TV guide: the best new shows to watch, starting tonight
Previews for January 26th to January 31st: including the return of The Apprentice, Idris Elba investigates Our Knife Crime Crisis and Noah Cosentino stars in The Recruit
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2025 on stage: 21 plays, operas and dance works to see over the next 12 months
From King Lear at the Gate to Dr Strangelove starring Steve Coogan, the coming year’s stage line-up includes jukebox musicals, period romcom and a play that probes the Irish Hospitals’ Sweepstake
50 films to see in 2025, from Babygirl to You’re Cordially Invited
Nicole Kidman stars in a kinky office romance, Reese Witherspoon and Will Ferrell play wedding planners, and Éanna Hardwicke and Steve Coogan replay Saipan
‘Watch your step’: Steve Coogan takes Patrick Freyne backstage at Dr Strangelove
The comic actor is playing four parts in the new stage version of Stanley Kubrick’s film, which comes to Ireland in 2025
First-look at Éanna Hardwicke as Roy Keane and Steve Coogan as Mick McCarthy
Saipan will follow the infamous 2002 World Cup feud between Ireland’s football captain and manager
Saipan: Éanna Hardwicke and Steve Coogan to star as Roy Keane and Mick McCarthy in film about infamous falling out
Controversy still rages around dispute between captain and manager at Ireland soccer camp before 2002 Fifa World Cup
Michael Winterbottom: ‘The film is about political violence. That theme is acutely relevant with what’s going on in Gaza’
The director’s films have often stirred discontent. With his latest political thriller, Shoshana, set in 1930s Tel Aviv, he knows he must be ready for pushback
The Reckoning: The BBC ignored Jimmy Savile’s crimes. Now it’s doing it all over again
Television: As the curtains close, it is still not clear what the BBC had hoped to achieve
The Reckoning episode two review: How Jimmy Savile became leader of British entertainment’s parade of shame and horror
TV review: At moments The Reckoning is too awful to sit through. At the same time, Steve Coogan’s ability to recreate Jimmy Savile’s cheesy anticharm is uncanny
The Reckoning: Steve Coogan delivers a powerfully slithering performance as Jimmy Savile
Television: Drama seems uninterested in the institutional indifference that enabled the DJ’s years of sex abuse
Jimmy Savile: A thorough lambasting for a Reckoning so far unseen
Donald Clarke: Some documentaries stand accused as offering up sex abuse victims’ stories as ‘entertainment’ - but nobody is suggesting these films are fun
‘I flattered him, knowing he’d try to kiss me’: Alan Partridge interviews Steve Coogan
‘It’s the oldest journalistic trick in the book. Coogan has fallen for it hook, line and sinker’
TV Baftas 2022: Social issues take spotlight at inclusive ceremony
Pleas to save Channel 4 took centre stage on Sunday night amid uncertainty over future
Alexander Skarsgard: Filming The Northman in Ireland was ‘months in the mud’
The Swedish actor stars in a new Viking epic full of revenge, nudity and Nordic berserkers
Philomena Lee case to be one of lead actions over Mother and Baby homes report
High Court agrees to hear two of eight challenges in late October or November
Wiggins lobbing identity grenades? Keep calm and carry on . . .
‘Bantz’? The truth is Brits can’t conceive of anyone not wanting to be British
What’s so funny about philosophers?
Unthinkable: The original ‘sage-wannabes’ of Athens were considered slightly weird, a new book reveals
Steve Coogan: ‘Come Out, Ye Black and Tans is two fingers to the British’
‘The whole history between the British and the Irish runs through me’, says Coogan
Steve Coogan says ‘my Irish passport will be arriving shortly’
The comedian has applied for and expects his Irish passport soon. ‘That’s not a joke,’ he says
Greed film review: Greed is quite good. But it could be better
Winterbottom’s latest is not completely without merit but we deserve more creative satire
Horror classics to screen at this year’s Cork Film Festival
Programme includes documentary on feisty New Yorker writer Pauline Kael
Greed: How Sony censored Steve Coogan’s new fashion-tycoon send-up
End your film with shocking statistics? No way, the studio told Michael Winterbottom
What’s up and what’s down at the Toronto International Film Festival
Knives Out, Joker, Jojo Rabbit, The Goldfinch and The Report among the contenders
A dull Goldfinch, two funny popes, and Scarlett Johansson’s broken marriage
Toronto film festival: Opening weekend also included Knives Out, Greed and Sea Fever
Which films are in contention as interminable awards season ramps up?
Donald Clarke runs the rule over the likely winners ahead of this week’s festival trifecta
Bafta TV Awards 2019: Irish actor Fiona Shaw wins best supporting actor
Killing Eve, Ant and Dec among winners. Benedict Cumberbatch scoops best actor
Alan Partridge is England’s man of the moment
Series review: Alan Partridge, the new Emperor of England, knows he’s naked
John Cooney thriving on opportunity among the sons of Ulster
Ruan Pienaar’s departure proved to be key as scrumhalf made move to Belfast from Connacht
Come Out Ye Black and Tans: Think you know what it’s about? You probably don’t
It has been on Alan Partridge and a Brady’s ham ad. So what does the rebel song mean?
Alan Partridge singing Come Out, Ye Black and Tans both awkward and hilarious
BBC One viewers treated to a stirring rendition of the rebel song on the ‘This Time with Alan Partridge’ show
Local radio layoffs continue to loom for real-life Alan Partridges
London Letter: Leave-veering audiences to lose out to capital’s output
This Time With Alan Partridge: A wicked study in prejudice and panic
‘Guess who’s back in the big time?’ he gloats in hilarious first episode of new show
Alan Partridge spams 20,000 BBC colleagues
Chatshow host, returning to present ‘This Time’, gives out his BBC email address
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