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Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV+: 10 of the best new shows to watch in December

Including Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, Squid Game season two, Beast Games, Harry Potter: Wizards of Baking and One Hundred Years of Solitude

Our Little Secret: Awkward! Lindsay Lohan’s Christmas flick may as well be AI generated

Ho ho ho, it’s a dull-witted, soundstage-bound romance with festive trimmings and a clockwork plot

Manifesto media pledges — ‘Netflix levy’, legal reform in 100 days and €500m a year for RTÉ

Election 2024: Sinn Féin remembers Coimisiún na Meán and other things gleaned from the parties’ media policies

‘It is a rough sport’: Katie Taylor floats above ‘dirty’ tactics allegation after win over Serrano

Because of the timing, the depth of what Taylor achieved here may not have fully registered as a genuinely great moment for Irish sport

Katie Taylor narrowly defeats Amanda Serrano in brutal contest

Irish boxer booed by crowd after head clash during controversial bout in Texas

Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano set to show true boxing values at strange big-money event

Mike Tyson and Jake Paul top the bill in a voyeuristic contest whose appeal may have been overestimated

Who is Jake Paul? The story of the YouTuber who will take on Mike Tyson

Despite his absurd persona and obscene wealth, would-be boxer’s support of female fighters is worthy of note

Mike Tyson’s glowering silence cuts through Netflix show noise

Tyson is set to earn $20 million for fighting Jake Paul in live-streamed event that also features Katie Taylor-Amanda Serrano rematch

Dave Hannigan: Katie Taylor’s presence lends a modicum of dignity to sporting farrago

Dubious bill in Texas topped by the clash of Jake Paul and Mike Tyson akin to one of those 19th century carnival sideshows

Bad Sisters review: Beautiful Dublin shines again as Sharon Horgan serves up another course of zinging dark comedy

Television: Beautiful Dublin shines again in series two of Apple’s comic thriller

Katie Taylor: ‘If you’re a boxing person it really matters Mike Tyson does well against Jake Paul’

World super lightweight champion faces Amanda Serrano in Texas on Friday night

Core’s Aidan Greene: ‘Amazon.ie will be a gamechanger for Irish advertising clients’

The marketing communications group grew its net profit to more than €4m last year and has expanded again in 2024

In Washington, the peaceful transfer of power surprises a city boarded up for violence

Planet Business: Royal private estate income, data-hungry air fryers and the companies keen for it to be Christmas already

Bill Nighy: ‘My grandmother kind of raised me. She was a proper Irish woman, a Catholic. I was to be a priest’

Love Actually actor talks about running away as a teenager, begging in Paris and breaking into acting

Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV+: 10 of the best new shows to watch in November

Including Bad Sisters season two, Say Nothing, Senna, Countdown: Paul vs Tyson and more

The Movie Quiz: In what Irish town is Cillian Murphy’s Small Things Like These set?

Plus: What was the only Netflix title among this year’s Oscar nominees for best picture?

If you need a reason to stay in bed this bank holiday, here’s what too little sleep is doing to you

There’s a good reason why the Guinness World Records team has banned attempts to stay awake

If you’re self employed, the time has come to file your tax return and avoid nasty surprises from Revenue

The best news, analysis and comment from The Irish Times business desk

Hot Rabbi but no Lord Baddingham as Netflix basks in ‘member happiness’

The streaming market leader missed a trick by not having Rivals on its platform, but it does like to make the odd pop at its actual rivals

Netflix beats forecasts in every major metric

Streaming service has added more than 60m users since cracking down on passwords

Netflix telling of Menendez murders chimes with elements of US election

Debate around dramatisation of dark family crime takes place within society populated by guns, privilege and versions of the truth

Does Sinn Féin’s two-candidate general election strategy lack ambition?

Inside Politics podcast with Hugh Linehan

Amazon to increase number of advertisements on Prime Video

Ecommerce group attempting to win over more brands as it steps up push into ad-funded streaming services in 2025

Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV+: 10 of the best new shows to watch in October

Including Disclaimer, Rivals, The Last Days of the Space Age, La Máquina and Citadel: Diana

Baby Reindeer was wrongly billed by Netflix as a ‘true story’, judge finds

US ruling allows woman accused of stalking Richard Gadd to pursue defamation case against Netflix

Nobody Wants This review: Breezy romcom lands like When Harry Met Sally for self-involved millennials

Television: Romcom starring Kristen Bell and Adam Brody is full of zinging gags but lacks a heart

Will & Harper review: Will Ferrell reconnects with trans friend in this feel-good odyssey

Road trip documentary could be seen as the anti-Top Gear special. Nicer, warmer, militantly tolerant

Fair dues to Nicole Kidman, but who’s watching all the telly she’s in?

With so many services, nobody can absorb this much comedy, drama, reality, documentary, news, sport and movies – or even grasp what’s available

How Netflix won the streaming wars

The company has staged a remarkable recovery since the ‘great correction’ of 2022 and now has the edge over Hollywood rivals

TV guide: The best new shows to watch, beginning tonight

September 15th-20th: From the origin story of child prodigy Mozart to Colin Farrell as the Penguin

Outlast feels like another trial run for the collapse of civilisation

The reality for the survivalists on this terribly named Netflix show is a bit mundane and not even particularly wolf filled

The Perfect Couple review: Eve Hewson aside, this White Lotus-esque thriller is exhausting stuff

Television: Dublin actor more than holds her own against big stars such as Nicole Kidman and Liev Schreiber

Eve Hewson on finding her own fame: ‘Some people have no idea of the connection or don’t even care. It’s a nice feeling’

When young, she questioned whether people were her friends because they liked her, or because they liked her father Bono

Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV+: 10 of the best new shows to watch in September

Including Slow Horses series four, WandaVision spin-off Agatha All Along, a final Grand Tour, and Eve Hewson and Nicole Kidman in The Perfect Couple

Barry Keoghan to star alongside Cillian Murphy in Peaky Blinders film

Dublin actor will take on an undisclosed role in Steven Knight’s Birmingham-based period drama

Emily in Paris review: The equivalent of binging on marzipan – delicious at first, too much after a while

Television: Lily Collins delivers a performance full of comedic zing in season four, even as the story goes to potentially dark places

Sky, Netflix, Virgin and sports: How to manage your TV and streaming expenses

Special offers, contract savings and why you should try to swerve the new ‘streaming TV’ services if you like recording programmes

The 50 best films on Netflix, plus gems from Disney+, Apple TV+, Prime Video and Paramount+

From Arrival to The Zone of Interest, our picks also take in everything from Halloween and Lost in Translation to Lawrence of Arabia and Pinocchio

Baby Reindeer’s Richard Gadd: ‘The series is based on my life and real-life events but is a fictionalised retelling’

Woman is suing Netflix, claiming she inspired the stalker character Martha in the show

Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV+: 10 of the best new shows to watch in August

Including Kaos, Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power, Emily in Paris, Only Murders in the Building, The Umbrella Academy and Bad Monkey

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