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Jon Hamm
Say what you like about Hannibal Lecter, but he had joie de vivre. Unlike Jack Reacher
Patrick Freyne: The show, which stars the widest Alan in existence, is the United States’ id as expressed by a malfunctioning AI
Patrick Freyne on Surviving Paradise: Where did the contestants learn about emotional expression? From emojis?
Some of the young Americans in this reality mash-up are sent to the forest, where they network and hustle and TedTalk their life stories at one another
Maggie Moore(s): What are Jon Hamm and Tina Fey doing in this ill-advised murder comedy?
Director John Slattery cannot reconcile the cacophony of incongruous tones in this tale of two namesake murder victims
Waxwork drinkers, Europe’s new tech prince and logos that look like something else
Planet Business: Box office blues, the sequel
Patrick Freyne: Wild Mountain Thyme and my all-time favourite Oirish films
Here’s seven of the best Oirish films including a soulful hunky IRA man, and a corned beef and cabbage plot
Wild Mountain Thyme trailer: What in the name of holy bejaysus is this cowpat?
Film with Emily Blunt, Jamie Dornan, Christopher Walken is laden with patronising Paddywhackery
Mad Men made perfect sense during the swirling disorder
How TV unexpectedly mirrored the lockdown reminding us we’re all in this together
Lucy in the Sky: Terrible title, curiously earthbound tale
Review: Natalie Portman is hidebound as an astronaut heading for a nervous breakdown
The Report: 20 shades of gloom in the search for a troubling truth
Review: Adam Driver intense as investigator who uncovered CIA’s torture methods
Old father time: becoming a dad later in life
Many men are now in their 40s or 50s when children come along. But there are risks, say experts
Top Gun sequel is here to remind us some things can remain exactly the same
Tom Cruise was as unblemished as a newly born kitten 34 years ago and not much has changed
Godzilla: King of the Monsters – More cliches than a 1970s disaster movie
Review: The monsters don’t need to eat the scenery, as the main cast have that covered
Neil Gaiman on honouring Terry Pratchett’s last request: ‘You have to do this’
The writer explains how his four years of intense devotion to ‘Good Omens’ will never happen again
Bad Times at the El Royale: Up-itself post-Tarantino flop
Review: director Drew Goddard has made a pastiche of a pastiche of a pastiche. Could that be right?
Tag: John Hamm's ironic raised eyebrows the star attraction
Review: There are women in the film, but none has anything you could call a personality
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
‘I’d rather kids made street art than hang around corners taking ketamine’
Actor and film-maker John Connors on his favourite artist, album, play and TV shows
Baby Driver: slick flick, dazzling car chase, killer soundtrack
Shaun of the Dead director Edgar Wright has made his best film in more than a decade
Once upon a pair of wheels: Edgar Wright on Baby Driver
‘Closest thing to a British Quentin Tarantino’ on his movie about a getaway driver who loves tunes
Facebook pushes augmented reality through smartphones
Founder Mark Zuckerberg says AR isn’t just about finding a nearby Pokemon
The unbreakable lightness of being Kimmy Schmidt
As the second season of Tina Fey's critically acclaimed Netflix comedy launches today, the cast talk big laughs, bad tempers and accidentally peeing on your co-star
Golden Globes 2016: Full list of winners
Alejandro González Iñárritu’s ‘The Revenant’ takes three awards in Los Angeles
Television: Cry me a River and pay tribute to the Don – the small-screen year
Year in review: From ‘Red Rock’ to Aidan Turner’s biceps in ‘Poldark’ and Don Draper’s final ad campaign in ‘Mad Men’, TV delivered the goods in 2015
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’
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
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
Christina Hendricks: ‘People think I’m Joan. They think I’m sexy and sophisticated and really cool’
How do you leave the office politics of ‘Mad Men’ behind? Starring opposite the late Philip Seymour Hoffman is a smart move. TV's `embodiment of beauty’ talks about saying goodbye to Joan, surviving high school and the power of hair colour
The big bucks theory
The actors in the Big Bang Theory comedy show are about to become the highest paid in TV history, as shooting begins on an eighth series. But has the world’s most watched comedy programme lost its edge?
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’
Television: A feast for the eyes, but slim pickings for fashion-watchers
The President’s State visit to Britain was proper event TV – history in the making – and RTÉ’s coverage did it justice
In a World... director Lake Bell shows off her vocal talents
After a decade paying her dues, writer, director, actor Lake Bell’s has made a big splash with her first feature about Hollywood’s voice-over community
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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