79 m. ago John Cleese shares 'very sad' admission admission after making huge BBC decision

John Cleese, who is best known for his work on Monty Python's Flying Circus and Fawlty Towers, has a blunt outlook on British comedy

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4 h. ago John Cleese launches blistering attack on 'clueless' BBC bosses who have 'no idea what they're doing' as he blames woke censorship for killing British comedy

Cleese, who starred as the hapless and perpetually irritated hotel owner Basil Fawlty, has insisted fans will never again see work from him on the BBC.

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48 h. ago John Cleese worries 'it might kill me' as Monty Python star faces health battles

Monty Python legend John Cleese has opened up on his health battles, admitting his latest project "might kill" him as he prepares to jet off to the United States

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3 d. ago ITV star frontrunner to replace iconic Midsomer Murders detective after show exit

An ITV star is the bookies' favourite to replace Daniel Casey as DS Gavin Troy in the Midsomer Murders new stage play

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3 d. ago ITV Vera star tipped to replace detective in Midsomer Murders

EXCLUSIVE: One Vera star is tipped to join the Midsomer Murders stage play

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3 d. ago John Cleese, 85, fears 'it might kill me' as he addresses health struggles

Monty Python legend John Cleese has opened up on his health battles, admitting that his latest project "might kill" him as he prepares to jet off on tour

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3 d. ago The Great British Bake Off: where can you watch classic GBBO episodes? Full details

The Great British Bake Off is back soon - but can you watch the old episodes? 👀🍰

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4 d. ago John Cleese confirms Fawlty Towers sequel stage play with classic episodes including Basil the Rat

The 85-year-old comedy legend brought the BBC classic back to life last year with Fawlty Towers: The Play

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4 d. ago ‘He’s a real human being with flaws’: the complicated life of Alexander McQueen hits the stage

The victories and tragedies of the famed British fashion designer make the basis of probing off-Broadway play House of McQueen“You have always made the most beautiful things out of absolute shit.” This is Darrah Cloud’s favourite line in her new play about Alexander McQueen, dubbed the bad boy or enfant terrible of British fashion.“It’s what he did,” Cloud explains via Zoom from New York. “He had the ability to translate trauma into beauty or joy into beauty or an oyster shell into a dress. I mean, what an extraordinary thing.” Continue reading...

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1 week ago As You Like It review – Ralph Fiennes’ sombre, stately directorial stage debut

Theatre Royal BathThe actor’s minimal staging of the Shakespeare comedy favours stillness and feeling over comic fizz, with moving performances from Gloria Obianyo and Amber JamesRalph Fiennes has proven himself to be a Shakespearean actor with gravitas over the decades. He brings that weight to his directorial stage debut of a Shakespeare play – and a comedy at that. Not exactly known for his comic chops (there is the odd Wes Anderson film in his oeuvre), Fiennes brings a depth to this pastoral about tyrant brothers and exiles that dares to venture into sombreness. It gives the drama a fuller body without taking away from its mischief.Played in modern dress, the court of Duke Frederick (Patrick Robinson) is less a kingdom than a suited and booted corporation. Although his usurped brother, Duke Senior (also played by Robinson) bears vestiges of the boardroom in his demeanour, he and his band of self-exiled dukes seem to have built an alternative community in the forest of Arden, inc...

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1 week ago ITV Midsomer Murders detective addresses replacement after 'big promotion'

Midsomer Murders star Daniel Casey has teased his replacement in the new stage play

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1 week ago How to watch classic Educating Yorkshire? Where to find old season before Educating Yorkshire 2025

Classic episodes of Educating Yorkshire will soon be easy to watch 📺🚨

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2 w. ago Rangers vs Club Brugge Champions League qualifier prediction, odds and betting offer

Rangers face Club Brugge in Champions League play-offs as Russell Martin seeks a statement on the European stage after a mixed start in the Scottish Premiership

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2 w. ago Man Utd discover their first Carabao Cup second round opponents for 11 years

Manchester United last played in the second round of the Carabao Cup in 2014, but they are back at the earliest possible stage of the competition that Premier League sides can play in

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3 w. ago 'Captivating' 90s TV drama with a 'rich cast' is available to stream and fans are loving it

The BBC drama This Life was first broadcast in 1996 and ran for two series and 33 episodes, but it is still considered a classic by fans and has been hailed as the 'best British TV drama ever'

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3 w. ago Mare’s Nest review – an opaque, challenging reflection on the end of the world

Locarno film festivalBen Rivers’s cine-poem, based on Don DeLillo’s climate crisis play The Word for Snow, follows a child’s strange encounters as she wanders in a postapocalyptic world devoid of adultsEnglish experimentalist Ben Rivers offers up another challenging, intriguing cine-poem, this time on the nature of existence and the end of the world. It is opaque but with flashes of strange brilliance, an adaptation of The Word for Snow, a one-act stage play by Don DeLillo from 2007 that reflected on the climate crisis.A child called Moon (Moon Guo Barker) wanders around a strange world, entirely peopled by other children, except for one eerie monochrome sequence in which Moon sees adult figures in some kind of underground tunnel, frozen in attitudes of dismay similar to the citizenry of Pompeii. In the course of her travels, bookended by clambering out of a crashed car and finally driving happily off, Moon has dreamlike encounters with these children who speak with the tongues of a...

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3 w. ago ‘There’s a thug in all of us’: James Norton on privacy, playing villains and pushing himself to the limit

He made his name as one of the great British TV baddies in Happy Valley, and bared all in a gruelling production of A Little Life. Despite facing heartbreak and press intrusion, he’s ‘feeling Zen’ as he turns 40 – and about to step it up a gear with two epic new showsTwo days before we meet, James Norton turned 40. To celebrate, he threw a massive party at his home in north-east London – and he’s still feeling the effects. “I didn’t get any sleep,” he admits, “and yesterday was just a huge clear-up, so if I struggle for a word or an anecdote, please forgive me.”To be fair, I’ve seen Norton in worse shape. The last time I encountered him in person he was naked, crawling around on all fours while being spat at. “Oh, yeah,” he smiles, realising I’m talking about his performance as Jude in the 2023 stage version of A Little Life. In that play, an adaptation of Hanya Yanagihara’s cult tragic novel, he remained on stage at the Savoy theatre in London for its whopping three-and-a-half...

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3 w. ago Happy Hunger Games ! Complete Casting Revealed for London Stage Play

Happy Hunger Games ! Complete Casting Revealed for London Stage Play  Playbill

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3 w. ago 'Surprisingly poor' John Cleese, 85, is set to buy a house in Bath with his fourth wife

The Monty Python star has lived in Monaco in the past, and more recently in Nevis in the Caribbean, where there's no income tax. Pictured: File photo of the Royal Crescent in Bath

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4 w. ago Chris Hemsworth on performing alongside Ed Sheeran: ‘It was an out of body experience’

Hemsworth joined the singer on stage to play at a concert filled with 70,000 people in Bucharest, Romania

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