Despite mass-market appeal, the No 1 New York Times bestseller’s adaptations are widely regarded as some of the worst telly around

Television: The real destructive force at the end of this fifth and final season was the pain of growing up

Think of the movies Atlas or the deafeningly forgettable Red Notice

Including Bridgerton, Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials, Harlan Coben’s Run Away, Tehran and Hijack

Timothée Chalamet, Seymour Hersh, Stellan Skarsgard and Renate Reinsve in a quartet of movies released in the week of December 26th, 2025

There is a sense of being caught between outdated structures and increasingly unstable new realities

Including Industry, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, Tip Toe, Lord of the Flies and Grown Ups

The latest chapter in the Ballymena man’s hugely successful career is perhaps his starriest yet – all thanks to the murderously moreish whodunits of Harlan Coben

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

Talk around Netflix’s potential takeover of Warner Bros has accelerated fretting over cinema’s lifespan

I’m taking a break from the ‘gradual erosion of self-worth’ and staying firmly in outie mode

Irish actors to appear alongside new series cast members Rebecca Ferguson and Tim Roth

Without journalists of Hersh’s calibre, we would be none the wiser about incidents including the 1968 massacre of a Vietnamese village by US soldiers

Traders are navigating lighter volumes at the start of a holiday-shortened week

The top 10 best Christmas TV specials for worth watching again (and again)

The YouTuber has become one of the faces of boxing - and that’s ominous

Plus: Ozzy Osbourne’s Irish friend, Guinness arrives to chain pub, and Greta Thunberg’s view of Ballinahinch

Television: Since its debut in 2020, Emily in Paris has been variously celebrated as a guilty pleasure and lamented as a sure sign of civilisation’s downfall

Emily and colleagues have moved to Rome, where they’re doing what they do best: having sexual relationships with their clients

Hollywood studio and streaming company open to new bid but there are doubts over Ellison family funding