3 hours ago Everyone Else Burns series two review – this brilliant doomsday show might just save the sitcom

The script is thick with jokes, Simon Bird and co are a joy to behold and scenes just zip along. This take on an ultra-conservative church is reinvigorating old-school comedyHow do you make the old-school sitcom – with its improbable plotlines, cartoonish characters and gimmicky setting – feel fresh and relevant in 21st-century Britain? Apparently, the answer is to shun the modern world altogether. Following the devout Lewis family, Everyone Else Burns pitches up in a Manchester-based evangelical church (and doomsday cult) where misogyny, homophobia and a shockingly dated sense of community are all alive and well. It’s deliberately unrelatable material presented in doggedly artificial, stupid hairdo-heavy style. As a contemporary comedy it shouldn’t work, but – by God – it really does.T...

Events

5 hours ago Stephen King novel called 'his best in a decade' is being turned into a TV series from acclaimed filmmaker

The horror master's 2022 novel was one of his most critically-acclaimed in years

Culture

5 hours ago ‘Drunk’ thief steals 100 shoes from sneaker store — but just the right

Store owner was alerted to the burglar and his accomplice by alarm company – but they were gone by the time he arrived

Events

5 hours ago Stephen King novel called 'his best in a decade' to be adapted into series by famous director

Horror fans will be thrilled this Halloween season as iconic author Stephen King is having another one of his books brought to screen

Culture

7 hours ago Blind Big Brother star Mikey Hughes saved by passengers after falling onto railway tracks as train approached

Mikey Hughes, who appeared on Big Brother in 2008, was left dazed after he fell onto a train track at a Glasgow station before two heroes came to the rescue and saved his life

Politics

8 hours ago A brand new German fire station that burned down did not have a fire alarm system

A new fire station in central Germany, which was destroyed in a fire, causing millions of euros in damage and destroyed equipment did not have a fire alarm system, local media is reporting

Events

8 hours ago Pictured: Woman who died in M6 horror crash after car 'travelled the wrong way down the motorway'

A GoFundMe appeal has been set up to help support the family of mother Jade McEnroe who is believed to have been among those killed in Tuesday's collision.

Events

9 hours ago M6 crash: Mum who died in horror smash with car 'going wrong way on motorway' pictured

Five people, including two children, died in the horror crash between a Skoda and Toyota on the major motorway as they passed near Tebay Services in Penrith, Cumbria on Tuesday

Events

9 hours ago First picture of Scots mum killed in horror M6 crash as cops probe 'car driving wrong way'

Jade McEnroe, 33, from Glasgow, was pronounced dead alongside a 42-year-old man and two boys aged 15 and seven on the motorway in Cumbria at around 4pm on Tuesday.

Events