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Lisa Fallon: Why would we give away LOI product for free?
New pay-per-view only LOITV scheme works out at same cost per match as season tickets
Ozark returns this week for its final season. Here’s why it’s a must-see
Jason Bateman returns as the money-laundering creep in Netflix’s hit crime drama
Fintan O’Toole: Assault on US Capitol showed Trump where his market is
If Trump is not impeached and prosecuted for subversion he still has good chance of winning
Gordon D’Arcy: Fans would benefit from a peek behind the iron curtain
Behind the scenes access is important as it helps create and keep a new fan base
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Mad Men made perfect sense during the swirling disorder
How TV unexpectedly mirrored the lockdown reminding us we’re all in this together
Elisabeth Moss: ‘Something is actually wrong here and I’m not going crazy’
Unlike many stars, she has hardly put a foot wrong since her career-making role
Killarney Legion living the dream after 43 years of pain
There were tears of joy from fans and players after the unthinkable was achieved
Mad Men may be the next TV classic to profit from streamers’ ambitions
There’s an all-out streaming war coming. Enter Don Draper
Elizabeth McGovern: A lifetime of living and acting with alpha males
The Downton Abbey actor co-starred with Kevin Bacon, Mickey Rourke Brad Pitt and Sean Penn
Sometimes less is more – the gadgets and gizmos we can happily do without
Our homes are full of seemingly useful purchases which soon become redundant junk
Jennifer O’Connell: The three little words every woman wants to hear
I have erotic dreams about waking up and discovering my car has been valeted
Ridiculous premise, clunky dialogue, overwrought music? It must be an Irish radio ad
Amy O’Connor: At their best, radio ads can be warm and intimate and evocative. At their worst, they can be cloying and inane and become talking points in their own right.
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Review: There are women in the film, but none has anything you could call a personality
Following your dreams right into a pile of horsesh*t
Channel 4 Paradise Hunters shows how we’re poisoned by the notion of ‘experiences’
TV this weekend: Attenborough on eggs and Geldof on the ‘Late Late Show’
The Ray D’Arcy show will discuss consent in wake of Belfast trial while Aidan Gillen plays Dave Allen
Chiselled demigods and muscled heroes: Tom of Finland’s iconic images
New film about Nordic animator who was behind hugely influential post-war gay erotica
‘Twin Peaks’ reboot sees a new generation discover an old evil
What will Lynch find when he again goes digging around in America’s hopes and fears?
Klitschko and Joshua smile and flex but pivot away from trash talk
Eddie Hearn does best Don Draper impression during weigh-ins at Wembley Arena
How the hipster came to haunt modern culture
Irish Tribes Today, final part: This series of articles has largely been about how we perform our stories of ourselves for others and create our identities, and for the hipster, ‘Everything becomes just another signifier of personal identity’
In the Brand New Retro exhibit, everything old is naff again
‘Most of the ads are so terrible, it’s like Don Draper was never born’
How sludgy olive green became the official colour of cigarettes
The drab shade was deemed the most repellent - but will consumers always see it that way?
Ten of the best hotel restaurants for festive feasts
Hotels have come out of the boiled cabbage school of catering to be great places to eat
Emmys 2015: ‘Game of Thrones’ biggest winner with 12 awards
Viola Davis first African-American to win lead actress award for ‘How to Get Away With Murder’
Sideline Cut: Guinness risk leaving bitter taste with rugby ads
Gareth Thomas, Ashwin Willemse stories don’t sit well in sleek world of advertisement
Feminist porn: putting female desire in the picture?
Feminist porn occupies a new niche in a vast industry. Feminists are divided over whether it empowers women or simply internalises ‘porn ideology’
Don Draper would be amazed by marketing now
Marketing is moving away from the campaigns the ‘Mad Men’ ad men would have commanded
Television: Mad Men’s fantasy finale is classically uplifting, classically cynical
Review: ‘Mad Men’, ‘Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell’, ‘Grayson Perry’s Dream House’
Gerrard’s final bow an emotional moment for English football
If the Liverpool captain holds it together at Anfield he will be in the minority
Aisling’s Beauty Picks of the Week: smoothing foundation and a serum with a touch of the Don Drapers
The best beauty buys this week including a Nars Multiple, hydrating serums from Ren and Pestle & Mortar and covetable YSL eye colours
Television: BBC takes a bath on another Noah tale
Reviews: The Ark is hardly any fun at all; BBC Four covers 500 fascinating years of dentistry with hammers and tongs; and Irish speakers in the first World War are barely given their due
Will Don Draper of ‘Mad Men’ always be an ad man?
It’s impossible to envisage the series wrapping up with the creative director pursuing a new career
A whole new pitch as Jon Hamm faces life after Don
As the end approaches for Mad Men, Hamm takes his biggest film role yet, in baseball movie Million Dollar Arm. He talks about success, his sporting life, and ‘curious’ Daniel Radcliffe
Here comes Lorraine again
An Irishman’s Diary about one of Europe’s most fiercely contested territories
Wanted: Netflix ‘tagger’, must withstand TV torture
The company loves categorising everything, but its micro-genres can never be ‘objective’
Television: ‘Mad Men’ back on song, and hard times in ‘Happy Valley’
A peak performance by Peggy Olson, Bafta beckons for Sarah Lancashire, and John Lonergan shows his mettle as a mentor
A humdrum finale for two detectives and a loud start to a desperate do
An implausable change of heart and a barrage of existential nonsense give the lie to ‘True Detective’
The appeal of Garth Brooks is destined to remain a mystery to people like us
Opinion: The tapenade-eaters are always going to remain immune to the charms of ‘Mrs Brown’s Boys’
Imagine. Dads looking after their kids on their own. Hilarious
The lazy notion that fathers are inept is being challenged by daddy bloggers
A bitter sweet ending for Mad Men but Hershey is happy
Hershey didn’t know that it was to feature at all and told Vanity Fair it was “thrilled and incredibly flattered to be part of such a popular television show”
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