Emmys: The Crown, Ted Lasso and The Mandalorian lead nominations
Streaming services take most nominations, with 130 for HBO+ and 129 for Netflix
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The Crown’s Charles and Diana years: A world of privilege, glamour and tension
The fourth series of the much anticipated 10 episodes was reportedly produced on a €110 million) budget
Netflix: 10 of the best new shows and films to watch in September
Including Hilary Swank in space drama Away and Jessie Buckley in Charlie Kaufman’s I’m Thinking of Ending Things
Screen Actors Guild awards: have Saoirse Ronan’s Oscar hopes been dented?
No nomination for Irish star of Little Women but Andrew Scott gets nod for Fleabag
Patrick Freyne: The Crown is about a rich family who stay still
British have little conception of their own history beyond a few overly-fetishised events
The Crown season 3 review: Olivia Colman glides snugly into role of queen
Latest instalment of Netflix series is expensively put together yet ever so slightly dull
Sgt Stubby film falls short on repaying investors
Talks ongoing for debt-for-equity swap with Irish and US backers after US box office sales disappoint
New series to light up the lives of Dark Crystal fans
In an age of explosive visual effects, studio bosses were not bowled over by the idea of staying faithful to The Dark Crystal’s puppet DNA
Netflix: The 10 best new shows and series to watch in August
Dear White People, Glow and Mindhunter return; Otherhood and The Family debut
Red Joan: Judi Dench should have defected from half-baked spy drama
Review: To make something so boring of the fascinating true-life story of Soviet spy Melita Norwood takes a certain quality
Kenneth Branagh: ‘The life of an actor? Strange men phone and offer you money’
The actor and director talks Shakespeare ‘trutherism’ and his working-class upbringing
Claire Foy: ‘Pain plays a big part in all the characters I play’
‘I have an aversion to be being told I have to look a certain way to be an actress’
Cork helps fund animated film telling story of stray dog that became a war hero
€3 million of €18 million needed to make ‘Sgt Stubby: An Unlikely Hero’ was raised in Cork
Ocean’s 8: The acting’s formulaic. And then there’s Helena Bonham Carter’s Irish accent
Review: Apart from Anne Hathaway, the Ocean’s 8 cast barely qualify as characters at all
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Incredibles 2, Ocean’s 8, Jurassic World and Mamma Mia!: Here We Go Again
Lily James: A young Meryl Streep?
James is back on the big screen with ‘The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society’
Whatever happened to the Christmas movie? Here are six that need a remake
It's December 2016 - the likes of Home Alone and It’s A Wonderful Life could do with a bit of updating
Calais orders up to 1,000 residents of Jungle camp to leave
‘I find it extremely annoying and unfair to move people away from what they created’
Elton John marries David Furnish at their Windsor estate
Musician marries his long term partner after new legislation passed in UK in March
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