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Pressure: Andrew Scott excels in D-day drama that gets caught between history and Hollywood

Secretary of state for the treasury, Scott Bessent, recently declared that the US is readying a comprehensive package of sanctions targeting Iran that in size and scale amounted to an “economic D-day”. Although a problematic analogy that does disservice to the memory of those Allied soldiers who landed in Normandy,…

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Pressure Reviews Are Here, And A Story About A Weather Forecast Has Never Sounded So Intense

Brendan Fraser and Andrew Scott star in the D-Day drama.

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Magic review – spellbinding standoff between Houdini and Conan Doyle

David Haig shines as writer and star of this dramatisation about the fraught friendship of two entertainment giants and their debate over what is real or simply illusion

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Houdini’s reappearing act: David Haig’s new play lays bare the magician’s dispute with Conan Doyle

An interest in spiritualism drew the escapologist and the Sherlock Holmes author together but, as actor-playwright Haig’s drama Magic shows, also threw them into conflict

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David Killick obituary

Other lives: Actor whose 60-year career spanned the Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre, as well as popular TV shows such as A Touch of Frost

The Guardian - UK

‘Just sprinkle your swearing s*** all over it’: how The Thick of It redefined expletives on TV

IN FOCUS: Armando Iannucci wanted to make something ‘rough and ready’ about what politics was really like in the 2000s, but with a team of talented writers, he created a classic comedy that still resonates today. Katie Rosseinsky dissects the anatomy of its foul-mouthed invective

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‘I thought: “I’ve engineered the death of Hugh Grant!’’’ – the inside story of Four Weddings and a Funeral

The low-budget romcom about Britain’s upper middle classes launched the careers of its writer Richard Curtis and Grant. Cast and crew share their stories – from Liz Hurley in that dress to Amber Rudd’s role as an ‘aristocracy coordinator’

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Minority Report review – futuristic fugitive thriller is criminally undercooked

Max Webster and David Haig’s ambitious female-led stage version of the sci-fi thriller is overwhelmed by its own optics

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