Brian Cox

One fundamental truth about the hit show – it’s a comedy until suddenly it isn’t

As Rupert buys a mega-ranch, it’s hard not to think: haven’t we seen this episode already?

From farming and food talks to TV specials to online live events, the future is here again

After a long slump, the actor’s career came roaring back with his role in the prestige series

Healthy 32-year-old called for vaccination after miscalculation gives him BMI of 28,000

She is the latest of many actors to wrestle with the blue suit and tortured vowels

TV review: Shakespearean bathos hangs over BBC’s The Rise of the Murdoch Dynasty

How TV unexpectedly mirrored the lockdown reminding us we’re all in this together

He interviews both ministers and hairdressers with professionalism and passion

The Succession actor on a royal encounter and the welcome distraction of getting stoned

There is a need to support pure science but there remains a place for wonder and fun

Cosmologist speaks at Young Scientist exhibition in Dublin

‘It gives you hope’, says BT Ireland managing director Shay Walsh

Saoirse Ronan, nominated for Little Women performance, loses out to Renée Zellweger

Funniest programmes are of the hand-drawn variety like Rick and Morty

Review: A likeable salute to a Magic Ireland we don’t see much anymore

More than 945,000 people have now signed the petition, surpassing the 100,000-signature debate threshold

One of his society-enriching ideas is a crash course in human knowledge for world leaders

Despite an easy target like Richard Branson, the impressions capture little and send up less – and the jokes are hopelessly weak

Ireland rugby hero Peter O’Mahony and Boyzone on the Late Late, Nicole Kidman joins Graham Norton and Michael Parkinson chats to Ray D’Arcy

Brendan Coyle is best known as Downton’s valet Mr Bates, but he’s in darker territory at the Dublin Theatre Festival in Conor McPherson’s vampire tale ‘St Nicholas’

The new show from ‘The Thick of It’ writer Jesse Armstrong focuses on vicious in-fighting of a media mogul's family

Jesse Armstrong’s new show targets America’s rich and powerful TV barons

Hurling’s rich history in The Game, squabbling siblings and lots of Botox in Age Before Beauty – oh, and the ‘Love Island’ finale

Review: Super Troopers belong to 2001, when Linkin Park were big and Clinton was president

Incredibles 2, Ocean’s 8, Jurassic World and Mamma Mia!: Here We Go Again

Kristin Scott Thomas on how French cinema has better roles for women, playing Churchill's wife – and Brexit

Bestselling author and illustrator Oliver Jeffers always had ‘a sense of curiosity about the world’. But his perspective changed with the arrival of his son

In ‘Munich’, Robert Harris exorcises a lifelong obsession by challenging the British myths he grew up with about the second World War

Thanks for capturing the imagination and taking some of the most beautiful pictures ever taken in space

The ‘Mock the Week’ host on Irishness, Britishness and life as the voice of reason

Brian Cox does excellent work in the title role – unfortunately, often against the script

Show introduced us to home computers (1967), ATMs (1969) and mobile phone (1979)

Emile Hirsch and Brian Cox are father-and-son coroners having a very weird night at the morgue

The Jes have too much nouse for plucky Summerhill College at the Sportgsround

Under-investment in education has produced people who ‘don’t know how to think’

Listening to documentaries is an entertaining way to learn about a new subject

RTE documentary ‘Bypassed’ uncovers the tough stories and positive action of locals living near the M7

Brian Cox’s wide-eyed awe prove infectious in his latest take on our universe

Garda beaten up and stabbed as he tried to arrest a man in Ballinteer, south Dublin