Scrubs on Disney+ review: Older, sadder, and moderately wiser – but with its funny bone intact
Television: Previously zany cast are now in the trenches of middle age and finding Gen Z even more annoying than our heroes were 25 years ago
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February 21st-27th highlights: including Other Voices, the IFTA Awards and BAFTA Film Awards
Patrick Freyne: If I could marry a TV show, I’d choose this one about a bearded man
From a warm, funny series about connection to the embodiment of cuddly evil, these are the recent(ish) shows I’ve liked most
Sky signs on with Disney+ for subscription deal
Satellite broadcaster puts together new package of streaming channels after expanding its existing partnerships
How Miss Piggy went from minor Muppet to TV’s top hog
Miss Piggy began as a bit player, but a sassy attitude and a karate chop carried her to the pinnacle of pop culture
TV guide: the best new shows to watch, starting tonight
February 8th-14th highlights, including Lord of the Flies, The Summit, and How to Get to Heaven from Belfast
The Muppet Show on Disney+: The humour is largely terrible – but isn’t that the point?
Television: This one-off reboot is faithful to the 1970s original, when there was no high concept, and Sabrina Carpenter provides the perfect opening night guest
Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV+: 10 of the best new shows to stream in February
Including The Lincoln Lawyer, How to Get to Heaven from Belfast, The Last Thing He Told Me, and more
Patrick Freyne: The Beauty asks big questions. What if sexy people got so hot they exploded?
Ryan Murphy’s show has the shape of satire while never making it entirely clear what’s being satirised
‘It’s important for ice hockey players to be clean!’ I jot down during Heated Rivalry’s shower scene
There’s also a focus on special ice-hockey exercises. Our heroes engage in these nudely, like Spartans. I try to draw diagrams
Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV+: 10 best new shows to stream in January
Including Bridgerton, Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials, Harlan Coben’s Run Away, Tehran and Hijack
2026 on TV: Dancing with the Stars, The Night Manager and 18 other new and returning shows to catch
Including Industry, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, Tip Toe, Lord of the Flies and Grown Ups
2025 in TV: Rogue brogues, the drunken Irish and a prestige streamer’s hidden jewels
The biggest show of the year, Adolescence, became so huge that it fuelled a moral panic, but the best stuff was on the little-watched Apple TV
Top 10 Christmas TV specials to watch again
The top 10 best Christmas TV specials for worth watching again (and again)
Taylor Swift: The End of an Era review - There’s nothing here that Swift doesn’t want us to see
Television: After decades of Swiftmania, does the world need this not especially revealing documentary?
Percy Jackson and the Olympians on Disney+: Harry Potter for bored Marvel fans
Television: Zeitgeist has moved from young adult fiction to Romantasy, making this feel behind the times
Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV+: 10 of the best new shows to stream in December
Including Taylor Swift: The End of an Era, The New Yorker at 100, and Emily in Paris ... and Rome ... and Venice
Search for the Truth review: Might Caroline Flack have preferred be allowed rest in peace?
Television: Documentary decries tabloid hysteria over Flack’s arrest and ensuing vitriol of strangers online, but is this what she would have wanted five years after her death?
All’s Fair on Disney+ review: Kim Kardashian’s stilted new legal drama is a proper atrocity
Television: Ryan Murphy, Hollywood’s laureate of bad taste, has produced one of the worst things Disney+ has ever foisted upon its subscribers
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November 2nd-7th highlights: including Trackers: The People v The Banks, All Her Fault and Pluribus
Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV+: 10 of the best new shows to stream in November
Including Beatles Anthology, Stranger Things final season, All’s Fair, Palm Royale and more
Patrick Freyne’s guide to the biggest horror TV shows, from Stranger Things to Sesame Street
Including the attractive conformists of Wednesday’s posh private school, the paranormal Baywatch spinoff and the Joanna Lumley show that scarred an Irish child for life
Caroline Flack’s mother on the death of her daughter: ‘I always say no one can do anything worse to me now’
Christine Flack has been haunted by the possibility that her daughter received ‘special treatment’ and was prosecuted only because police feared the scrutiny that came with a celebrity like Caroline
From Alien to The Zone of Interest: 50 of the best movies to stream right now – with no extra rental fees
The most arresting, entertaining films on Netflix, Disney+, Apple TV+, Prime Video and Paramount+
Taylor Swift announces six-part Eras Tour docuseries and updated concert film
Taylor Swift tells fans 'the only thing left is to close the book' as she reveals new projects
Scared of doing your household sums? Here’s how to get on top of it
Why an ‘admin night’ can help get your finances in order
Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV+: 10 of the best new shows to stream in October
Including Monster: The Ed Gein Story, Boots, Loot, The Diplomat and Down Cemetery Road
TV guide: the best new shows to watch, starting tonight
September 28th-October 3rd highlights: including The Walsh Sisters; How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge); and Monster: The Ed Gein Story
Davina McCall is firing a flare. I think she wants a divorce
Stranded on Honeymoon Island isn’t a survival show so much as TV producers’ latest attempt to destroy the institution of marriage
Only Murders in the Building season five: Far from turning stale, this is one of the best seasons yet
Television: Steve Martin, Selena Gomez and Martin Short return for more deadpan skewering
Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV+: 10 of the best new shows to stream in September
Including House of Guinness, The Morning Show, Slow Horses and Only Murders in the Building
Tubs in a topper, RTÉ on its uppers: Patrick Freyne can see clearly now
Ryan Tubridy’s return of €150,000 to his old employer, plus eight other TV moments I missed while I was away reading books and smelling flowers
Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV+: 10 of the best new shows to stream in August
Plenty of choice, including Hostage, Wednesday, Alien: Earth and Love Is Blind: UK
Veteran republican Marian Price issues legal proceedings against Disney over ‘Say Nothing’ series
Suggestion Price involved in murder of Jean McConville not based on a single iota of evidence, High Court defamation action claims
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