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Hugh Bonneville to reprise award-nominated comedy role for 2026 World Cup series

Bonneville previously played the character in the mockumentary series ‘W1A’ and ‘Twenty Twelve’

The Independent UK

The week in theatre: Ballet Shoes; The Importance of Being Earnest; The Devil Wears Prada; The Massive Tragedy of Madame Bovary – review

At the National, Noel Streatfeild’s classic flies while Oscar Wilde’s wit is gorgeously unleashed. Elsewhere, a slavishly faithful take on The Devil Wears Prada and a bijou Flaubert caper

The Guardian - UK

Hugh Bonneville's W1A set to take on football world in new spin off

A W1A star has claimed that screenwriter John Morton is working on a new follow-up to his hilarious mockumentary series. Here's what we know...

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TV tonight: Lenny Henry bows out after nearly 40 years of Comic Relief

Funny for Money also stars David Tennant, Davina McCall, Alan Partridge – and the cast of W1A. Plus: Fantasy Football League. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Sky defends slavery inheritance show from accusations of tone-deafness

Channel says Forty Acres, comedy drama about slavery inheritance from W1A team, is not comedy about slavery

The Guardian - UK

Who is in the cast of Channel 4’s partygate drama?

The show will look at what happened behind the doors of 10 Downing Street

Evening Standard

Cast revealed for Channel 4 dramatisation of partygate

W1A star Ophelia Lovibond and The Chronicles Of Narnia actress Georgie Henley will play fictional special advisers while Jon Culshaw will voice…

The National (Scotland)

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Ten Percent: UK’s answer to French sitcom Call My Agent! cancelled after one season

‘Ten Percent’, a remake from the creator of ‘W1A’, will not return for a second run

The Independent UK

Jason Watkins' biggest TV roles, his wife and what happened to their daughter

Jason Watkins and Clara Francis lost their two-year-old daughter Maude from sepsis in 2011 - now they've made a documentary to help other families with grief, called Jason & Clara: In Memory of Maudie.

Wales Online

BBC's Gary Lineker decision mocked as Hugh Bonneville and Jason Watkins revive W1A roles

Gary Lineker will be off air 'until an agreement is reached on his future use of social media' and as the fall out continues, Hugh Bonneville and Jason Watkins have hilariously ridiculed the BBC

Daily Mirror

Hugh Bonneville and Jason Watkins act out satire of BBC’s Gary Lineker response

The actors jokingly returned to their roles from W1A, a mockumentary about the management of the BBC, to decided who should present Match Of The Day.

The Independent UK

Sarah Parish: ‘I do get cast as a lot of killers, a lot of tough women’

The actor from Industry, W1A and Mistresses on her return to the theatre, her habit of breaking bones and seeing her husband as Prince Andrew

The Guardian - UK

‘Maybe it’s time to do a musical’: actor Monica Dolan on playing extreme characters

Monica Dolan has always been drawn to challenging roles, from killer Rose West to fraudster Anne Darwin. Now, more in demand than ever, she reveals why she relishes every part she tackles

The Guardian - UK

Ten out of ten for awkwardness: why we can’t get enough of ‘fremdschämen’

Brilliant new dramedy Ten Percent, which follows the fates of a team of celebrity agents, has been brought to the screen by the award-winning writer-director behind comedy W1A, and highlights a particularly British form of embarrassment. Here we explore the phenomenon of fremdschämen and why it’s such a cornerstone of…

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Ten Percent review: British Call My Agent! is comme-ci, comme-ça

London is luvvie central - so why is the British remake so bumbling and stuffy?

Daily Mirror

Where have you seen Netflix's Bridgerton cast before - Waterloo Road to Line Of Duty

Bridgerton is back for a second season with new cast members to keep up with. One of the streaming site's most popular ever shows, the Netflix stars have been in a range of TV shows and films from Casualty to Doctor Who

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