You’ll be in thrall to Mark Gatiss’s smart, snappy and utterly hammy ghost story within seconds. What a creepy Christmas gift to us allOh, the warm, expansive joy to be had from a chilly, compact ghost story! And A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Mezzot…
The TV quiz of the year: from It’s a Sin to Squid Game
How’s your 2021 TV knowledge? Test how much love you’ve been giving your favourite shows with our brain-tickling end-of-year quiz. Continue reading…
Stephen Mangan: ‘My strangest Christmas present? An aubergine’
The actor, who is playing Scrooge on stage, is a fan of Christmas games – and quizzes in particular. But there’s one question he can’t answer: why are Christmas cracker jokes so bad? Stephen Mangan, one of the most disarmingly likable comic actors arou…
Paul Rudd Saturday Night Live to film without audience amid Omicron surge
People’s Sexiest Man Alive to host show for fifth timeNBC cites ‘abundance of caution’ behind Covid moveThe actor Paul Rudd, People’s Sexiest Man Alive of 2021, was set to be inducted into the vaunted Five-Timers Club on Saturday Night Live but the sur…
Tell us: what are your thoughts on the Sex and the City spin off?
Sex and the City’s sequel And Just Like That will revisit the characters 20 years after they left our screensAfter a 20-year hiatus, Sex and the City will return on 9 December with the sequel And Just Like That. Most of the main cast will return for th…
Garfield’s Gonna Kick Monday’s Ass In The Nickelodeon Fighting Game
Internet sensation Garfield is the first post-release character being added to Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl, the devs behind the impressive Smash-style platform fighter announced today.Read more…
Chucky review – the murderous doll is back (and may be behind you right now)
Is anyone safe from the knife-wielding puppet in this rebooted 80s horror classic? Certainly not people who shop at New Jersey yard salesMy editor was not born when Child’s Play came out in 1988 and so looked at me blankly when I begged and pleaded wit…
Kenny G: ‘Criticism didn’t affect me then, and it doesn’t affect me now’
In the HBO documentary Listening to Kenny G, the unusual appeal of the much-maligned ‘smooth jazz’ musician is put under the spotlightPenny Lane, who has directed a new music documentary centered on Kenny G, has no interest in music documentaries and w…
David Tennant makes a dashing Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days preview
It’s the latest adaptation of Jules Verne’s classic 1873 adventure novel
Death of England: Face to Face review – state of the nation drama is a fast, furious triumph
This amalgamation of two National Theatre monologues makes for an unflinching, highly impressive examination of race, identity and toxic masculinityDeath of England began life in 2014 as a short drama commissioned by London’s Royal Court theatre and th…