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Bookish: release date, cast, plot, trailer, interviews, episode guide and everything you need to know

Bookish is a crime drama starring Mark Gatiss as a crime-solving bookshop owner while Polly Walker plays his wife.

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‘The worst film ever made’: how Sex Lives of the Potato Men broke British cinema

When the puerile comedy bombed, the film-makers blamed the critics and the Tories blamed the UK Film Council. Twenty years on, we reassess the legacy of a cinematic pariah whose champions include Stewart Lee and Mike Leigh

The Guardian - UK

Stranger Things, David Tennant’s Macbeth & Tuppence Middleton interview - The Standard Theatre Podcast

Plus, our hosts discuss the musicals they’re looking forward to see in London throughout this year: 2024 is looking to be a corker.

Evening Standard

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‘I was held hostage and made to wear a nappy!’ Julia Davis and others on the sublime ‘sick-com’ Nighty Night

As the gloriously despicable comedy turns 20, its creator and stars open up about shocking hate mail, being too scared to tell their parents they were in it – and George Michael’s wild Jill impression

The Guardian - UK

A Ghost Story for Christmas: Lot No 249 review – Mark Gatiss’s camp, creepy tale is absolutely bang on

The Sherlock creator’s annual festive spookathon is predictably hammy and great. It’s a clever take on Arthur Conan Doyle’s mummy revenge story that’s as tight as a pair of Victorian breeches

The Guardian - UK

Mark Gatiss forced to cut Doctor Who Easter egg out of Christmas ghost story Lot No 249

‘Doctor Who’ writer’s latest A Ghost Story For Christmas special is based on an 1892 short story by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Independent UK

How to watch A Ghost Story for Christmas: Lot No. 249 online or on TV

Kit Harrington stars in this years A Ghost Story for Christmas. Here's how you can watch Lot No. 249 online and from anywhere.

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Moonflower Murders: release date, cast, plot, trailer, interviews and everything you need to know about the Magpie Murders sequel series

Moonflower Murders is a thriller sequel with Lesley Manville, Daniel Mays and Tim McMullan returning as their Magpie Murders characters.

WhatToWatch

Mark Gatiss talks missing scenes as rumors surround his Doctor Who anniversary drama

As the 60th anniversary celebrations continue, Gatiss reflects on An Adventure in Space and Time

Total Film

A Christmas Carol: this safe bet should still startle us – past, present or future

There may be comfort in the retelling of Dickens’ familiar tale, but the best adaptations show the imagination to still surprise

The Guardian - UK

The game is afoot: BBC goes crazy for Sherlock Holmes creator Conan Doyle with two new shows

Lucy Worsley will examine Arthur Conan Doyle's fraught relationship with his most famous creation, and one of his ghost stories will be dramatised with Kit Harington this Christmas

Evening Standard

Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2023: Nicole Scherzinger, Paul Mescal and Paapa Essiedu on starry shortlist

'Treasures' of the London stage shortlisted for November's awards also include Andrew Scott, Mark Gatiss, Patsy Ferran, Rachael Stirling and Sophie Okonedo

Evening Standard

The Way Old Friends Do at the Criterion Theatre review: one for the ABBA-solutists

This odd play directed by Mark Gatiss starts from an implausible premise and gets steadily dafter

Evening Standard

Would you let Rishi Sunak look after your dog?

More Brits would trust dog rescuer Keir Starmer to pet sit for them

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Mark Gatiss among stars bringing the curtain down on the King’s Head Theatre Pub for the last time

Mark Gatiss was among the performers saying goodbye to the King’s Head Theatre Pub as it closed its doors on its home of half-a-century ahead of moving to a new building.

The Guardian - UK

Post your questions for Mark Gatiss

What does Mycroft actually do in the government? What’s it like to work with Tom Cruise? And is there any Doctor Who role he hasn’t played? Ask all this and more of the actor and writer

The Guardian - UK

Paintings from Mark Gatiss and John Lithgow among exhibition of actors’ art

Stars’ paintings go in show in London next month, with proceeds going to struggling actors

Evening Standard

OPINION - The Evening Standard Theatre Podcast: Mark Gatiss on playing Sir John Gieldgud in The Motive and the Cue

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The week in theatre: The Motive and the Cue; A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction; Jules et Jim; Supernova – review

Sam Mendes reignites Gielgud and Burton’s Broadway Hamlet; a climate crisis play is powered by bikes (and eco-shaming); Timberlake Wertenbaker has fun with Jules et Jim; and Rhiannon Neads hits escape velocity

The Independent UK

Our weekend arts and culture picks, from Silo to Ed Sheeran

A guide to the new releases over the coronation weekend

Evening Standard

I relate to Hollywood star’s love affair with theatre, says Tuppence Middleton

Tuppence Middleton is joined in The Motive and the Cue by Johnny Flynn as her husband Richard Burton and Mark Gatiss as Sir John Gielgud

The Independent UK

The Motive and the Cue review: Burton/Gielgud luvvie-off will give you goosebumps

Mark Gatiss is superb as Sir John Gielgud in Jack Thorne’s affecting play about Hamlet rehearsals with Richard Burton

The Guardian - UK

The Motive and the Cue review – Gielgud and Burton battle it out

Mark Gatiss and Johnny Flynn star in Jack Thorne’s play about the prickly pair’s 1960s Broadway production of Hamlet

Evening Standard

The Motive and the Cue, National Theatre review: Sam Mendes’s elegant production is a love letter to theatre

In this look at Richard Burton and Sir John Gielgud’s staging of Hamlet on Broadway, the play is not the thing

The Guardian - UK

Taking the knees in Jerusalem

My mother’s contribution to perhaps the most overlooked British folk art of the past 90 years: the canvas-work church kneeler

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