Saturday Night Live: ‘You can take the temperature of America by watching that show’
Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray and other stars of the US comedy were regular visitors when Jason Reitman was young. Now he’s made Saturday Night about its first episode
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Actor and comedian
‘Succession? I thought, I don’t want to write for a load of white men who are evil’
A career working on Succession, Veep, The Thick of It and other hit TV shows has given Georgia Pritchett a taste for finding the humanity in even the worst characters
Biden vows to end ‘season of darkness’ as he accepts Democratic nomination
Candidate quotes Heaney’s ‘The Cure at Troy’ and the moment ‘when hope and history rhyme’
Onward: An underwhelming new Pixar fantasy
Review: Dan Scanlon’s film is an improvement on his pointless Monsters University
Emmy nominations 2019: Fiona Shaw and Chris O’Dowd among nominees
Irish actors up for three awards, as Game of Thrones breaks records with 32 nominations
Life of a stuntwoman: ‘When I had the baby, I knew it was the end of me jumping off things’
Despite being set on fire and buried, Co Wicklow woman Eimear O’Grady says she is not a thrillseeker
Emmys 2018: ‘Game of Thrones’ and ‘Marvelous Mrs Maisel’ win top awards
‘Game of Thrones’ wins for best drama while ‘The Marvelous Mrs Maisel’ wins five awards, including best actress in a comedy series
Succession: The comedy drama that’s definitely not about the Murdochs
Jesse Armstrong’s new show targets America’s rich and powerful TV barons
‘Seinfeld’ actor Julia Louis-Dreyfus battling breast cancer
HBO says actor got diagnosis a day after she won 6th Emmy for her role as Meyer in ‘Veep’
Television: ‘Frat Boys’ – Nice teeth. Shame about the sexism
Review: ‘Frat Boys: Inside America’s Fraternities’, ‘The Border’, ‘Mr v Mrs: Call the Mediator’
Letter from Sydney: Turnbull moves from Dr Do-little to man of action
The Australian prime minister promised change and then sat back: until defeat loomed
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’
David Letterman ends legacy with irreverence
Talk-show host finishes 33-year career by doing what he did best – make fun of himself
Top Emmys go to Breaking Bad and Modern Family
Comedian Billy Crystal delivers touching tribute to Robin Williams
Hollande woos Silicon Valley on first visit by French president in 30 years
Official visit aims to attract investment in France, where unemployment is at a 15-year high
American Hustle, Breaking Bad win Screen Actors Guild awards
Cate Blanchette and Downton Abbey’s Maggie Smith receive best actress gongs
American Hustle, 12 Years a Slave lead race for Golden Globes
Judi Dench nominated for for her role in Philomena
Television: A look back at the great drama on TV in 2013
‘The Fall’ epitomises TV drama’s rise and rise while Netflix flexes its muscles
Armando Iannucci on Veep: ‘Washington seems to have confessed it’s all true’
Iannucci brilliantly captured British politics with ‘The Thick of It’ and now he’s doing the same in the US with ‘Veep’. Despite this, he thinks politics is immune to his satire
Oscars lite? Surprises on Emmy night
Wise-cracking host Neil Patrick Harris’s tap-dancing and arch quips felt familiar, but the roster of winners on the night raised some eyebrows
Doctor describes attempt to revive ‘Sopranos’ actor Gandolfini
Actor had been scheduled to attend closing of Taormina Film Festival in Sicily on Saturday
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