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Enjoy a huge range of content from the Eurovision Song Contest across BBC TV, Radio, BBC iPlayer, BBC Sounds and Online

The upcoming one-off, which touts both animation and live-action elements, takes place during Eurovision 2989, with both alien and human contestants competing for a prize that may save Earth from extinction.

BBC Three has ordered 'Galaxy Dance', its first Animation since 'Monkey Dust' from Harry Thompson and Shaun Pye.

Broadcast Ireland: Breaking news from the Irish television broadcast industry

Stars from the silver screen will walk the red carpet in Scotland’s largest city when the Glasgow Film Festival (GFF) gets underway.

Just around the corner is a cinematic treat for San Francisco Bay area film fans -- the Mostly British Film Festival returns.  Beginning February 15th,

The Irish actor, who plays Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett in ‘Dance First,’ discusses the perils of fame

The trailer for Dance First, a new film starring Gabriel Byrne as writer Samuel Beckett, shows rows of men and women in evening dress, seated. The occasion is the 1969 awarding of the Nobel Prize. On stage, a man announces: “The prize for literature is hereby awarded to Samuel Beckett.”

A phantom engagement of sorts

Byrne is a good fit as the conflicted writer, but James Marsh’s crisp biographical film feels at odds with the passion of Beckett’s work