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August 2024

Dominic West is a fabulous Faustus but this movie marathon plays the devil with Marlowe

Michael Billington
West joined a starry cast for script-in-hand readings of Christopher Marlowe’s complete works in Canterbury. The resulting films are frustrating

June 2024

The week in theatre: Viola’s Room; A View from the Bridge – review

A View from the Bridge review – Dominic West leads 50s drama into the present

April 2024

While we focus on Dominic West in a banned advert, the banks are short-changing us all

Hannah Dewhirst
The fuss over an outlawed commercial threatens to obscure the fact that the industry is reaping record profits for a poorer service, says Hannah Dewhirst, head of campaigns at Positive Money

March 2024

The Crown leads in 2024 Bafta TV nominations

The final series of Peter Morgan’s royal drama earns eight awards nominations, followed by Black Mirror on seven

February 2024

Nationwide’s Dominic West ad prompts complaint from rival

Watchdog receives complaint, reportedly from Santander UK, that advert paints misleading picture of bank branch closures

December 2023

2024 culture preview
The best theatre, dance and comedy tickets to book in 2024

TV review
A Very Brassic Christmas review – Imelda Staunton’s guest appearance is just terrific

November 2023

Dominic West, don’t be snooty about hit West End shows, they keep serious theatre alive

David Benedict
In dismissing such plays as the preserve of inattentive tourists, he ignores the fragile ecology of the industry

Dominic West becomes latest star to criticise soaring West End ticket prices

Actor who played Prince Charles in The Crown said non-London crowds ‘have a real hunger for a good night at the theatre’

The Crown actor says events leading to Diana’s death must have been ‘unbearable’

Elizabeth Debicki has spoken about filming car chase through Paris that led to Diana’s death for final season of royal drama

November 2022

From Tampongate to the Bashir bombshells: will King Charles III finally hit back at The Crown?

The Netflix hit is now plunging into inflammatory territory. Will the famously outspoken new monarch really simmer in silence? Does he have to – now Prince Harry is on the streamer’s payroll?

September 2022

The Crown series five to launch in November, Netflix confirms

Royal drama, which will star Imelda Staunton as the Queen and Jonathan Pryce, will start streaming on 9 November

May 2022

‘It’s a lawless place’: working in the real life Ten Percent

As English language remake of Call My Agent! launches, a former insider describes what life at a talent agency is really like

April 2022

Downton Abbey: A New Era review – cheerfully risible second helping of snobby melodrama

The second – and hopefully last – film spun off from Julian Fellowes’s successful TV series is as hammy, silly, and undeniably entertaining as ever

January 2022

Down the rabbit hole
What links Pam & Tommy to The Elephant Man?
From a 90s sex tape to Bradley Cooper, via Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, we hop down the rabbit hole

April 2021

Downton Abbey film sequel set for Christmas 2021 release

A followup to the 2019 film is currently in production, with Dominic West, Hugh Dancy and Laura Haddock joining returning cast members

December 2020

2021 culture preview
Superhero sitcoms, hardcore sci-fi and Belfast noir: the must-see TV of 2021
Succession and Line of Duty are back, there’s a sex worker musical, a new take on Lord of the Rings – and Kate Winslet returns to the small screen

December 2019

Ruth Wilson left The Affair because of 'too many sex scenes'

Multiple sources allege that issues with sex scenes and the ‘toxic environment’ of the hit TV show prompted the actor’s abrupt exit

September 2019

Observer TV reviews
The week in TV: Peaky Blinders; Sanditon; A Black and White Killing and more
Peaky Blinders makes a ruthless return, while Andrew Davies has his wicked way with Jane Austen

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