Patrick Freyne: When the time comes, Dermot Bannon will visit us all – The Irish Times
Under Irish law, if Dermot Bannon demands entry to your house, you have to let him. He has…
Patrick Freyne: Euphoria is back, and I feel like I need to give my TV a bath – The Irish Times
Hey kids, it’s YassPat “Sigma” Freynemaxxer here, The Irish Times’ young people’s correspondent. Turn off your tikitytoks and…
Conception, birth and first brand partnership of an aristocratic nepo baby – The Irish Times
The royalists at Disney (they love a good princess story) are involved in a new reality-television social experiment…
Chatbots can now pass the Turing test. Lots of humans can’t – The Irish Times
Inside (Netflix) is a show fronted by the Sidemen, an amorphous mass of indistinguishable young men who live…
From Fargo to The Den, these reboots were made for gawking – The Irish Times
This week, Sarah Michelle Gellar, star of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series, announced that a planned…
Patrick Freyne on the manosphere influencers who shaped him from Charlie Haughey to Magnum PI – The Irish Times
Watching Inside the Manosphere, Louis Theroux’s decent new Netflix documentary about influencers with horrible attitudes to women and…
Britain has had enough of experts and royals. It’s now a celebritocracy – The Irish Times
Danny Dyer’s Caravan Park, that’s the new name for post-Brexit Britain, aka John Bull’s Island, aka Them Over…
The Muppets’ body horror might seem extreme, but children need to learn – The Irish Times
A frog, a pig, a bear, some chickens, a bespectacled human man made of felt, a piano-playing dog,…
If I could marry a TV show, I’d choose this one about a bearded man – The Irish Times
Small Prophets BBC TwoMain takeaway: it’s good to have a hobby I love the new Mackenzie Crook show,…
Adolescence writer Jack Thorne’s experiment in free-range parenting – The Irish Times
I believe that children are the future. As Marx said, we need to teach them well and let…
The Beauty asks big questions. What if sexy people got so hot they exploded? – The Irish Times
The Beauty isn’t just my nickname here at The Irish Times. It’s also the new show from American…
Patrick Freyne’s top 14 shows to look out for in 2026 – The Irish Times
Beef I watched the first series of this thinking it would be about the delicious foodstuff namechecked by…