Derry Girls creator Lisa McGee to shoot new Netflix comedy JIG in Northern Ireland
Six-part mockumentary will be set in the high-stakes world of competitive Irish dancing
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Barry Keoghan to reprise Top Boy role in new Netflix series Jonny Boy
Five-episode prequel will explore the origins of his Irish gangster character, with filming due to begin in 2027
Raygun opens up on her infamous Olympics breakdancing debut: ‘Not as bad as I thought!’
The Olympic breakdancer became a viral sensation after her performance at Paris 2024, where she failed to receive a single point
Biggest hitters in streaming want you to use only their app
Companies once focused on gaining new subscribers now more concerned with keeping those viewers
If you build it, grifters will come, as sport becomes a plaything of the investment class
Heritage is being sold off to the highest bidders as best interests of fans are ignored
Brilliant, embittered and pure box office: This is José Mourinho at his best
If modern elite football is a camp television drama, the Real Madrid manager’s theatrics make him the main character
Martin and Roman Kemp explore what Ireland does best: Sarcasm, breakfast, wondering what’s in the will
Martin and Roman’s Irish Road Trip is often good fun but does not overburden British viewers with knowledge, while a new Netflix show asks: ‘What if Ricky Gervais was a cat?’
Irish productions for Netflix receive millions in corporation tax credits from Revenue in 2026
Screen Ireland figures show production spending contributed record €544m to economy in 2025
Of course Hollywood is dying. It’s been dying for nearly 80 years
AI is cited as the latest threat to Hollywood’s survival, yet box office revenues are at record levels
Plan to double size of Ashford film studios rejected by Wicklow council
Ashford Studios had sought permission for an additional five film studios as part of expansion plan at Kellystown site
The Shards on Disney+: Romp of a slasher adapted from Bret Easton Ellis novel
Television: Set in 1980s LA, this show may be shallow but creates quite a splash
Podcast shift to video is a fait accompli, but how is it changing audience habits?
TV, radio, video-on-demand and streamers all jostle for attention but the instruments that measure them remain separate and mutually unintelligible
‘The dream quickly became a nightmare’: Mo Gilligan on the mental impact of 28 days of fried chicken
The British comedian was a fan of fried chicken until he made his gruesome documentary, Big Chicken: A Fast Food Conspiracy
Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV: 10 of the best new shows to watch in August
Your guide to streaming, including Alley Cats, Lioness, Dark Matter, The Shards and the return of Ted Lasso
Holly Willoughby’s new YouTube venture is off to a wonky start
Holly Willoughby Together has been compared to the found-footage horror film With Love, Meghan, but things improve when Stanley Tucci breezes in
The Hawk on Netflix: A tin-pot show with Will Ferrell stuck in the bunker
Television: This golf romp tries to replicate the magic of a genre whose time has passed
Politicians bemoan RTÉ’s failures, then make them worse
No enterprise could absorb an 18-year price freeze on its primary revenue stream while costs keep climbing
Little House on the Prairie makes for uneasy reading as an adult
These books are politically wrong, but they’re also well written
Little House on the Prairie’s ethnic-cleansing message really hasn’t dated well
Netflix’s Little House on the Prairie feeds into the fantasy that settlers have a great moral message (‘finders keepers’)
Little House on the Prairie on Netflix: This gritty take on Laura Ingalls’ memoirs is no nostalgia binge
Television: Beautiful to look at and well-acted this revived series is so slow-moving as to appeal only to hardcore Laura Ingalls Wilder fans
Inside Ireland’s chess boom: The ‘national phenomenon’ that is still not recognised as a sport
As the chess boom takes hold, getting official recognition as a sport will unlock funding, says the Irish Chess Union
Sky agrees £1.6bn ITV deal as broadcasters take on streaming rivals
Deal comes as less than a quarter of 16-24-year-olds’ in-home viewing is now of content from broadcasters
Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV: 10 of the best new shows to watch in July
Your guide to streaming, including The Hawk, Elle, a new Little House on the Prairie, Lucky and Furious
Himesh Patel on Enola Holmes 3: ‘The casting decisions were made to tell a very honest story about colonialism’
The actor has gone from his teenage break in EastEnders to playing Dr Watson in Netflix’s Sherlock Holmes franchise, and roles in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey and Ryan Coogler’s The X-Files
Enola Holmes 3 review: Old-school, funhouse yucks with unexpected pockets of grit
Millie Bobby Brown as our daredevil heroine is back and unleashing the right kind of fun
The American Experiment on Netflix: Tom Hanks doc explores the US’s rocky road to ‘greatness’
Television: More than 60 experts, including Mike Pence and Hillary Clinton, weigh in on the US’s origins and enduring fabulosity
Fantastic Kingdom by Helene von Bismarck: Knowledgeable treatise on harm done by Brexit
A writer perfectly placed to examine the impact of this ‘act of self-harm’
I Will Find You review: Harlan Coben deploys new highs of absurdity with typical ruthlessness
Television: This romp adheres rigidly to the Coben blueprint and is all the richer for its silliness and its refusal to be boring
Tyra Banks sues Netflix over America’s Next Top Model documentary
Lawsuit contends ‘selective editing’ and ‘surgical manipulation’ were used to create narrative
World Cup 2026: Don’t fancy a middle-of-the-night match? Try these eye-opening TV shows instead
There is a host of football-themed programming airing at sensible times, just to get you in the mood
Croke Park stadium director expects sell-out Katie Taylor fight
Peter McKenna says ‘expertise’ behind marketing campaign will help fill 82,300 capacity
Does it matter if Belle Burden’s controversial divorce memoir doesn’t tell the whole truth?
Women don’t explicitly promise to love, honour and surrender their financial autonomy in marriage, but many do anyway
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June 7th to 12th highlights, including Backstory, Britney: In Ten Pictures, Total Football and Queen James
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