The Irish Times

Patrick Freyne: Paul Hollywood’s handshake is like being gripped by the full force of your father’s love

Who could replace Mary Berry, named after both the mother of Christ and a popular cake filling?

Fri Oct 08 2021 - 05:00

Donald Clarke: How do we know autumn is here? The Great British Bake Off is back

Anna Beattie pitched for four years before the BBC took a punt in 2009

Sat Sept 18 2021 - 05:00

Emer McLysaght: Please, Great British Bake Off, heal our pandemic wounds with your creamy horns

The show returns on Tuesday and while it might not fix the world at least it brings joy

Sat Sept 18 2021 - 01:00

Cheryl Tweedy, Noel Fielding bring phone-hacking claims against Mirror publisher

Cases continuing as predictions final industry-wide bill for damages and legal fees could hit £1bn

Mon May 31 2021 - 11:18

Roland Gift: ‘Everyone on our street was black or brown or Irish. To me that was normal’

The Fine Young Cannibal on being Hull’s ‘first black punk’ and his creative renaissance

Wed Dec 09 2020 - 06:00

Great British Bake Off: wacky Matt Lucas joins wacky Noel Fielding. It’s terrifying

Patrick Freyne: Paul Hollywood has emerged from slumber and is hungry for power – and cakes

Fri Oct 02 2020 - 05:00

The Great British Bake Off: Who’ll take over from Sandi Toksvig?

We weigh up some possible contenders, from Nadiya Hussain to, er, Jeremy Paxman

Fri Jan 17 2020 - 15:54

Great British Bake Off final: Drama and disaster. Paul Hollywood couldn't bear it

Review: It was a dramatic and tearful end to a Bake Off year that fell flat

Wed Oct 30 2019 - 09:49

The Great British Bake Off: Judge stabs baker with hot skewer – verbally

Review: Self-referencing contestants add charming colour to show’s reliable format

Wed Aug 28 2019 - 11:30

The Great British Bake Off subtly prepares for post-Brexit living

The show’s idyllic setting sits outside the common market, part of no customs union

Sat Nov 03 2018 - 05:30

Prue Leith: Sex, custard and chopping people up with an axe

A chat with the ‘indiscreet’ Bake Off judge and cookery writer can take surprising turns

Sat Sept 29 2018 - 01:00

The nine best Netflix shows to watch in August

Ozark returns, plus a new animated sitcom from The Simpsons’s creator Matt Groening

Wed Aug 01 2018 - 06:00

Disenchantment: first trailer revealed for Matt Groening’s new series

Disenchantment, ‘The Simpsons’ creator’s first new production in two decades, follows a boozed-up medieval princess

Thu Jun 28 2018 - 23:40

Disenchantment: Matt Groening reveals what new show will look like

Simpsons creator’s ‘adult fantasy’, his first new show in 20 years, will air on Netflix this summer

Thu May 24 2018 - 06:00

I love you, Paul Hollywood, I say, while spitting cake and crying icing sugar

Patrick Freyne: Ignore the mythical Beeby Sea: Great British Bake Off has always been on Channel 4

Sat Mar 10 2018 - 05:00

‘Any chance of a passport?’ asks the Queen while Lars Von Trier takes on Mrs Brown

Patrick Freyne previews this year’s Christmas TV and gives away some plot twists

Sat Dec 23 2017 - 05:00

New ingredients for ‘The Great British Bake Off’, but does it taste the same?

After its controversial move from the BBC to Channel 4 this year, the baking show returns

Tue Aug 29 2017 - 22:00

Channel 4 is using the wrong ingredients for its ‘Bake Off’ recipe

Few crumbs of comfort for GBBO fans as baking show moves kitchens

Tue Aug 29 2017 - 07:08

The Mist review: Spot the anxiety amid the ham-fisted tosh

Bundling the gravity of sexual assault into the hokum of killer fog is a mistake

Fri Aug 25 2017 - 13:56

The State review: What has driven 1,000 UK people to fight with Isis?

Peter Kosminsky’s four-part drama shows how. But what about the why?

Thu Aug 24 2017 - 05:00

Once upon a pair of wheels: Edgar Wright on Baby Driver

‘Closest thing to a British Quentin Tarantino’ on his movie about a getaway driver who loves tunes

Fri Jun 23 2017 - 06:00

‘Snakes vs Iguana’ named TV moment of the year at Baftas

Watch the thrilling sequence that brought David Attenborough one of two TV 2016 Baftas

Mon May 15 2017 - 09:00

Julian Barratt: from The Mighty Boosh to a ‘Partridgean joke’

Barratt plays a ridiculous 1980s TV star in his new comedy film, Mindhorn

Thu May 04 2017 - 05:00

New ‘Great British Bake Off’ line-up revealed

Channel 4 announces replacements for Mary Berry, Sue Perkins and Mel Giedroyc

Thu Mar 16 2017 - 21:29

White actor playing Michael Jackson makes singer’s daughter ‘want to vomit’

Paris Jackson says Joseph Fiennes’ TV portrayal of the black singer is ‘offensive’

Thu Jan 12 2017 - 17:00

Johnny Depp as Donald Trump – almost as funny as the real thing

Review: ‘The Art of the Deal: The Movie’, ‘Fortune’s Wheel’, ‘The Big Fat Quiz of Everything’

Fri Aug 19 2016 - 15:00

Britons combat post-Brexit racism by wearing safety pins

#SafetyPin campaign started after reported rise in hate crimes since referendum

Wed Jun 29 2016 - 12:19

Select: The history of iconic breakfast characters

How Tony the Tiger and the Honey Monster sweet-talked us into breakfast

Fri May 06 2016 - 11:00

Doll and Em: you’ll laugh, you’ll projectile cry

Lifelong friends Dolly Wells and Emily Mortimer make their relationship awkward in a new sitcom, the latest comedy to feature people portraying distorted versions of themselves

Mon Feb 17 2014 - 01:00