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James Bond author shares his verdict on 007 frontrunner

James Bond author Charlie Higson has expressed doubts over current frontrunners to replace Daniel Craig as 007. Higson suggested bookies' favourite Jack Lowden lacks the physicality for convincing hand-to-hand combat, comparing him to Tom Hiddleston . The writer also commented that actor Jacob Elordi is too tall for the role,…

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James Bond author reveals why 007 frontrunner Jack Lowden is ‘not a convincing’ choice

He said that another contender was ‘too tall’ for the role

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James Bond can't have a dog

Charlie Higson, who has written five Young Bond adventure stories, has revealed James Bond is not allowed a pet dog.

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Le Carré with a cocktail, not a cuppa: the glamour and escapism of The Night Manager

The second series of the Tom Hiddleston-fronted drama is first le Carré adaptation not based on author’s own work

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An Evening With The Fast Show at the Palladium review: a glorious, waist-deep nostalgia wallow

4/5 All the greats popped up during this lengthy gig celebrating 31 years since the show first aired

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What does the Amazon MGM Studios deal mean for the James Bond series?

Amazon acquired creative control of the film series on Thursday.

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‘We wrote “Suit you, sir!” for Harry Enfield – he didn’t like it’: an oral history of The Fast Show

Thirty years after it first aired, the stars of the hit BBC sketch show tell all – from wowing Johnny Depp to inter-office tension that left one of the cast in tears

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An Evening With The Fast Show review – chummy chat and catchphrase classics

Ted and Ralph, the ‘Suit you!’ tailors and the rest of the gang’s most fondly remembered characters reconvene for a 30th-anniversary greatest hits sketch show, interspersed with the cast’s reminiscences about their creation

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Nice! Cast of The Fast Show to reunite for a UK stage tour

The comedy series’ originators Charlie Higson and Paul Whitehouse will lead a 30th anniversary live show due to begin in March

The Guardian - UK

Evil Genius With Russell Kane review – a deeply bewildering and disturbing piece of TV

Ill-informed comedians debate whether Churchill was a good man, then bluff their way through talk of atrocities with nary a gag being cracked. Who thought this was a good idea?

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TV tonight: Russell Kane’s hit podcast Evil Genius comes to our screens

The comedian asks whether history’s most polarising figures were evil or genius. Plus, Grime Kids continues. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Withnail and I: How a Beatle-funded comedy about alcoholic actors became a cult classic

The boozy British comedy classic was produced by Beatle George Harrison and made stars out of Richard E Grant and Paul McGann, but its initial cinema release went almost unnoticed. Nick Duerden looks at the film’s chequered road to cult status

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OPINION - This sinister censorship agenda in the publishing world should trouble us all

Hard on the heels of the news that Ian Fleming’s publishers have “edited” its new edition of the James Bond novels to coincide with the 70th anniversary of Casino Royale (a cracker) to omit some non-current references to race, there arrives a new version of James Bond. On His Majesty’s…

Evening Standard

Jeremy Corbyn to star in rapper Adam Deacon’s film Sumotherhood

‘Allow it, wasteman’

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‘Times change’: what authors think about rewriting older books

Jacqueline Wilson is latest writer to wade into debate over changing dated and offensive language

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James Bond author says if an actor is tipped to be next 007, ‘you know they’ve been rejected’

‘Daniel Craig, nobody had any idea at all that he might be Bond,’ Charlie Higson said

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James Bond author says if an actor is tipped to be next 007, ‘you know they’ve been rejected’

‘Daniel Craig, nobody had any idea at all that he might be Bond,’ Charlie Higson said

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If someone is tipped to be next James Bond, ‘you know they’ve been rejected’

Charlie Higson has released a new James Bond story to celebrate the King’s coronation.

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James Bond Author Charlie Higson Blasts No Time To Die And Names Another Spy Franchise As 'The Best Bond Films Now'

James Bond author Charlie Higson has a specific bone to pick with No Time To Die, while praising another spy franchise as the better 007.

Woman & Home

King Charles' new coronation tribute includes a major pop culture icon – but there’s a sad connection to the late Queen

James Bond is back – and it’s all to save King Charles’ coronation

Wales Online

New James Bond story commissioned to celebrate the king’s coronation

The new 007 story is set to bring Bond into the present day

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New James Bond story commissioned to celebrate the King’s coronation

On His Majesty’s Secret Service will be published in May.

The Guardian - UK

Sensitivity readers: what publishing’s most polarising role is really about

The Roald Dahl alterations thrust sensitivity readers to the foreground, but the profession is nothing new

The Guardian - UK

Charlie Higson: ‘I hope to be so unwound I can just lie on the sofa’

The comedian and author on gorging on granola, long lie-ins, Zen housework and feeling totally relaxed

Evening Standard

Ex-Downing Street aide Cleo Watson plans another ‘bonkbuster’ political novel

Ex-Prime minister Boris Johnson’s former aide Cleo Watson is planning a second novel about political life, we hear.

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