{"id":629378,"date":"2026-09-19T08:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T08:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/629378\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T08:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T08:16:11","slug":"from-shaun-the-sheep-to-the-split-up-your-complete-entertainment-guide-to-the-week-ahead-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/629378\/","title":{"rendered":"From Shaun the Sheep to The Split Up: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead | Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"

Going out: Cinema<\/p>\n

Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of\u00a0Mossy\u00a0Bottom
Out now
The beloved Wallace and Gromit spin-off\u00a0character returns to topline another film, with\u00a0a\u00a0Halloween-themed adventure involving the destruction of a pumpkin patch and a mysterious beast on the loose. Naturally, our hero turns to weird science to address matters.<\/p>\n

Bad Apples
Out now
A splendidly deranged combination of weird-wave European arthouse sensibility and the aesthetic of a classic British debut sees Saoirse Ronan as a teacher who improbably but deliciously takes justice into her own hands when one of the kids pushes her too far. There are also stunning child-actor performances from Eddie Waller and Nia Brown.<\/p>\n

Queen at Sea
Out now
An acting tour de force, Lance Hammer\u2019s hit from this year\u2019s Berlinale stars the heavyweight trio of Juliette Binoche, Tom Courtenay and Anna Calder-Marshall (the latter two reunited almost 60 years after they played Hamlet and Ophelia together on stage) in a nuanced exploration of dementia and sexual consent.<\/p>\n

Resident Evil
Out now
Director Zach Cregger has been on a\u00a0run of form with Barbarian (2022) followed by his Oscar-winning horror Weapons (2025). It may be unfair to expect him to bring quite the same level of flair to the eighth live-action Resident Evil film, but at least it\u2019s a standalone: no need to wade through endless lore before you go in. Catherine Bray<\/p>\n

Going out: GigsFlowered up \u2026 Patrick Wolf. Photograph: Emma Jones<\/p>\n

How the Light Gets In
Kenwood House, London, 19 & 20 September
The London leg of the world\u2019s largest (only?) philosophy and music festival returns with an intriguing lineup of brainy talkers and brainy singers. The latter group includes indie pop duo Prima Queen and the recently rejuvenated Patrick Wolf, who released his seventh album, Crying the Neck, last year. Michael Cragg<\/p>\n

Niall Horan
22 September to 16 November; tour starts Birmingham
Niall Horan and his trusty soft-rock bops arrive in the UK and Ireland for a tour in support of June\u2019s fourth album, Dinner Party. Expect a handful of new tunes to sit nicely alongside hits such as Slow Hands and the gently epic Heaven. MC<\/p>\n

Linda May Han Oh & Melissa Aldana
Wigmore Hall, London, 21 September
Bassist-composer Linda May Han Oh, a\u00a0subtle collaborator with jazz giants including Pat Metheny, shares an exquisitely lyrical and intuitive duo stage partnership here with Chilean saxophone star Melissa Aldana \u2013 on both an original and classic repertoire including timeless themes by Charlie Parker, Wayne Shorter, Billie Holiday and many more. John Fordham<\/p>\n

Bluebeard\u2019s Castle + Oedipus Rex
Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, 20 & 25 September, 2 October; touring to 28 November
Rebranded and determined to thrive, Welsh National Opera launches its new season with a double bill that pulls no punches, pairing powerful one-acters by Bart\u00f3k and Stravinsky. The casts feature soprano Christine Rice, tenor Peter Hoare and bass-baritone Nathan Berg. Joe Hill-Gibbins directs, with conductor Lidiya Yankovskaya in the pit. Flora Willson<\/p>\n

Going out: ArtA still from Amar Kanwar\u2019s Such a Morning, 2017. Photograph: Courtesy Amar Kanwar\/Marian Goodman Gallery<\/p>\n

Amar Kanwar
Serpentine North, London, 23 September to 3 January
Lyrical Indian artist Amar Kanwar is best known as a film-maker. This show functions as a site-specific installation of video work touching on themes of displacement, nationalism, violence and memory.<\/p>\n

Raqib Shaw
Compton Verney, Warwickshire, 19 September\u00a0to 21 February
Shaw\u2019s dense, super-intricate, mythologically influenced fusion of Indian motifs and classical western art references is instantly recognisable, but he hasn\u2019t had a major show of new work in the UK since 2017. Until now, that is, with this exhibition of atmospheric nocturnal paintings and tapestry.<\/p>\n

Jenkin Van Zyl
Somerset House Studios, London, 24\u00a0September to 29 November
One of the UK\u2019s most interesting young\u00a0artists returns with another disturbingly surreal immersive film installation, this time filled with holograms and inflatable cocoons, all\u00a0about celebrities and obsolete technologies.<\/p>\n

Rae Yen Song
Fact, Liverpool, to 14 February
The glowing pond at the centre of Rae\u00a0Yen Song\u2019s exhibition is filled with microscopic life and organic matter. It\u2019s\u00a0a living ecosystem that allows the\u00a0artist to explore woozy ideas of mythology, ancestry and spirituality. Eddy Frankel<\/p>\n

Going out: StageTour de force \u2026 Celya AB. Photograph: Sonja Horsman\/The Guardian<\/p>\n

Celya AB
Glasgow, 23 September; Newcastle upon Tyne, 24 September; Sheffield, 25 September; touring to 1\u00a0November
The cast may have received the bigger profile boost, but it was actually members of the SNL UK\u00a0writing team who dominated this year\u2019s Edinburgh fringe (including main award winner Chris Cantrill). French comedian Celya AB is among their number: a master joke-constructor whose latest show grapples with standup\u2019s darker side. Rachel Aroesti<\/p>\n

Birmingham Royal Ballet: Swan Lake
Birmingham Hippodrome, 23 September to 31 October
Sometimes you just want to see a classic. No need for boundary-breaking, head-scratching new inventions, just a tried-and-tested hit. That\u2019s where Swan Lake comes in. With a perfectly matched corps de ballet and Tchaikovsky\u2019s score, Birmingham Royal Ballet\u2019s production of Swan Lake ticks every box. Lyndsey\u00a0Winship<\/p>\n

Who\u2019s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
@sohoplace, London, 21 September to 19 December
The prospect of Gillian Anderson blasting her way through Edward Albee\u2019s boxing match of\u00a0a play \u2013 with husband and wife sparring brutally throughout \u2013 is quite something. She plays Martha opposite Billy Crudup\u2019s George in an intimate\/intense production that\u2019s staged in the round. Miriam\u00a0Gillinson<\/p>\n

Death of a Salesman
Liverpool Everyman, 19 September to 10 October
Arthur Miller\u2019s heartbreaking tragedy is reimagined by director Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu (For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide\u00a0\u2026). Cyril Nri stars\u00a0as Willy Loman: a\u00a0family man at breaking point, exhausted by his lifetime\u2019s pursuit of the American dream. MG<\/p>\n

skip past newsletter promotion<\/a><\/p>\n

Sign up to Inside Saturday<\/p>\n

The only way to get a look behind the scenes of the Saturday magazine. Sign up to get the inside story from our top writers as well as all the must-read articles and columns, delivered to your inbox every weekend.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Staying in: StreamingMum\u2019s the word \u2026 Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey in Brothers. Photograph: Ryan Green\/Apple<\/p>\n

Brothers
Apple TV, 23 September
In 2023, Matthew McConaughey revealed there was a chance he and his close friend Woody Harrelson could be siblings after his mother hinted at a\u00a0dalliance with the latter\u2019s father. Cue\u00a0this Curb-style comedy in which the actors play versions of themselves who begin to wonder if they\u2019re more than merely buddies.<\/p>\n

Youth
HBO Max, 21 September
Coupling covered footloose singledom, Catastrophe explored marriage and motherhood, and now Sharon Horgan returns to wring bitter laughs from midlife in this eight-part autofictional dramedy about parenting confused teenagers, caring for elderly parents and post-divorce dating.<\/p>\n

The Split Up
BBC iPlayer & BBC One, 20 September, 9pm
The Split, Abi Morgan\u2019s supremely soapy drama about a family of divorce lawyers, gets a glitzy Manchester-set spin-off starring Sanjeev Bhaskar as the head of a (different) family of divorce lawyers. Ritu Arya, Jane Horrocks, Lenny Henry and Mawaan Rizwan also appear.<\/p>\n

American Hostage
MGM+, 20 September
Certain true-crime stories can suddenly find themselves in vogue. Earlier this year Gus Van Sant\u2019s Dead Man\u2019s Wire dramatised the 1977 kidnap of a mortgage broker by Tony Kiritsis; now this series does the same with a cast that includes Jon Hamm, Giovanni Ribisi and William Jackson Harper. RA<\/p>\n

Staying in: GamesServe chilled \u2026 Silent Hill: Townfall. Photograph: Screen Burn<\/p>\n

Silent Hill: Townfall
PS5, PC; out 24 September
Atmospheric and creatively chilling, this is the latest in a peerlessly mind-bending series of horror games. Arriving on a mist-wreathed island town off the Scottish coast, you must reckon with what has happened to its inhabitants \u2013 and revisit your past mistakes.<\/p>\n

Rivage
PS5, Xbox, PC; out\u00a022 September
You are stuck in a time loop on a space station in this sci-fi puzzler. The station resets each time you retire to your bunk, but your memories do not. Put together the clues to figure out what\u00a0has happened to you and the crew. Keza\u00a0MacDonald<\/p>\n

Staying in: AlbumsThat\u2019ll be the day \u2026 Carly Rae Jepsen. Photograph: Vince Aung<\/p>\n

Carly Rae Jepsen \u2013 Day and Night
Out now
Having released companion albums to\u00a0go with her last five records, the Canadian pop star cuts to the chase this time around, releasing a 24-track double. As the title suggests, the album is split into two moods, with the bubbly, synth-driven Motivation a\u00a0late-night anthem.<\/p>\n

Beck \u2013 Ride Lonesome
Out now
The musical polymath returns to the more sombre setting of 2002\u2019s Sea Change and 2014\u2019s three Grammy-winning Morning Phase for his 15th album. Full of the rustic joys of autumn, its 12 songs are built around delicate acoustic figures and, on the lovely title track, elegant touches of slide guitar.<\/p>\n

Miley Cyrus \u2013 Bass Persuades
Out now
Following the commercially disappointing Something Beautiful, the Pablow the Blowfish hitmaker returns with a bigger sound, as showcased on the Lady Gaga-esque title track. Co-produced by Kid Harpoon (Harry Styles), and featuring US art-rockers Model\/Actriz, it should see her return to pop\u2019s upper echelons.<\/p>\n

Beabadoobee \u2013 Pylon
Out now
The Filipino-British singer-songwriter follows up 2024\u2019s chart-topping This Is How Tomorrow Moves with her fourth album of alt-rock heaters. On the pogoing Sun Has Set she\u2019s a coiled spring of emotion over lacerating guitars, while the softer Memories rides a gorgeous indie pop melody. MC<\/p>\n

Staying in: Brain food<\/p>\n

Vittles
Podcast<\/a>
Food publication Vittles\u2019 audio series delves deeper into its long-form features, providing insights into the changing world of British hospitality. Recent highlights include writer Stephen Buranyi on the economics of food influencers.<\/p>\n

Big Think Clips
YouTube<\/a>
Typically running between 20 and 30 minutes, this curated selection of video essays presents excerpts of longer lectures discussing everything from the phenomenon of \u201cself-loneliness\u201d to the ways our phones can stifle creativity.<\/p>\n

Caught in the Crackdown
PBS America, 25 September, 9.40pm
PBS\u2019s Frontline series investigates the ongoing violence perpetrated by the US\u2019s Immigration Customs and Enforcement agency (ICE). We see how community legal action and grassroots activism are fighting the force that embodies Donald Trump\u2019s anti-immigration rhetoric. Ammar Kalia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Going out: Cinema Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of\u00a0Mossy\u00a0BottomOut nowThe beloved Wallace and Gromit spin-off\u00a0character returns to topline…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[93,61,60,270],"class_list":["post-629378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}