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The 60-year-old presenter faces allegations of inappropriate sexual comments from 13 people across a range of shows over 17 years

Books newsletter: a preview of Saturday’s pages; Profiles launch and show; John Calder Prize; Bookselling Ireland promotion

Theatre: The annual extravaganza, written, choreographed and directed by Daryn Crosbie, features terrific performances from the Billie Barry Kids

The American singer-songwriter is set to play at the Aviva next June, and demand for tickets will be high

No casting officially confirmed but names are being discussed, including Paul Mescal as McCartney

The Indian director’s Mumbai-set second feature is, like Wings of Desire, one of the great city films

From HR Pufnstuf to Battlestar Galactica, what can we learn from political television shows through the ages before we go to the ballot box?

The poet was always good, and the more Mahon the better, but it’s possible the best came first

This heavily plotted adaptation moves at a dizzying clatter as revelation upends revelation

The London-born musician tweaks his sound and thematic concerns, burrowing deeper into the niche he has forged

Sally Rooney, Graham Norton, Johnny Sexton, Jane Casey and Paul Howard also among winners at this year’s An Post Irish Book Awards

TV review: U2 bassist Adam Clayton is a decent presenter and great fun to hang with, but the documentary leans too hard on nostalgia for nostalgia’s sake

Aoibhe Devereux (16) was also awarded the gallery’s young portrait prize for a painting of her brother

In homage to Lou Reed, Anohni gives late musician’s work the creative approach she feels it deserves

Television: Miriam O’Callaghan did her best to add pep to this tedious chinwag but we ended up with pure lethargy

Actor plays lead in new version of 1980s legal drama Matlock, which sees lawyer avenging her daughter, who has died of opioid overdose

The legendary storyteller – who has two new books out – says the act of creation is the purest essence of magic itself

Plus: What topped the list of Rolling Stone magazine’s 74 Best Albums of ’74?

As children start to count down the days until Santa’s arrival, these books will help to both distract and inspire

Theatre: Marty Rea and Maeve Fitzgerald star as Gabriel and Gretta Conroy in Louise Lowe’s promenade staging of the beloved Dubliners story

The film’s best scenes lean into the chemistry between Auliʻi Cravalho’s Moana and Dwayne Johnson’s Maui

Ho ho ho, it’s a dull-witted, soundstage-bound romance with festive trimmings and a clockwork plot

All tell, little show, this memoir is strong on what happened but less so on why - and it gets worse as it continues.

It may be album aimed at club or in-car entertainment than listening at home but that doesn’t stop it having a rich and eclectic sound

Scottish singer Rod Stweart will become one of the oldest artists to perform a major set at the Glastonbury festival