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Netflix snaps up US broadcast rights for Women’s World Cup in ‘landmark deal’

Streamer secures exclusive rights for 2027 and 2031 tournaments

Fri Dec 20 2024 - 16:04

Culchiecore, bonkbusters, murder, more murder and Nationwide: What I’ve seen on TV in 2024

Patrick Freyne on the 2 Johnnies, Rivals, Say Nothing, Baby Reindeer and television trends of the past 12 months

Thu Dec 19 2024 - 05:00

Christmas TV takes the Casablanca approach – rounding up the usual suspects

Ghost of Christmas Past does overtime as broadcasters make viewers nostalgic for a time when nostalgia was a little less creaky

Tue Dec 17 2024 - 06:05

Nicole Kidman on sex, death and her risky new film, Babygirl

The nature of being an actor is the need to be able to stay free and open and vulnerable, says the 57-year-old

Mon Dec 16 2024 - 05:55

Irish WWE star Lyra Valkyria: ‘At its core, we’re storytellers. Everything comes down to good versus evil’

With its mix of larger-than-life faux rage in the ring and genuine connection with fans, it’s not hard to understand the huge popularity of WWE – and it means big business, too, for Netflix

Sun Dec 15 2024 - 05:15

From Baby Reindeer and The Traitors to Bodkin and The 2 Johnnies Late Night Lock In: The best and worst television of 2024

The glory days of streaming are over, but TV has never been more unpredictable

Fri Dec 13 2024 - 06:00

100 Years of Solitude review: A woozy, feverish watch to be savoured in bite-sized portions

Television: Lavish adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez’s 1967 novel is both meditative and steamy, sometimes to the point of hilarity

Thu Dec 12 2024 - 11:04

No Good Deed review: Even Lisa Kudrow can’t save this pre-Christmas turkey of a dark comedy

Television: LA suburbia-set series is just too miserable to make viewers laugh. It’s like the grimmest ever season of Location, Location, Location

Thu Dec 12 2024 - 07:00

Top kids shows on Netflix suffer ‘diminishing returns’, Irish study finds

Industry-first analysis of the streamer’s own data confirms preschool titles originating on YouTube dominate its list of best performers

Tue Dec 10 2024 - 11:00

State must pick up €2.8m tab into pension scheme of company that went bust in 2009

The best news, analysis and comment from The Irish Times business desk

Tue Dec 10 2024 - 06:35

Catherine Martin’s greatest legacy as Minister for Media hangs in the balance

It’s a cliffhanger moment for the Irish screen industry. Will producers here be boosted by the kind of levy on streamers now commonly found across the EU?

Tue Dec 10 2024 - 06:15

South Korean drama of a fictional kind as Netflix winds up the Squid Game hype machine in Paris

Planet Business: Words of the year, Intel’s interim arrangement and the Death Clock app that claims to predict your likely date of death

Sat Dec 07 2024 - 06:15

Black Doves review: Keira Knightley is delightfully sweary as a devoted wife by day and deadly assassin by night

Television: There’s an awful lot going on in Joe Barton’s espionage romp – a surprise cameo from Galway band The Stunning’s Steve Wall, for one thing

Thu Dec 05 2024 - 10:00

What do women want? A hunky idiot without a past, that’s what

Hot Frosty, Netflix’s latest reboot of The Snowman, at last brings some ‘hubba-hubba, vroom-vroom, arooooga!’ to Raymond Briggs’s family favourite

Thu Dec 05 2024 - 05:00

Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV+: 10 of the best new shows to watch in December

Including Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, Squid Game season two, Beast Games, Harry Potter: Wizards of Baking and One Hundred Years of Solitude

Sun Dec 01 2024 - 05:00

Our Little Secret: Awkward! Lindsay Lohan’s Christmas flick may as well be AI generated

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

Tue Nov 26 2024 - 19:34

Manifesto media pledges — ‘Netflix levy’, legal reform in 100 days and €500m a year for RTÉ

Election 2024: Sinn Féin remembers Coimisiún na Meán and other things gleaned from the parties’ media policies

Tue Nov 26 2024 - 06:15

‘It is a rough sport’: Katie Taylor floats above ‘dirty’ tactics allegation after win over Serrano

Because of the timing, the depth of what Taylor achieved here may not have fully registered as a genuinely great moment for Irish sport

Sun Nov 17 2024 - 14:20

Katie Taylor narrowly defeats Amanda Serrano in brutal contest

Irish boxer booed by crowd after head clash during controversial bout in Texas

Sat Nov 16 2024 - 06:31

Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano set to show true boxing values at strange big-money event

Mike Tyson and Jake Paul top the bill in a voyeuristic contest whose appeal may have been overestimated

Fri Nov 15 2024 - 12:22

Who is Jake Paul? The story of the YouTuber who will take on Mike Tyson

Despite his absurd persona and obscene wealth, would-be boxer’s support of female fighters is worthy of note

Thu Nov 14 2024 - 15:37

Mike Tyson’s glowering silence cuts through Netflix show noise

Tyson is set to earn $20 million for fighting Jake Paul in live-streamed event that also features Katie Taylor-Amanda Serrano rematch

Thu Nov 14 2024 - 06:50

Dave Hannigan: Katie Taylor’s presence lends a modicum of dignity to sporting farrago

Dubious bill in Texas topped by the clash of Jake Paul and Mike Tyson akin to one of those 19th century carnival sideshows

Wed Nov 13 2024 - 15:00

Bad Sisters review: Beautiful Dublin shines again as Sharon Horgan serves up another course of zinging dark comedy

Television: Beautiful Dublin shines again in series two of Apple’s comic thriller

Wed Nov 13 2024 - 05:45

Katie Taylor: ‘If you’re a boxing person it really matters Mike Tyson does well against Jake Paul’

World super lightweight champion faces Amanda Serrano in Texas on Friday night

Tue Nov 12 2024 - 21:15

Core’s Aidan Greene: ‘Amazon.ie will be a gamechanger for Irish advertising clients’

The marketing communications group grew its net profit to more than €4m last year and has expanded again in 2024

Mon Nov 11 2024 - 14:26

In Washington, the peaceful transfer of power surprises a city boarded up for violence

Planet Business: Royal private estate income, data-hungry air fryers and the companies keen for it to be Christmas already

Sat Nov 09 2024 - 06:15

Bill Nighy: ‘My grandmother kind of raised me. She was a proper Irish woman, a Catholic. I was to be a priest’

Love Actually actor talks about running away as a teenager, begging in Paris and breaking into acting

Sat Nov 02 2024 - 05:30

Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV+: 10 of the best new shows to watch in November

Including Bad Sisters season two, Say Nothing, Senna, Countdown: Paul vs Tyson and more

Fri Nov 01 2024 - 05:15

The Movie Quiz: In what Irish town is Cillian Murphy’s Small Things Like These set?

Plus: What was the only Netflix title among this year’s Oscar nominees for best picture?

Fri Nov 01 2024 - 05:00

If you need a reason to stay in bed this bank holiday, here’s what too little sleep is doing to you

There’s a good reason why the Guinness World Records team has banned attempts to stay awake

Mon Oct 28 2024 - 06:10

If you’re self employed, the time has come to file your tax return and avoid nasty surprises from Revenue