Pushed to the Edge is an elaborate ruse in which unsuspecting strangers are coaxed into what they think is murder by mentalist Derren Brown. It’s an experiment. And it’s depraved.

Dermot O’Leary will take over from broadcaster who cancelled due to medical advice

The group have been singing the canon for a decade – but what happens now that they are making their own music?

Review: The product placement would put you off eating at TV3’s new place, where Jackie Lavin is this week’s celeb cook. On RTÉ, Norah Casey has a lot more luck

Sorry Peter Jackson, but we’re all Orc’d out - Battle of the Five Armies is both way too much and not nearly enough

Opinion: Reporting the Christian bakery sends the message that it is not okay to disagree

David Threlfall is enjoyably bumbling as the lead in a classy biopic of one of TV’s most impersonated stars

Television review

Benedict Cumberbatch first set hearts aflutter in the BBCs hugely popular Sherlock, which returns on New Year’s Day, and has since made great waves playing Julian Assange, Khan and now, as the voice of Smaug, the dragon in The Hobbit. He has also made a big impact on the world of otters. He talks to Donald Clarke