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Including Ballard, Foundation, Dexter: Resurrection and The Summer I Turned Pretty

TV standouts such as Adolescence or Squid Game only underline a sense that the era of truly popular culture is slipping away

Overheard: Dubliner Paul Mangan’s collection of bizarre items grew so much his friends joked he should open a museum - so he did

TV highlights for June 8th-13th, including From that Small Island – the Story of the Irish and Fubar

Television: Starring Matthew Goode, this forensic mystery threaded through a cantakerous cop story gradually reels you in

Easy to set up, as long as you don’t drive a BMW, it expands in car entertainment options when you’re parked up

Items include silk floral printed day dress estimated to fetch up to €265,000

Including Stick, We Were Liars, The Bear, Squid Game, and Smoke

TV highlights for the week May 31st-June 6th

Sirens, starring Julianne Moore and Kevin Bacon, exists in a heightened reality

The former White Lotus supporting actor takes the lead in the new Netflix series that airs this week

Previously undisclosed material in recently released Netflix documentary sheds new light on killing of Limerick businessman in US

Seán Moncrieff: Men seem held back by a range of factors, which presumably vary depending on the male in question

Debut novelist Florence Knapp on her remarkable new novel, the influence of Irish authors on her work, and that long journey into publishing fiction

Netflix series review: It’s hard to see how we needed another documentary about this murderous couple, yet here we are

Estate agents on the less glamorous side of the business – from cleaning up after foxes to acting as a counsellor

Expert advice commissioned by Coimisiún na Meán argued in favour of introducing such a levy on a sliding scale

US president’s move to defend streamers was followed by Minister for Arts Patrick O’Donovan’s decision not to accept advice from Coimisiún na Meán to implement a ‘Netflix levy’

Inside Politics: Tánaiste answers questions about housing, Occupied Territories Bill, a proposed levy on streamers like Netflix and more

Television: Molly and Thomas Martens reassert their own allegations and bizarre fabrications as Corbett’s children also feature in film

Government was urged to introduce content levy at ‘earliest possible date’ to fund domestic film and TV production

Including Anna Haugh’s Big Irish Food Tour, A Deadly American Marriage, Malpractice and more

On E4’s The Honesty Box, a bunch of hunks and hunkettes must obey the whims of a glowing red cube. Would that life were so simple for the rest of us!

Television review: Mean-spirited and pessimistic portrait of three couples going through midlife malaise is devoid of laughs

Including Murderbot, Welcome to Wrexham, The Better Sister, Dept Q and Bono: Stories of Surrender

The film-maker and author, who starred in Family Ties with Michael J Fox in the 1980s, has strong views on plastic surgery, ‘woke’ culture and Hollywood

Coimisiún na Meán is engaging regularly with online platforms over such material

Television: This Netflix show is so deliriously cheesy that nobody could take it seriously. The series ending feels like a mercy killing

Including Andor, Severance, The Last of Us, Your Friends & Neighbors, and Adolescence

Tom Hardy is top-notch, but what sets this film apart is the poetic mayhem of a creator raised on Asian greats

Streaming service’s shares gain as earnings beat Wall Street’s forecasts

Streamer has been building its true crime franchise for a decade. But is it always a good thing?

We already have a TV licence fee, says Conor Pope, the Irish Times consumer affairs correspondent. But with a well-designed levy, the consumer wouldn’t pay, argues independent producer Larry Bass

Experts who work with young offenders discuss whether the Netflix series Adolescence is true to life

Known to a new generation of fans for her Bafta-winning Bad Sisters performance, Duff is back in Reunion, a gritty four-part thriller

They might be ‘daggers in the screen’ to some writers, but notes from producers are also a marker of success

Minister for Media Patrick O’Donovan indicates no intention to introduce additional charge

Television: Charlie Brooker’s future-shock science fiction may be surplus to requirements. Could any future be any more shocking than our present reality?

Representative body for writers warns Patrick O’Donovan that decision puts their economic livelihoods at risk

Minister for Media says he does not support a levy on streaming services at the moment