Irish audiences have praised the Tommy Tiernan Show as the best chat show on RTE. The Saturday night talk show returned this weekend for its fifth series with guests Andrea Corr and Sunday World crime reporter Nicola Tallant.
Irish star Nicola Coughlan refused to watch parts of one BRIDGERTON episode with her mum because of the sex scenes. Nicola, best known for her role in DERRY GIRLS, plays a starring role in BRIDGERTON which is becoming one of the biggest Netflix hits of recent months.
The Irish director talks the timelessness of hand-drawn animation and, how, when he started working on WOLFWALKERS years ago, he did not foresee its themes of polarization and otherization becoming depressingly timely in 2020.
JAMIE DORNAN will likely always be remembered as Christian Grey, FIFTY SHADES OF GREY ’s businessman with kinks for BDSM in his own Red Room. But the 38-year-old is now two years removed from the franchise and exploring some new roles that challenge his talents and the audience’s perception of the actor.
Director EMER REYNOLDS is bringing the magic of PHIL LYNOTT’s music to moviegoers with her documentary PHIL LYNOTT: SONGS FOR WHILE I’M AWAY. It’s a powerful, universal reminder of how a mixed-race boy from 1950s Dublin became one of rock music’s greatest front-men.
Director JULIEN TEMPLE never considered making a film about Shane MacGowan until MacGowan himself asked him to. The result is CROCK OF GOLD: A FEW ROUNDS WITH SHANE McGOWAN — a 2hr documentary detailing how the singer, who was born in England to Irish parents, rose to become a Guinness-swilling music legend..
Dublin-born Irish acting legend, COLM MEANEY, has expressed his desire to appear on the Northern Irish hit show DERRY GIRLS. The hilarious show, which has won over audiences all over the world, appears to be a favourite of one of Ireland’s most successful actors.
Ireland is the setting for THE RACER, a new film chronicling the blood doping, sweat and tears that went into the Tour de France during a dark period in professional cycling. Set against the sordid truth of what went into the world’s greatest road cycle race, it serves as a showcase of the agonizing pain and physical punishment world-class athletes endure on their rise to the top.
