Robert Webb, AJ Odudu, Tom Fletcher and Nina Wadia are among the celebrities getting their dancing shoes on for Strictly. But who will succeed … and who on earth is Tilly Ramsay?The 2021 Strictly Come Dancing line-up has been unveiled in full, which ca…
Deceit review – Rachel Nickell drama probes the ethics of entrapment
Niamh Algar puts in a phenomenal performance in this four-parter about the controversial undercover police operation which followed Nickell’s death, and events that beggar beliefIt is an indicator of almost everything that was wrong with the Rachel Nic…
Una Stubbs: a life in pictures
Una Stubbs – the actor whose long career took in Summer Holiday, Worzel Gummidge, Till Death Us Do Part and most recently Steven Moffat’s Sherlock – has died aged 84.Una Stubbs, actor in Sherlock and Till Death Us Do Part, dies aged 84Una Stubbs obitua…
Una Stubbs obituary
Sparkling actor whose long, eclectic career ranged from Shakespeare to SherlockUna Stubbs, actor in Sherlock and Till Death Us Do Part, dies aged 84Una Stubbs: a life in picturesBright and bubbly, tart and twinkly, Una Stubbs, who has died aged 84, was…
Una Stubbs, actor in Sherlock and Till Death Us Do Part, dies aged 84
TV and film actor, who also starred in Worzel Gummidge, ‘passed away quietly with her family around her’Una Stubbs obituaryUna Stubbs: a life in picturesUna Stubbs, the actor whose long career took in Summer Holiday, Worzel Gummidge, Till Death Us Do P…
TV, emphasis on the
Doctor Who wasn’t the only British TV series to start out educational and become its own thing. There’s a reason 1985’s Letters in Wonderland was later renamed Trouble with T-Bag. The following seasons (bar the last) followed a modified formula revolvi…
‘This story isn’t over’: TV drama explores the legacy of Stephen Lawrence’s murder
Steve Coogan, Sharlene Whyte and Frank Cottrell-Boyce on their depiction of how Doreen and Neville Lawrence pursued justice for their son’s racist killing with veteran detective Clive DriscollSharlene Whyte doesn’t just remember the racist murder of St…
Cancel culture killing comedy? What a joke
Chris Rock, Jennifer Saunders and more have argued that ‘wokeness’ is stifling comedy. But the idea of the joke police is actually nonsenseIs cancel culture destroying comedy? A lot of comedians seem to think so. John Cleese has fretted that “wokeness”…
Untold review – gripping doc series delivers an irresistible sports fix
Missing the Olympics? Netflix’s thrilling new show will fill the gap with its deep dives into astonishing moments from sports history, starting with the ‘Malice at the Palace’ basketball brawlFrom Naomi Osaka and Simone Biles to Tyrone Mings, there has…
‘We’re the weirdos – the joke’s on us’: on the set of the People Just Do Nothing movie
The Kurupt FM crew are back in a big screen, fish-out-of-water adventure set in Japan, complete with lots of eye-wateringly tight DayGlo LycraOn an Uxbridge film set, the cast of People Just Do Nothing are clad from neck to ankle in DayGlo Lycra. Frank…