Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, the king of the MDF makeover, returns to our screens with Anna Richardson to create more spray-painted, gold-leafed visions from hellI remember the time Linda Barker put up shelves to house a woman’s beloved teapot collection a…
Sean Lock obituary
Comedian known for his deadpan observational humour and as a longstanding team captain on TV’s 8 Out of 10 CatsSean Lock, who has died of cancer aged 58, was a bespectacled, besuited and well-groomed standup comedian who projected a constant air of puz…
Austin Mitchell obituary
Maverick Eurosceptic Labour MP who fought hard for the fishing industry in his Great Grimsby constituencyThe Labour politician Austin Mitchell got his timing wrong. Had he entered the Commons 10 years before he did, he might have knuckled down and beco…
Stephen Colbert on Afghanistan: ‘They’re saying they were the Taliban, but now they’re the Tali-buddies’
Late-night hosts discuss Afghanistan, Biden’s new booster shot guidance and New York’s indoor vaccine requirementOn Tuesday’s Late Show, Stephen Colbert continued to discuss the fall of Kabul as American troops withdrew after 20 years in Afghanistan. I…
Harry Hill on Sean Lock: ‘The comedian’s comedian who took us all by surprise’
Sean’s crazily funny gags reminded me why I got into comedy – his dry humour was always balanced with his wide-eyed wonder at the world• Comedian Sean Lock dies aged 58Sean was maybe a year ahead of me on the London comedy club scene and already had a …
Comedian Sean Lock dies aged 58
Bill Bailey, Lee Mack, Harry Hill and Diane Morgan are among the fellow comics who have paid tribute to Lock, ‘an absolute genius’, who died at home from cancer, surrounded by family• Harry Hill on Sean Lock – tributeSean Lock – a life in picturesTribu…
Car crash TV: why Simon Cowell’s take on Top Gear is the last thing we need
With The X Factor now consigned to the dustbin of television history, Cowell is said to be releasing his inner Jeremy Clarkson with a motoring show. Haven’t we suffered enough? Simon Cowell and Jeremy Clarkson. Sneery Si and shouty Jezza. Together they…
Ladhood series two review – Liam Williams muddles through masculinity
The comic’s painfully funny, semi-autobiographial sitcom returns for a second series, balancing crass banter with intelligent insights into emotional inadequacyTeenage boys don’t know what they are doing. They let their friends down and their romantic …
Evening Primrose
Stephen Sondheim is mostly known as a musical theater composer, but he did do one project for television — Evening Primrose [Wikipedia]. A musical Twilight Zone-is story in which Norman Bates falls in love with Liesl Von Trapp while living in a depart…
Modesty pouches and masturbation montages: the making of Sex Education
The rude, raucous and revolutionary comedy is back for another term. The stars and creators reveal how it became one of Netflix’s biggest British hitsSex Education is back with a bang. Several, in fact. The Netflix hit’s third series starts with an epi…