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Sharp drop in TV licence sales in June and early July amid RTÉ controversy

The total decrease in sale and renewals for the period represents a 27 per cent drop, and a loss of €933,920

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What to watch, listen to and play this week: James Nesbitt stars in a new detective show

Suspect, based on a Danish series, brings Detective Danny Frater face to face with his daughter’s alleged suicide, while How to Hire a Hitman meets some real-life characters with murderous intentions

What to watch, listen to and play this week: David Morrissey returns with a brooding new drama

The much-anticipated six-part series Sherwood looks at a pair of 2004 murders in Nottinghamshire, while RTÉ legend Charlie Bird is the subject of a candid new documentary

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What to watch, listen to and play this week: More summer shenanigans as Love Island returns

Laura Whitmore introduces a new crew of love hopefuls, while RTÉ takes a nostalgic look back at Irish rock in the 1970s

What to watch and listen to this week: An old European favourite gets a compelling reBoot

The modern incarnation of the classic German submarine saga Das Boot is back for a third season, while historian Lucy Worsley takes a closer look at the impact of the bubonic plague

Emmanuel Kehoe on TV: Odenkirk answers the Call for the last time, but in fine style

The return of Better Call Saul for its sixth and final season is a bona fide TV event, and a tour de force of magnetic acting

Emmanuel Kehoe on TV: Samuel L Jackson rages against the dying of the light in The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey

The veteran actor is compulsively watchable as a dementia-afflicted senior citizen

What to watch and listen to this week: Dermot Bannon under the spotlight and a celebrity memoir book club

The Room to Improve architect is the subject of ‘constructive criticism’ in the last episode of the current series

What to watch and listen to this week: Peaky Blinders enters its final stretch, and Killing Eve returns with more coal-black humour

Emmanuel Kehoe on TV: With Pam & Tommy, Disney goes down a very different cartoonish path

Lily James and Sebastian Stan give terrific performances as a volatile celebrity couple in the tale of a stolen sex tape

What to watch and listen to this week: Vikings: Valhalla begins on Netflix and Dermot Bannon is back with a new Room to Improve

Jason Byrne interview: ‘Stand-up comedy is like a curse sometimes. You can’t just step away’

The Dublin-born comedian's livelihood was badly damaged by the pandemic, but a recent health scare means he’s keeping everything very much in perspective

TV review: Lifting the lid on horrors behind closed doors

RTÉ Investigates’s searing look at the rise in domestic violence during lockdown was the highlight of the television week

Radio and podcast review: An audio journey through the 20th century’s greatest novel

To mark the 100th anniversary of James Joyce’s Ulysses, listeners can appreciate the work through essays, lectures and a full RTÉ dramatisation dating from 1982

TV review: Callanan weaves a beautiful and intriguing portrait of Joyce

The recently deceased historian’s documentary 100 Years of Ulysses was mesmeric and absorbing

TV review: Fellowes’s New York extravaganza shows all that’s Gilded is not gold

Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes’s new period drama, set in 1880s New York, is an unsubtle and clunky affair

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TV: Will Ozark’s unhappy family finally get their comeuppance?

Drug importers and money launderers, the Byrdes dream of respectability and redemption. But as the bodies mount up, it is hard to see how the final series can grant the family those wishes

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TV: Slaughter on the Wild Atlantic Way as long-lost secrets resurface

The second series of RTÉ’s intense family drama, Smother, got off to a bloody start