Apple Cider Vinegar on Netflix is a cautionary tale: Nature is not always good
The influence of nature-worship is especially potent in corners of media directed at mothers
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Jamie Dornan: ‘I lost my mom, and I lost four of my best friends in an accident. I had a difficult few years’
One of Ireland’s best known actors, Jamie Dornan is hatching plans for a more varied future in the film world
‘Would the credit union give me a loan?’: Joe Duffy gets constructive about garden cabin housing plan
Radio: Liveline host also celebrates the work of neuroscientist Eleanor Maguire with enlightening, even inspiring discussions
Zero Day review: Robert De Niro in his element as grouchy US president in fun Netflix technothriller
Television: The idea of a cyberattack reducing civilisation to ruins is outlandish. Or is it?
If Robert De Niro no longer feels he is able to speak out, one wonders who in the US does
De Niro’s political thriller Zero Day couldn’t be better timed. The actor, who plays a courageous US president, has been one of Trump’s most outspoken public critics
American Murder: Gabby Petito review - A chilling look at the darker reality behind the smiles on social media
Television: The Netflix story is told from the perspective of Petito, who is given a voice through the participation of her family
Apple Cider Vinegar: Why the ‘true-ish’ story of Belle Gibson needed to be told
Series is based on the rise and fall of a fraudster who faked brain cancer and claimed to have been cured by a health diet
Unforgotten star Sinéad Keenan: ‘UCD had an awful lot of arty-farty people. I felt, oh Jesus, I can’t compete with that’
The Dublin actor got her break in Fair City more than 20 years ago but left for London soon after. Now she plays Jess James, the Irish top copper in ITV’s acclaimed cold-case crime drama
Chris O’Dowd: ‘In Hollywood we felt very disconnected, very far away’
The actor and comedian’s multi-faceted career has taken him from The IT Crowd in London to the bright lights of Hollywood, but he’s happy to be back on home turf with a new Sky series set in Ireland
Holly Willoughby is well used to troublesome co-hosts. Bear Grylls may like insects and urine, but he’s not Phillip Schofield
Celebrity Bear Hunt review: From the dawn of reality TV it has been clear it would culminate with an apparently unhinged survivalist hunting helpless celebs
Netflix’s Emilia Pérez was tipped as a big Oscar winner – then an unexpected scandal erupted
Oscars 2025: What has gone wrong for Emilia Pérez after its 13 nominations and triumphant awards season?
Celebrity Bear Hunt review: This is the funniest thing Netflix has put on for ages, with the token Irish person to keep us watching
Blending deft touches of sadism and unintentional laughs, it’s hard to imagine this show with Bear Grylls and Una Healy being anything other than a massive hit
Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV+: 10 of the best new shows to watch in February
Including The Kardashians, Apple Cider Vinegar, Reacher, Zero Day, A Thousand Blows and more
Irish advertising market will expand 7% this year, forecasts Core
Growth in television revenues set to be slower than in 2024, while print is expected to decline further
Sports, Squid Game push Netflix to record quarter
Last months of 2024 delivered biggest quarterly subscriber gain in its history for streaming video platform
Netflix posts record quarter thanks to live sports and Squid Game
Company added 18.9 million customers in the fourth quarter
Cameron Diaz: ‘I left movies because I wanted to live my life differently. We started our family, and that was all I wanted to do’
The 1990s megastar is back on screen alongside Jamie Foxx in Netflix thriller Back in Action
Agreement reached on document disclosure in Jules Thomas’s case against Netflix
Ms Thomas claimed that a documentary series, entitled: ‘Sophie: A murder in West Cork’ contained ‘glaring inaccuracies, fabrications and falsehoods’
Meghan Markle’s lifestyle tips, plus other TV for your glazed-but-happy eyes in 2025: ‘One must be firm with one’s butler’
Including Severance, White Lotus, The Studio, Poker Face, Stranger Things and Black Mirror
Author Neil Gaiman denies sexual assault allegations by multiple women
Accusations against Gaiman include claims of sexual assault, sexual misconduct and coercion
How the tell-nothing sport documentary craze failed its viewers
The age of perpetual content is upon us, and it is viciously uninteresting
American Primeval review: Seldom has the stench of American conquest risen so raw and hot
Television: Grippingly gory new western does the seemingly impossible by making us see the old west in a bloody new light
The Damned review: Chilly horror powered along by suspicion, atmospherics and an unforgettable landscape
Thordur Palsson’s work is powered along by suspicion, atmospherics and an unforgettable landscape
10 great films to watch if you’re stuck indoors
What to watch when it’s too cold and icy to go out? Try It Follows, The Thing, The Fly, Roman Holiday, Up, Uncle Buck and more
First look at Meghan Markle’s new lifestyle show on Netflix
With Love, Meghan is an eight-part series launching on January 15th
Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV+: 10 of the best new shows to watch in January
Including American Primeval, The Rig, Severance, Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action and Goosebumps: The Vanishing
TV guide: the best new shows to watch this week
December 29th-Jan 3rd – including The Traitors, Callan Kicks the Year, The Late Late NYE Show and Jools’ Annual Hootenanny
TV in 2025: 25 of the best new and returning shows to watch out for in the 12 months ahead
Including The Traitors, The White Lotus, Zero Day, Your Friends & Neighbors, The Walsh Sisters and The Bear
Squid Game season two review: Tense, bloody follow-up ticks boxes if you’re craving more Red Light, Green Light
Television: Seong Gi-hun, the down-and-out hero from season one, is on the trail of ‘the Recruiter’, the dapper gent who searches for contestants
Netflix snaps up US broadcast rights for Women’s World Cup in ‘landmark deal’
Streamer secures exclusive rights for 2027 and 2031 tournaments
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
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
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
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
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