Ed Power

Nobody would mistake this cheesy Christmas Special for Agatha Christie, but it's charming in its own GSCE drama kind of way

Television: We all know Christmas can be tough but this film lays it on with a trowel

Bob Stanley, Sarah Cracknell and Pete Wiggs return with album about chilly thoughts that race through the middle-aged mind when the lights dim

Mr Beast’s long-awaited Amazon Prime Video series is a deafening, joyless cash-dash

Ian Lynch, of Lankum, and the electronic producer George Brennan replace Christmas cheer with a cold howl of dread at the first of two sold-out shows

Ian Lynch and George Brennan offer a wonderful ghost-train ride through droning electronica, warped uilleann pipes and spirals of unfiltered noise

Chris Walley’s charismatic tearaway is still in prison on drug charges, leaving his best pal, the Knocknaheeny scamp Conor, flying solo

There are moments when this Christmas one-off, which tries to do too much at once, threatens to lose its footing like Santa slipping on a dodgy roof tile

3/5 There are moments when this Christmas one-off, which tries to do too much at once, threatens to lose its footing like Santa slipping on a dodgy roof tile

There are moments when this Christmas one-off, which tries to do too much at once, threatens to lose its footing like Santa slipping on a dodgy roof tile