1 week ago The Chair Company review – an office rage comedy packed with massive, stupid laughs

Tim Robinson is hilarious as a man hellbent on taking down a negligent chair manufacturer in this cringe caper full of roaringly good slapstickMeet Ron Trosper, a faithful office grunt in small town Ohio. Ron works for a company that builds shopping malls, and their latest one is the first for which Ron has been made project lead, despite some of his superiors’ misgivings. Today is his big day. He’s giving a speech at the launch!Ron is the creation of Tim Robinson, the former Saturday Night Live writer/performer who reinvented the American sketch show in 2019 with I Think You Should Leave. In a new half-hour, eight-episode series that starts as a workplace comedy before sprawling into mystery/thriller territory, his alter ego is a stock Robinson character, a variation on the textbook comic protagonist who has to bear the burden of being the only sane man in every room. Ron is genuinely beset by absurdity, misfortune and other people’s idiocy and selfishness, but always manages to re...

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2 w. ago 'Perfect' new BBC drama inspired by bestselling book has fans 'bingeing every episode'

BBC have released their latest drama staring Aimee Lou Wood and Owen Cooper and viewers have branded it 'brilliant' and 'heartwarming' - making it the perfect series to binge watch this weekend

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2 w. ago Film Club review – Aimee Lou Wood’s romcom has sweetness and charisma but is sorely lacking in laughs

‘White Lotus’ star Wood co-wrote the show, about an agoraphobe cinephile, with fellow actor Ralph Davis

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2 w. ago Adolescence star Owen Cooper's 'magic' performance in new BBC comedy

Film Club is a new romantic comedy series starring Aimee Lou Wood and Suranne Jones, as well as young star Owen Cooper

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2 w. ago Adolescence star Owen Cooper 'absolutely magic' in new BBC comedy

Owen Cooper is among the cast of new BBC comedy also starring Aimee Lou Wood and Suranne Jones

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2 w. ago ‘We wanted nerds to fall in love’: Aimee Lou Wood and Nabhaan Rizwan on their new romcom Film Club

The ‘Sex Education and ‘White Lotus’ star has co-written a BBC series that’s warm, funny and full of love. Lydia Spencer-Elliott hears from the cast and creatives about how it was brought to the screen

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3 w. ago Film Club: Aimee Lou Wood’s fantastical romcom is part Mike Leigh, part cosy family sitcom

The White Lotus star is an agoraphobic movie lover who puts on elaborate immersive screenings in her garage in this sweet tale of longing, anxiety and family bickering. But is it believable?I’m not sure where Aimee Lou Wood – the Stockport-born star of Sex Education and The White Lotus – got the idea for Film Club (Tuesday 7 October, 10pm, BBC Three), the new drama she has created with fellow actor Ralph Davis, but I’d be amazed if it’s drawn from her own life. Not because the fearlessly outspoken global celebrity plays a woman too scared to set foot outside her mum’s house in Manchester following a nervous breakdown, her only respite being a weekly movie night with uni friends in the garage. No. It’s the garage itself.Each week, unemployed, agoraphobic Evie somehow finds the wherewithal to transform her garage into a spectacular film set. For a screening of Alien, this one-woman Secret Cinema wallpapers it with tinfoil and hazard tape and fills it with smoke, strip lights...

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3 w. ago Aimee Lou Wood wants to see 'nerds fall in love' in her new BBC show

The six-part BBC series follows an agoraphobic film enthusiast Evie, played by Wood, who transforms her mother's garage into a weekly cinema for herself and her best friend Noa, portrayed by Nabhaan Rizwan.

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3 w. ago Aimee Lou Wood says she doesn’t regret calling out ‘mean’ SNL sketch

Sketch had comedian Sarah Sherman wear fake teeth in imitation of ‘The White Lotus’ actor’s facial feature and make a joke about not knowing meaning of ‘fluoride’

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3 w. ago Aimee Lou Wood says calling out SNL ‘mean’ skit was like standing up to bullies

The Sex Education actor opened up about why she criticised Saturday Night Live’s parody of her

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3 w. ago Aimee Lou Wood says she doesn’t regret calling out ‘mean’ Saturday Night Live sketch

Sketch had comedian Sarah Sherman wear fake teeth in imitation of ‘The White Lotus’ actor’s facial feature and make a joke about not knowing meaning of ‘fluoride’

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3 w. ago White Lotus star Aimee Lou Wood fears her soaring fame will reignite her teenage bulimia and body dysmorphia battles

She earned a legion of fans - and an Emmy nomination - with her performance in The White Lotus.

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