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Brian and Margaret will be screened on Channel 4 next year

Harriet Walter portrays Margaret Thatcher on Channel 4

Harriet Walter portrays the former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher in first-look images for a new Channel 4 drama.

Television • 01 Oct 24

What's on? 10 top TV and streaming tips for Monday

There's a couple of cracking documentaries in Sebastian Barry: Family Stories and The Gold: The Inside Story, psychological thriller The Catch, and the penultimate episode of Mastermind . . .

Television • 20 Mar 23

Neilí Conroy: "It was a very exciting time and all the locals were delighted."

Chips with everything: Revisit The Van

It was the Barrytown book and film that captured the madness of Italia 90 in Ireland but also touched on more serious themes of midlife crisis and unemployment.

Television • 31 May 21

Colm Meaney goes back to Barrytown on Sunday on RTÉ One at 9:30pm

It's Georgie Burgess time in Sunday's Back to Barrytown

Sunday's Back to Barrytown on RTÉ One celebrates The Snapper as stars Colm Meaney, Tina Kellegher and Ruth McCabe, writer Roddy Doyle and director Stephen Frears look back on an Irish comedy classic - and the enduring fascination with Georgie Burgess.

Television • 21 May 21

The late Alan Parker (standing at the wall) and the cast of The Commitments

Surprises in store in Back to Barrytown on RTÉ One

Fans of The Commitments, The Snapper and The Van have been promised plenty of surprises and the best of memories when the new documentary series Back to Barrytown begins on RTÉ One tonight at 9:30pm.

Television • 16 May 21

Chris O'Dowd and Rosamund Pike will co-star together in the series

Chris O'Dowd and Rosamund Pike for new mini-series

Chris O'Dowd is set to star in a new mini-series alongside Rosamund Pike, entitled State of the Union.

Television • 14 Jul 18

Stephen Frears talks Queen Victoria and Roddy Doyle

Stephen Frears made his name with movies such as Dangerous Liaisons and The Snapper. His new movie Victoria and Abdul sees Judy Dench reprising her role as Queen Victoria. Alan Corr meets the veteran director in London

Stephen Frears • 28 Sep 17

Eddie Izzard as Bertie in Victoria and Abdul

Izzard plays Bertie as a bounder in Queen Victoria film

Comedian and actor Eddie Izzard says that playing Queen Victoria's playboy son Bertie in Stephen Frears' latest movie meant he was the one character who could stand up to the all-powerful monarch.

eddie izzard • 12 Sep 17

Stephen Frears