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  1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Ed Power

    Celebrity Traitors on BBC One: An ego-filled riot of characters come roaring out of the traps (opens the original)

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    The tone for the latest season of Celebrity Traitors (BBC One, Thursday, 8pm) is set early on as Claudia Winkleman springs, fully formed, from a casket and adjusts her fringe. “I was in a church with Ross Kemp and Jerry Hall and then Claudia Winkleman climbed out of a coffin,” gasps a suitably gobsmacked Joe Lycett – one of 21 famous types assembled for another game of back-stabbing in the Scottish Highlands. We need a good Celeb Traitors because it had started to feel that the air was goi

  2. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Ed Power

    East of Eden on Netflix: Florence Pugh’s powerful turn threatens to overwhelm this Steinbeck classic (opens the original)

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    John Steinbeck’s East of Eden gave us one of 20th-century literature’s great villains: the manipulative, cruel and sociopathic Cathy Ames. But with A-lister Florence Pugh cast as Cathy, this sumptuous adaptation (Netflix, from Thursday) was always going to deliver a more sympathetic portrait of the character. And so it goes, more or less, in a miniseries that sets out to paint Cathy as equal parts victim and nemesis. Writer and co-showrunner Zoe Kazan oversees this new Eden, and the project

  3. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Ed Power

    Blue Lights on BBC One: An unfortunate and cartoonish portrayal of racism in Ireland (opens the original)

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    Good police work is all about timing, but with the spectre of the Drumcree Orange Parade marching out of history and back on to the front pages, it’s arguable that detective drama Blue Lights (BBC One, Tuesday) has picked precisely the wrong moment to return. With the shadow of the past creeping down Garvaghy Road, who wants to spend 60 minutes cosying up to a grim tale of sectarian strife in modern Belfast? But for those who can bear it, Blue Lights’ flaws go beyond reappearing at an awkwar

  4. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · Ed Power

    Westside Cowboy at Whelan’s review: Like watching tomorrow’s superstars grow up before your eyes (opens the original)

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    This is just Westside Cowboy’s second Irish show, but an entry-level venue such as Whelan’s – capacity 450 – already feels far too small for a band who seem to be getting bigger by the week. The storied club is wedged to the rafters as the Manchester four-piece amble onstage like gangling teenagers at the start of a show that brims with naivety and charm. Since they formed in 2023, after meeting at university, the band have had a rapid ascent, winning Glastonbury’s emerging-talent comp

  5. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · Ed Power

    Taylor Swift’s Showgirl encore: Three superb new songs and a Colin Farrell cameo (opens the original)

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    The Taylor Swift backlash arrived with a vengeance last year when the singer followed up her blockbuster Eras tour with her Life of a Showgirl album. The Irish Times was one of the few not to hate the LP, and if its five-star rating was, with hindsight, a tad too feverishly positive, the record was still a lot better the near-universal thumbs-down suggested. Now Swift has returned with this expanded Encore edition, featuring four new tracks written with the producers Shellback and Max Martin. Th

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