Patrick Freyne

Patrick Freyne: We’re here to watch diverting colourful antics involving nice bubbly people because life is hard and we’ve suffered enough

Patrick Freyne: Agent Scanlon is proceeding successfully with her mission to destabilise the British housing market

The cuddly Conservative booms for Britain as he travels the UK meeting ordinary people for the first time

Patrick Freyne: In Netflix’s fantasy series a witcher is a job, with a high-points course you can probably still do at Trinity College Dublin

It has been a fine year on the telly with some memorable dramas and comedies

Deceitful robots hoodwink and toy with the affections of blameless sea beasts with David Tennant’s tacit approval

Patrick Freyne: These newcomers are but hunk-shaped shadows on the wall of Plato’s cave. They’re like hunky ashes in my mouth

Patrick Freyne: A compelling protagonist going from town to town solving crimes is my favourite TV trope

Patrick Freyne: Johnny Depp’s daughter gets off with a charismatic sex pest played by The Weeknd in a by-the-numbers industry satire

Patrick Freyne: It was inevitable Arnold Schwarzenegger would return to murder people while saying catchphrases in a flat monotone

Patrick Freyne: It’s Ryan Tubridy’s final Late Late Show tonight. Here’s everything the new host needs to know for guaranteed success

Patrick Freyne: We frequently watch the crew in grainy night vision while they share berths and snog. This is fine. I’m sure it’s healthy for us

Patrick Freyne: The deathless TV franchise will eventually come with more skulls on spikes, I’m sure

Patrick Freyne: Britain’s new monarch is speaking his truths. I’m reaching for my truth in the thatch as I watch

With the potential for AI to reshape how we all live our lives, and for millions of jobs to be lost to automation, there are much bigger issues at stake

Patrick Freyne: Merely seeing the celebrity chef conjures up the rich musk of an expensive aftershave

A new project by Fighting Words has helped Ukrainian women in Ireland write their own stories

Patrick Freyne: On Scared of the Dark, Danny Dyer has locked eight celebs in a pitch-black bunker. He’s basically the angel of death

Patrick Freyne: Yes, it’s the 1980s again, baby, with Netflix’s erotic thriller Obsession breathlessly leading the way

Patrick Freyne: It’s always crime with the Kin family. If they’re not in the process of criming, they’re talking about crimes of the past and future

Steven Knight’s new BBC version of Great Expectations is like a Burt Bacharach song covered by a good metal band

Patrick Freyne: Rise and Fall, Channel 4′s new reality show, will be studied by political scientists for years

Brad’s Penis is the most compelling character on Sex/Life, back on Netflix after two years. Presumably everyone involved needed time to rehydrate

Photographer Ross O’Callagahan has captured an array of Patricks, Paddys and Pats in their natural habitats

Patrick Freyne: The Disney+ series is a delightful, morally simple adventure, like Rawhide or The Incredible Hulk

Patrick Freyne: Many people are now trapped in a cycle of reality-television dating shows, and even more people are trapped watching it

One of our favourite things in Ireland is looking inside other people’s houses. Yes, of course I like Home of the Year. What am I? Dutch?

Patrick Freyne: I enjoy The Masked Singer. It makes me feel drunk. And inevitably Rita Ora is there

Patrick Freyne: Lord Sugar’s swaggering go-getters believe they can turn their hand to anything, no specific knowledge required

Patrick Freyne: If you enjoy muck, tears and vomit and feel nothing but warmness towards the British military, then SAS: Who Dares Wins is for you

Dancing with the Stars does a useful service for the households of grumpy das, distracting them much as one might use colourful mobiles with babies

An outlandishly dressed foreigner arrives in France, where she struggles to adapt to their sexy Gallic ways. No, it’s not Emily in Paris but Marie Antoinette

The White Lotus, The Bear, Severance and Somebody Somewhere were unmissable

Patrick Freyne: Emily in Paris is a work of evil genius. I’m obsessed by it – and I think I’ve figured out the rules that underpin its success

Patrick Freyne: The Too Hot to Handle hunks have been lured to an island where they’ll lose a $200,000 prize if they have sex

If I’ve learned anything from Netflix’s Christmas films, it’s that people can’t get enough of bereaved single parents with adorable children and badly run businesses

On I’m a Celebrity, the former UK health secretary eventually wears down his appalled jungle mates with his vague and masochistic pleasantness

TV review: Room To Improve – Constructive Criticism avoids being a backslapping bacchanalia

Thirty-four years after the first Daffodil Day, cancer treatments and attitudes have changed

It’s world happiness day on Sunday. We asked some people when they have been happiest