflix show is too mature for kids and too juvenile for grown upsTue Feb 19 2019 - 06:00
Russian Doll: Why it’s the must-stream hit of the yearWith echoes of Groundhog Day, Natasha Lyonne, Amy Poehler and Leslye Headland’s sublime comedy is anyting but ordinaryMon Feb 18 2019 - 16:30
Inside Ireland’s Largest Prison: ‘They’re getting out worse than they went in’Jail is meant to be rehabilitative, but this is nobody’s idea of a recovery programmeThu Feb 14 2019 - 14:47
Glasgow Girls review: A self-aware musical urging solidarity through songIn this galvanising take on a true story about Scottish teenagers who stood up for an asylum-seeking friend, you have to park your cynicism to believe change is possibleThu Feb 14 2019 - 13:20
Inside the Real Saudi Arabia: Halted conversations, blurred faces and controlling fixersBasma Kahlifa’s personal documentary for BBC starts slowly and ends in a panicked exitWed Feb 13 2019 - 15:49
Heather review: If you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, should you judge it by its author?A timely production of Thomas Eccleshare’s two-hander tries to separate an author’s successful fiction from the writer’s darker untruthsMon Feb 11 2019 - 12:53
David Bowie: ‘He loved himself extremely. Always did’Review: ‘Finding Fame’ doc says Bowie spent his life trying to win his mother’s approvalSun Feb 10 2019 - 15:50
The week's theatre highlights: Glasgow Girls and The Cripple of InishmaanMartin McDonagh’s scabrous comedy at the Gaiety; stirring Glasgow Girls musical at the Abbey is timely for more than one reasonSat Feb 09 2019 - 05:00
Operation Transformation: Leo Varadkar – 40-year-old meat-free gym bunny – is actually 53Review: The Taoiseach takes a metabolic age test, but questions the science behind the resultThu Feb 07 2019 - 05:46
Where would you shoot a child, the head or the heart?The documentary ‘Training Teachers to Kill’ deftly probes a vexed issue for US schoolsWed Feb 06 2019 - 10:06
The Irish Revolution: Few cared if the 1916 rebels lived or died – until they diedReview: RTÉ’s War of Independence documentary tells us who we are, and who we wereMon Feb 04 2019 - 22:40
Theatre highlights: A bracing documentary on HIV in IrelandLook out for ‘Rapids’, about life with HIV by Shaun Dunne, and the Abbey’s 24-hour playsSat Feb 02 2019 - 05:00
Photographing the Troubles: ‘I thought I had lost my humanity’RTÉ doc compares the chroniclers of the Troubles to accidental war photographersThu Jan 31 2019 - 12:36
Pure review: Rarely has a filthy mind seemed so squeaky cleanC4 drama struggles to depict its heroine’s obsession with ‘sex that gets you arrested’Wed Jan 30 2019 - 22:45
The Cripple of Inishmaan review: Outlandish tales and dark distortionsThis new production of Martin McDonagh’s comedy is wise not to play it straightWed Jan 30 2019 - 14:00
The BBC makes a tragic hero of poor David CameronReview: ‘Inside Europe: Ten Years of Turmoil’ explores how Britain got into this messTue Jan 29 2019 - 14:18
Total recall: Two theatre revivals full of rememberingDonal O’Kelly returns to ‘Bat the Father, Rabbit the Son’, 30 years after its debut. Doireann Coady continues to count the days since her brother’s suicide in ‘I’m Not Here’Sat Jan 26 2019 - 05:00
A dying man and the documentary he knew he would never see‘I’m gutted I won’t be able to see this,’ John tells Horizon’s programme on facing deathThu Jan 24 2019 - 12:41
Prime Time transgender report is ‘delicate, if a little patronising’TV Review: Contributions of ‘Fr Ted’ writer Graham Linehan are ‘fantastically off-topic’Wed Jan 23 2019 - 05:52
