If modern elite football is a camp television drama, the Real Madrid manager’s theatrics make him the main character

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?’

Screen Ireland figures show production spending contributed record €544m to economy in 2025

AI is cited as the latest threat to Hollywood’s survival, yet box office revenues are at record levels

Ashford Studios had sought permission for an additional five film studios as part of expansion plan at Kellystown site

Television: Set in 1980s LA, this show may be shallow but creates quite a splash

TV, radio, video-on-demand and streamers all jostle for attention but the instruments that measure them remain separate and mutually unintelligible

The British comedian was a fan of fried chicken until he made his gruesome documentary, Big Chicken: A Fast Food Conspiracy

Your guide to streaming, including Alley Cats, Lioness, Dark Matter, The Shards and the return of Ted Lasso

Holly Willoughby Together has been compared to the found-footage horror film With Love, Meghan, but things improve when Stanley Tucci breezes in

Markets fear streamer has lost momentum

Television: This golf romp tries to replicate the magic of a genre whose time has passed

No enterprise could absorb an 18-year price freeze on its primary revenue stream while costs keep climbing

These books are politically wrong, but they’re also well written

Netflix’s Little House on the Prairie feeds into the fantasy that settlers have a great moral message (‘finders keepers’)

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

As the chess boom takes hold, getting official recognition as a sport will unlock funding, says the Irish Chess Union

Deal comes as less than a quarter of 16-24-year-olds’ in-home viewing is now of content from broadcasters

Your guide to streaming, including The Hawk, Elle, a new Little House on the Prairie, Lucky and Furious

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