TV guide: the best new shows to watch, starting tonight
April 13th-18th: including The Last of Us, Rebuilding Notre-Dame: The Last Chapter, and the final series of The Handmaid’s Tale
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Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart to reprise X-Men roles in new Avengers film
Kelsey Grammer, Alan Cumming, Chris Hemsworth, Paul Rudd, Letitia Wright, Vanessa Kirby and many more will join the duo in Avengers: Doomsday
TV guide: the best new shows to watch, beginning tonight
November 10th-15th: From the return of Wolf Hall to a Blindboy tale about one man and his giant fridge
RTÉ to bring hit reality show The Traitors to Ireland, with €50,000 up for grabs
RTÉ has commissioned an Irish version of the psychological game show, which pits 22 strangers against each other
‘I’m plain old Alan Cumming again’: Actor hands back his OBE, citing ‘toxicity of empire’
Scottish star says recent conversations about role of monarchy ‘opened his eyes’ to suffering of indigenous people around the world
Fra Fee: ‘I was completely terrified of coming out in Northern Ireland’
Cabaret star’s acting career has taken him from Tyrone to West End and LA
Alan Cumming on abuse: ‘I am better, but it is like a wound that is never going to go away’
The actor’s second memoir is neither tell-all nor reckoning. But it contains multitudes nonetheless
Monica Lewinsky: ‘I wanted a job, a husband, kids. I wanted to be treated normally’
Lewinsky is revisiting her scandalous affair with Bill Clinton for American Crime Story
Michael Stipe: ‘Cold-ass b**ch was a coat I put on to protect myself. I can take it off now’
The artist and REM singer talks American presidents, parties and photographing his heroes
Alan Cumming: ‘I never thought about my foreskin until I came to America’
The Hollywood star on Harvey Weinstein, optimism and his fight against circumcision
X-Men: Dark Phoenix: The plot feels like it was scribbled on a menu after a drunken lunch
Review: This sludgy mess fails to explain character, motivation or its elaborate set pieces
Nicola Coughlan: On My Culture Radar
The Derry Girls actor on Hamilton, why Fleabag is award-worthy, and her unexpected friend Jonathan Van Ness
It’s indulgent, disordered and wildly up itself. But you shouldn’t miss it
‘The Other Side of the Wind’ is just part of the Orson Welles flotilla docked at Netflix Cove
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekend
Julia Roberts and Owen Wilson wow in Wonder and James Franco hits gold in The Disaster Artist
Battle of the Sexes review: Game, set, match to Billy Jean
‘Male Chauvinist Pig versus Hairy Legged Feminist! You’re still a feminist, right?’
Ten of the best shows at the Edinburgh festivals
From Alan Cumming singing about Liza Minnelli to a heart-stopping play about depression, this year’s festival has had it all
The end is nigh for The Good Wife – it’s still the best thing on TV
In 2014 I wrote that the legal drama was the best show around – the news of its demise, and a few dodgy seasons since, haven’t changed my mind
Abbey Theatre appoints Neil Murray, Graham McLaren as directors
Pair to take over from Fiach MacConghail in joint capacity in 2016
Television: Wolf Hall is not your usual bodice ripper
The BBC’s Tudor drama is literate and atmospheric; an Irish documentary on being gay is quietly powerful when it stays on home ground; and the last word on RTÉ’s ‘Charlie’
Alan Cumming: ‘Something was not quite right about my father’
When the actor was told by his cruel, ailing father that he was not his son, the revelation inspired a memoir that puts a positive spin on a tough childhood
JK Rowling welcomes No result
Frankie Boyle, David Walliams and Marc Almond have their say on independence vote
The Good Wife: the best-made, most nuanced show on television
The show teases out troubling issues of race, gender, class and privilege – underestimate it at your peril
Alan Cumming: The hardest-working actor on the planet
Solo Macbeth on Broadway. Op-eds for the Wall Street Journal. Hit TV show. Book about circumcision. Equality activism. Photographic exhibition . . . Where does Alan Cumming find the time to make movies?
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