Our Arts Editor selects his highlights of the year...

Judy Hegarty Lovett of Gare St Lazare tells Marjorie Brennan about the Corkonian company’s journey into the musical mind of Samuel Beckett.

Ahead of Gare St Lazare Ireland’s world premiere performance of Samuel Beckett’s How It Is in Cork, director Judy Hegarty Lovett addresses the audience, stressing that the Irish writer's original text was a novel, not a play, writes Marjorie Brennan.

The final series of the cross-channel drama can’t escape the shadow of Brexit, writes Gemma Dunn.

Game of Thrones actor Stephen Dillane said the fantasy show is too “brutal” and “hardcore” to watch.

The returning Game of Thrones exuded cinematic sweep and a wide-screen grandeur so it was fitting Sky had chosen to hold a preview of the forthcoming fifth season — attended by cast members Liam Cunningham and Michael McElhatton — at Dublin’s Irish Film Institute.

Britain’s Stephen Dillane and the Netherlands’ Bianca Krijgsman received the top acting prizes at the 42nd International Emmy Awards.

Tune into TV3 at 10pm tonight to watch The Pipe. The story of a rural community in Co Mayo in Ireland that has been battling the oil giant Shell over their plans to put a raw gas pipeline through the community.

Highlights include RTÉ documentaries on taxi passengers and nightshift workers.

Gemma Arterton has signed on to appear in classic play ‘The Master Builder’.

The film of the week is Podeswa’s powerful adaptation of Anne Michael’s poetically lyrical novel about loss and guilt set around young Jakob (Kay) who is hidden from the invading Germans by his Polish parents only to watch as they and his beloved sister are taken away.

Comedy duo French and Saunders promised to continue working together after collecting their Academy Fellowship award at the television Baftas.

Jonathan Ross was today nominated for a Bafta television award for his controversial chat show.

A murder story based on the scandal that overwhelmed socialite Barbara Baekeland (Moore) and her troubled son (Redmayne) … a fraught relationship that involved money, drugs, incest and death in the early l970s.

Once again we are gathered around the Round Table for another telling of the story - or legend, since there is one school of thought which insists the Good King,

The Magdalene Sisters, the film which depicted life in the laundries run by the Magdalene nuns, has earned four nominations in this year’s London Film Critics’ Circle Awards.

If you must re-make one of cinema's great classics - in this case the delicious Sharade, which was directed by Stanley Donen and starred the brilliant Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant - why make such a dismal hash of it?