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The nine biggest TV shows of 2025 so far: Why you should watch them, and where you can catch them

Including Andor, Severance, The Last of Us, Your Friends & Neighbors, and Adolescence

Havoc director Gareth Evans: ‘I’ve always been a disciple of the John Woo school of film-making’

Tom Hardy is top-notch, but what sets this film apart is the poetic mayhem of a creator raised on Asian greats

Netflix predicts growth despite consumer tariff fears

Streaming service’s shares gain as earnings beat Wall Street’s forecasts

Netflix applying its binge-watch formula to Jason Corbett’s killing is not a surprise

Streamer has been building its true crime franchise for a decade. But is it always a good thing?

Netflix levy: A boost for homegrown television or a blow to consumers?

We already have a TV licence fee, says Conor Pope, the Irish Times consumer affairs correspondent. But with a well-designed levy, the consumer wouldn’t pay, argues independent producer Larry Bass

Are adolescent boys being influenced by online misogyny and porn to commit sexual assaults?

Experts who work with young offenders discuss whether the Netflix series Adolescence is true to life

Anne-Marie Duff: ‘I have the second half of my life to go. So, what am I going to fill that f**ker with?’

Known to a new generation of fans for her Bafta-winning Bad Sisters performance, Duff is back in Reunion, a gritty four-part thriller

You don’t have to have a hide like an especially thick rhinoceros to be a screenwriter, but it helps

They might be ‘daggers in the screen’ to some writers, but notes from producers are also a marker of success

‘Netflix levy’: Fine Gael MEPs urge Minister to meet organisation pushing for charge on TV streaming services

Minister for Media Patrick O’Donovan indicates no intention to introduce additional charge

Black Mirror review: Two standout episodes in a largely dreary and predictable new season

Television: Charlie Brooker’s future-shock science fiction may be surplus to requirements. Could any future be any more shocking than our present reality?

Writers’ Guild dismayed at Minister for Media’s lack of support for Netflix content levy

Representative body for writers warns Patrick O’Donovan that decision puts their economic livelihoods at risk

Streaming service levy would need ministerial sign-off under Cabinet-backed plan

Minister for Media says he does not support a levy on streaming services at the moment

The Irish Times view on the ‘Netflix’ levy: what is the Minister’s plan?

Since taking up his portfolio in January, Minister for Media Patrick O’Donovan has acquired a reputation for glibness

Media and tech won’t escape fallout from Trump’s tariffs

A recession and loss of revenue will be a big hit for streamers and big tech

Netflix levy plan set to be blocked as viewers are already ‘paying enough’

People using television-streaming services are ‘paying enough’, says Minister for Media

What teenagers think of Adolescence: ‘Young men are getting a bad rap’

The Women’s Podcast with Róisín Ingle

Pulse review: Plot is far from a priority in this Greys Anatomy-inspired soapy distraction

Television: It may be honkingly derivative but it sure goes down easily

The underlying problem of boyhood is manhood

There is nothing natural about male violence. Boys are growing up in a profoundly troubled culture

10 of the best new shows to watch in April: including Netflix medical drama and two AppleTV+ releases

Including Black Mirror, Andor, You, Dying for Sex and The Bondsman

Jen Hogan: There are probably few more vilified groups, in society, than teenage boys

Jen Hogan: Everyone is talking about Adolescence on Netflix, but we should also be talking about how to look after our boys

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