Michael Gambon who connected with young and not so young Harry Potter fans worldwide as their beloved Albus Dumbledore is to receive a lifetime achievement award from the Irish Film and Television Academy.

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Earlier this week, there were rumours that Angela Lansbury would be appearing in Game of Thrones Season 7. Fortunately for the citizens of Westeros, the Murder She Wrote star will not feature in the upcoming season.

Good afternoon. Here’s all the news you need to know this lunchtime.

Game of Thrones season 7 is going to be pretty epic television, with a shorter run and a headlong sprint towards the finale coming in season eight.

Eamonn Holmes is stepping down from hosting Sky News Sunrise after 11 years.

Judi Dench, Dominic West and Ed Sheeran are among the stars to auction off personal drawings to raise money for breast cancer.

Ryan Reynolds turned up during the press junket for Eddie the Eagle to rip the piss out of Hugh Jackman for our amusement

Another quiet week in cinemas with the biggest news definitely being the arrival of Steve Jobs. There's some horror in Ireland-shot The Hallow and some family drama stuff thanks to Fathers and Daughters.

The final series of Downton Abbey begins on Sunday on ITV, and on Tuesday on TV3.

A period romantic drama starring Saoirse Ronan and Domhnall Gleeson, Brooklyn will be coming to Irish cinemas in November 2015

BRITAIN: The comeback Teletubbies have been revealed — complete with touch-screens on their stomachs.

Eh-oh! – classic TV show Teletubbies is returning to the small-screen with the addition of a must-have 21st century gadget – a mobile-style phone voiced by Jane Horrocks.

Your guide to tonight's TV.

Here's what's on today for you Saturday couch potatoes.

UK: They are the dreaded Christmas present from your grandmother, the underwear you might want to rethink if you are hoping for a sizzling end to a date.

EVERYONE needs a shower buddy, right? Fresh from escaping the clutches of their despicable employers in Horrible Bosses (2011), Nick (Jason Bateman), Kurt (Jason Sudeikis) and Dale (Charlie Arbus) set up their own company in Horrible Bosses 2 (15A). 

Oscar-winning beauty Nicole Kidman was among the stars to brave the pouring rain at the premiere of Paddington the movie.

From food to fashion, movies to music, our critics pick their hot 100 for autumn.

Your spoiler free guide to what's on the box tonight.

Writer Blake Morrison, best known for the award-winning memoir, And When Did You Last See Your Father — it was adapted into a film starring Jim Broadbent and Colin Firth — will read at the West Cork Literary Festival, which begins on Sunday.

Your daily spoiler-free guide to what to look out for on the box.

This is already showing signs of being a good year for film production, with a number of high-profile projects scheduled to begin filming around the country.

THE puppet allows a ventriloquist to say all manner of things — lewd, nasty and, in the case of Nina Conti, who performs at the Cork Opera House on Monday, darn funny.

Boyzone star Ronan Keating has been added to the cast of Postman Pat: The Movie — playing the singing voice of the cheery postie.

MUSIC NEWS: It’s been far too long since we’ve seen a new video from the Rubberbandits, and we’re glad to confirm that new track ‘Hey Mister’ reinforces the Limerick duo’s reputation as the sharpest social commentators in Irish music.

The Fifth Estate (15A) is a dramatisation of the Wikileaks story, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Assange, the man who employed the Internet to mastermind the greatest information dump in history.

Adapted from the bestselling novel by David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas (15A) is an epic tale encompassing a number of interlinked stories, ranging from 1849 through to the modern day and on to a far future ‘after the Fall’ in which we find humanity reduced again to a Stone Age civilisation as it struggles to survive.

Ben Whishaw has hinted filming for the 24th James Bond movie will kick off early 2014.

Hugh Grant said it was fun to bring out a meaner side in his on-screen persona while playing villains in the film adaptation of Cloud Atlas.

From movies to music, film to food, our critics reveal their Hot 100 choices for the year ahead. Mark your diaries...

Halle Berry "cried so hard" when she realised she wasn't being fired from 'Cloud Atlas'.

SATURDAY

The winners of the Edinburgh International Film Festival awards were announced today as the 66th event drew to a close.

Des O’Driscoll rounds up the highlights of this coming week on TV

Meryl Streep’s portrayal of Margaret Thatcher and Michelle Williams’s role as Marilyn Monroe have put them head-to-head at this year’s Baftas.

PHYLLIDA Lloyd’s biopic of Margaret Thatcher, The Iron Lady (12A), opens with a doddery old Thatcher (Meryl Streep) making her uncertain way to the corner shop, there to be ignored as she attempts to buy a newspaper.

In 1975, grocer’s daughter Margaret Thatcher became the first woman to lead a major UK political party.

Meryl Streep has revealed she wanted to show the “human being” behind Margaret Thatcher’s fearsome reputation.