George Clooney directs and stars in a new TV take on Catch-22, writes Gemma Dunn

Twenty years ago, The Sopranos and The West Wing slipped on to our screens. Television would never be the same again, writes Ed Power.

THE diary: Before there was the social media void to shout into, you kept your thoughts to yourself and to a few others close by.

Declan Burke takes a look at the latest films to hit the big screen

Guests who have previously attended include Julie Christie, Michael Fassbender, Martin Sheen and Stephen Fry.

POOR old George Clooney in The Descendants not only has his beloved wife in a coma but he also has to contend with the discovery that she had been having an affair. 

Here's our TV recommendations for tonight.

Cara O’Sullivan is from the Lough area of Cork, and sings at Live at St Luke’s on Sunday. She will perform Richard Strauss and Samuel Barber songs in the first half, and operatic arias in the second half, including Puccini’s ‘One fine Day’ from Madame Butterfly.

Adam Sandler faces off against the all new Men from UNCLE in cinemas this week - who will emerge triumphant? Probably Donkey Kong...

Check out our guide to the best of today's TV.

Hollywood star Martin Sheen has told how he felt “powerless” to help his troubled son Charlie during his public meltdown.

Your spoiler free guide to tonight's TV.

Gerald Kean mentors golfer Brian Casey in the first episode of The Speech on RTÉ One tomorrow.

Graham Dwyer was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Elaine O’Hara, leaders of seveal EU nations are to meet to discuss the emigrant crisis in the Mediterranean, ACDC drummer Phil Rudd could face up to 7 years in prison after pleading guilty to threatening to kill and possession of drugs and Happy Birthday Father Ted . These are some of the latest and most read news stories on irishexaminer.com this morning.

Is there nothing that can’t be made better by adding Martin Sheen? And by the looks of it, the end of the world just got a lot brighter.

A few weeks ago I got talking to a manager of a county football team. His team had made good progress playing a fine attacking style of football but in recent games had come unstuck against extreme massed defences, writes Kieran Shannon.

Oh Josh, come back to us. We miss you.

A gouda idea. Feta than last year.

On the 30th anniversary of the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal, Louise Roseingrave talks to the makers of a new film about that fateful day

WATCHED the first episode of The West Wing, for the first time in years, the other night. I’d forgotten how good it was: a dense, fast-paced political drama, packed with dialogue and incident. You knew you were watching something good.

ON FRIDAY evenings when I arrive home, tired, often hungry and dying to see the family after a week in London, an array of my compatriots line up to greet me. Some are well known and some are not known at all.

The death of Mickey Rooney (Joe Yule), made Declan Burke consider the monikers that just had to be changed

ACTOR Aidan Gillen played John Boy in the RTÉ crime series, Love/Hate, and will be back on our screens as Charlie Haughey, in Charlie, later this year. Gillen has selected seven of his favourite films for showings at Triskel Christchurch from Jan 17-20.

ACTRESS Lake Bell is on a mission to eradicate a pandemic ‘disease’: ‘sexy-baby’ voice.

Cliff Robertson, PT 109, 1963.

Rooney Mara has signed up to star in 'Trash'.

Jennifer Lopez will star in Chilean miner drama 'The 33'.

Charlie Sheen reportedly wants Selma Blair to be fired from 'Anger Management'.

Antonio Banderas will star in a movie as one of the 33 Chilean miners trapped deep underground for more than two months in 2010, and the charismatic survivor he’s playing couldn’t be happier.

SATURDAY

This week's pick of what's on the box.

Kirsten Dunst is pleased "sweetheart" Shailene Woodley has been cast in 'The Amazing Spider-Man 2'.

HE was known as “Pio”.

President Barack Obama was counting on former president Bill Clinton and Bruce Springsteen, top surrogates for his campaign, to carry his message.

AMY Huberman is glowing.

SATURDAY

Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.

Every great story has a beginning.

Charlie Sheen will play the US President in 'Machete Kills'.

MANNY, Ellie, Diego and Sid are hauled out of the deep freeze for another shaggy mammoth tale in Ice Age 4: Continental Drift (PG).

NOT every father and son have Marlon Brando on hand to break up their fights.

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