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Can the ‘feel-good’ movie exist in 2025? ‘The Ballad of Wallis Island' proves maybe it can

By the time a film arrives on movie screens, its makers often strive to find ways to articulate how relevant it is, how it speaks to now

The Independent UK

The Ballad of Wallis Island: release date, reviews, trailer, cast and everything we know about the Carey Mulligan movie

Carey Mulligan, Tom Basden and Tim Key star in The Ballad of Wallis Island. Here’s everything you need to know about the indie comedy.

WhatToWatch

Mandy season 3 full guide: how to watch, cast, episode guide, and everything you need to know

Mandy season 3 saw the Diane Morgan comedy series returning for more misadventures as Mandy turns her hand to more careers... and trouble arises.

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Tim Key: ‘I like writing in the pub, but then the poems tend to be about the pub’

The comedian on his strangest fan encounter, preshow rituals and his new film with Tom Basden and Carey Mulligan

The Guardian - UK

The week in TV: Trigger Point; Putin vs the West: At War; Mr & Mrs Smith; Here We Go – review

Vicky McClure’s bomb disposal expert is back with a bang; assorted British PMs supply the low notes as world leaders reflect on war in Ukraine; and Donald Glover and Maya Erskine outdo Pitt and Jolie in a star-studded remake

The Guardian - UK

‘I’d hate to act in the nude’: Tom Basden on risque writing, sitcom gold and casting Carey Mulligan

His BBC One series Here We Go has single-handedly revived the family sitcom genre, and Hollywood stars love his short films. Might he be one of Britain’s most versatile comedy writers?

The Guardian - UK

From The Three Musketeers to Cher: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Dumas’s trio bring more mustachioed swashbucklery to cinemas, and the pop matriarch goes festive with an album chock-full of Christmas cheer

The Guardian - UK

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12 reasons why we can’t wait for Here We Go to return - and how you can watch the first series of this highly-acclaimed family drama

Here We Go was one of the best BBC comedy offerings of 2022. Series two is currently filming, and here's every reason you should tune in.

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The new Accidental Death of an Anarchist is a riot of laughs – but does it make us angry enough?

As accusations of police corruption are once again in the news, Dario Fo and Franca Rame’s Accidental Death of an Anarchist arrives in the West End

The Guardian - UK

Accidental Death of an Anarchist at Theatre Royal Haymarket review: uproarious farce takes aim at the Met

The supporting cast is great but this is Daniel Rigby’s show – he doesn’t just perform the exquisite script, he blows every line up

Evening Standard

Daniel Rigby: ‘Victoria Wood and I would watch MasterChef and heckle Gregg Wallace’

The ‘Flowers’ and ‘Eric and Ernie’ actor tells Ellie Harrison about sending up the police in the revival of ‘Accidental Death of an Anarchist’, his bizarre run-in with the authorities, and his memories of living with the late comedy legend Victoria Wood

The Independent UK

The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up to Cancer: Who is Tim Key?

Tim Key will be joining AJ Odudu, Gemma Collins and Jessica Hynes on The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up to Cancer on Channel 4

Wales Online

‘Don’t expect a blaze of glory’: The story of ITV’s ‘Plebs’ and how it ends

After five series, the ancient Roman comedy is finally coming to an end with a feature-length special. Sean Russell went on set with co-creator Sam Leifer to reflect on what it was that made the show unique

The Independent UK

Accidental Death of an Anarchist review – a riotous satirical farce brought bang up to date

Tom Basden’s new adaptation of the Italian classic brings in dodgy selfies, WhatsApp groups and the lord chief justice in a furious but funny broadside against police malpractice

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The Independent UK

Here We Go: The unassuming, unadventurous – but brilliant – comedy everyone should be watching

Light catastrophe is something that British sitcoms have always done well, from ‘Peep Show’ to ‘Outnumbered’. BBC’s new series ‘Here We Go’, writes Nick Hilton, is definitely the latest iteration of this formula: a sitcom of almost claustrophobic normalness

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: Alison Steadman is an interfering grandma in new BBC sitcom

Katherine Parkinson also navigates life’s everyday mundanities in Here We Go. Plus: Not Going Out heads to the woods in search of drugs. Here’s what to watch this evening

Daily Mirror

Gavin and Stacey's Alison Steadman says being a real-life gran is her best role yet

Gavin and Stacey star Alison Steadman is back on television this week starring as a gran in the new BBC comedy Here We Got which follows the highs and lows of the Jessop family

Bristol Post

When does BBC One comedy Here We Go start and what is the series about?

The new BBC comedy series is written by actor Tom Basden

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Daily Mirror

Netflix series Man vs Bee: First look at Rowan Atkinson’s epic TV return

Rowan Atkinson will return to TV screens this summer in the Netflix comedy Man vs Bee, which will see the Mr Bean star battling a pesky bee while housesitting a luxurious mansion

Bristol Post

Netflix's The Last Bus: The rising star cast who have been in everything from Game of Thrones to KFC adverts

The Last Bus arrives on Netflix on Friday, April 1, and features a cast of both established and rising stars

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