Shona McCarthy, the Irish woman running the world’s biggest arts festival, is heading home: ‘I’m tired. You feel it to your bones’
After 35 years of nonstop work, this ardent advocate for the arts is about to catch her breath
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Breeders: This is a portrayal of parenthood warts – or screams – and all
TV review: Martin Freeman has an authentic take on the undignified reality of child-rearing
Martin Freeman: ‘I’m not nice, not your best mate. I’m angry and a bit superior’
In Breeders, the Office and Sherlock actor has created a dark comedy about parenting
What if ‘Love Actually’ is actually not that bad?
The uneven comedy has become as much a Christmas tradition as the ire it provokes
What ever happened to Brendan Gleeson’s ‘Mr Mercedes’?
It’s one of several big-budget shows, some good, that got lost in the churn of too-much TV
Bafta TV awards: Graham Norton and Brian F O’Byrne among winners
Molly Windsor beats Claire Foy to take leading actress while Sue Perkins highlights pay gap issue
TV this weekend: The Rock takes on Graham Norton
Paul McGrath marks his anniversary on ‘Ray D’Arcy’, while Trinny Woodall appears on the ‘Late Late’
Ghost Stories: Scares and floating sheets in dismal Britain
Review: Adaptation of the play ‘Dead of Night’ transfers the show-stopping moments well
‘Black Panther’: sparking a revolution in black culture
Latest chapter in Marvel cinematic universe more than another superhero film
Black Panther: This film is revolutionary. Just not that good
Review: It features a black superhero, but the CGI is suffocating and the plot is weak
Texas gunman escaped from mental health facility in 2012
Devin Kelley, who killed 26 people, able to buy weapon after federal database error
Texas church gunman was involved in domestic with mother-in-law
Killer of 26 people was discharged from US Air Force for assaulting his spouse and child
Texas killings: Sutherland Springs the latest name synonymous with atrocity
Fourteen children and eight members of the same family among worshippers massacred
Sherlock TV review: the show got hacked twice over the weekend
Russian hackers may have leaked the episode, but the show’s makers have taken a once smart and nimble show and made it bloated and bedazzled
Bafta TV awards: Wolf Hall wins big as BBC reform criticised
Peter Kay stands silent and feigns shock at winning award instead of giving speech
Making a murderer with Derren Brown
Pushed to the Edge is an elaborate ruse in which unsuspecting strangers are coaxed into what they think is murder by mentalist Derren Brown. It’s an experiment. And it’s depraved.
Terry Wogan pulls out of Children in Need show
Dermot O’Leary will take over from broadcaster who cancelled due to medical advice
The Unthanks: the light and the dark of English folk music
The group have been singing the canon for a decade – but what happens now that they are making their own music?
Television: ‘The Restaurant’ reopens, but the menu’s not what it used to be
Review: The product placement would put you off eating at TV3’s new place, where Jackie Lavin is this week’s celeb cook. On RTÉ, Norah Casey has a lot more luck
The Hobbit review: One last slog through Middle Earth
Sorry Peter Jackson, but we’re all Orc’d out - Battle of the Five Armies is both way too much and not nearly enough
Bert and Ernie’s romance offers a lesson in tolerance
Opinion: Reporting the Christian bakery sends the message that it is not okay to disagree
Television: Biopic of comic genius far more fun than the weird atmosphere of ‘Fargo’
David Threlfall is enjoyably bumbling as the lead in a classy biopic of one of TV’s most impersonated stars
Benedict Cumberbatch: "I have been the bearer of a few secrets this year"
Benedict Cumberbatch first set hearts aflutter in the BBCs hugely popular Sherlock, which returns on New Year’s Day, and has since made great waves playing Julian Assange, Khan and now, as the voice of Smaug, the dragon in The Hobbit. He has also made a big impact on the world of otters. He talks to Donald Clarke
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