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Patrick Freyne: Doctor Who allows adults to enjoy swashbuckling adventures without feeling patronised and allows children to access something dark and weird while feeling safe
Producer provided a counterpoint to those stars who preach while avoiding tax or the consequences of their own work practices
Dubliner talks about growing up in theatre, a fear of comedy scripts and her latest Netflix offering
TikTok is a growing part of young people’s lives but there are concerns about sleep deprivation, mental health and attention span
The Netflix reality show involves glamorous ladies and hunky gentlemen quaffing champagne and talking about their problems at length
Author has always felt like something of an outsider and it has been a spur for their writing
Patrick Freyne: On The Piano, she shows why she’s the best light-entertainment presenter. Jon Bon Jovi, on the other hand, is both cheesy and hammy
The Belfast actor is on a roll, with parts in Masters of the Air and Manhunt about to be followed by starring roles in Shardlake and Say Nothing
Patrick Freyne: Britain’s Got Talent is back, its name now less a triumphalist boast than a pleading sales pitch from a waning superpower
Patrick Freyne: Frequently it seems as if those ‘duped’ by Doireann Garrihy, Carl Mullan and Donncha O’Callaghan are playing along, much as you would indulge the tomfoolery of a child
Last year the former Irish Times columnist’s work on her new play, for Rough Magic and the Abbey, was interrupted by a double cancer diagnosis
Patrick Freyne: I’m taking the existence of this Netflix gameshow as a sign that the jig is up for the human race
Andrew Scott in Ripley and Donald Glover and Maya Erskine in Mr & Mrs Smith are among the highlights thus far
We meet Lindsay Lohan’s character Maddie on the way to a book launch as her scarf gets shut in the door of a taxi that then zooms off with it
Forget national heroes, martyrs and rank celebs. These are the certifiable emblems of our small but great nation