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From The West Wing to Blackadder: the best fictional prime ministers on TV

The UK sure loves speculation about prime ministers. So here’s some more! But who makes the finest – Stephen Fry, Emma Thompson, Jane Horrocks or Alan B’Stard?

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‘Melancholy magic’: how Judi Dench and a host of stars came under the spell of the greatest comedy in history

The Twelfth Night Reunion gathers some of the grandest names in British theatre, including Simon Callow and Stephen Fry, to explain why Shakespeare’s play continues to bewitch audiences

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Penelope Wilton: ‘They wanted me to tone down my death in Shaun of the Dead. It was too frightening’

The venerable screen and stage star reveals why she insisted on meeting a bloody end in Edgar Wright’s zomcom, loved working with Ricky Gervais and which of her film roles has the biggest Rastafarian fanbase

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Post your questions for Penelope Wilton

It’s your chance to ask the real-life Dame about playing a baroness in Downton, being married to Richard Briers in Ever Decreasing Circles or sacrificing herself to the Daleks

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Dame Penelope Wilton says Britain is ‘hypercritical’ as a nation

The stage and screen actress reprised her role as Isobel Crawley in Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale.

Evening Standard

Penelope Wilton: ‘My street cred went up when I did Shaun of the Dead’

The actor, 78, talks about her mean headmistresses, collection of paintings, getting lost in north London and the perks of being a dame

The Guardian - UK

Dame Penelope Wilton hints third Downton Abbey film may not be last

EXCLUSIVE: Castmate Imelda Staunton recently said that this would be the ‘final film’, but Dame Penelope Wilton isn’t so sure

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‘You wiped the floor with me!’ Tamsin Greig and Oliver Chris are having a riot with Rattigan

They are comedy sparring partners from Green Wing. Can the duo play stricken lovers in The Deep Blue Sea, the eviscerating play Rattigan poured his own heartbreak into? Warning: contains spoilers

The Guardian - UK

Luke Evans teases new music and tour following latest West End stint

Exclusive: Actor and singer also reveals what it's really like working with animals on stage in Backstairs Billy

Evening Standard

Murder Is Easy review – shines a whole new light on this Agatha Christie classic

This inventive take on a vintage crime tale replaces an English police officer with a Nigerian attaché. It tackles race, feminism and class, while still being quintessentially English

The Guardian - UK

How to watch Agatha Christie's Murder is Easy online or on TV

Murder comes to a sleep English village in this Agatha Christie adaptation. Here's how you can watch Murder is Easy online and from anywhere.

WhatToWatch

There goes the knighthood! How The Crown blew the palace doors off

A deluge of royal dramas is now being unleashed on screen and stage – with scant regard for accuracy. Is this The Crown’s legacy? As the lavish hit returns, we look at how it finally destroyed deference

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Backstairs Billy; The Box of Delights; Brenda’s Got a Baby – review

The puns ricochet between Penelope Wilton and Luke Evans in a frisky royal tale of mistress and servant; merriment dispels mystery at the RSC; and a pregnancy drama that delivers in parts

The Guardian - UK

Backstairs Billy review – anodyne comedy about the Queen Mother and her servant

Penelope Wilton plays the isolated royal and Luke Evans is her courtier in a light production that never gains much depth

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Who was ‘Backstairs Billy?’ The Queen Mother’s favourite aide who is the focus of a new play starring Downton Abbey icon

William Tallon – or Backstairs Billy – was no stranger to scandal

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Murder Is Easy: release date, cast, plot, trailer, interviews and all about the Agatha Christie adaptation

Murder Is Easy brings to life the Agatha Christie mystery with Penelope Wilton, David Jonsson, Morfydd Clark, Douglas Henshall, Jon Pointing and Tamzin Outhwaite among the stars.

Evening Standard

Luke Evans and Penelope Wilton to star in new West End comedy about the Queen Mother

Backstairs Billy explores the relationship between the Queen Mother and her servant Billy

The Guardian - UK

Penelope Wilton and Luke Evans to star in Queen Mother comedy in the West End

Michael Grandage will direct Wilton as the Queen Mother, with Evans playing her most loyal servant, in new play Backstairs Billy this autumn

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The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry review: British cinema can do road movies after all

In our The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry review, we argue that Hettie McDonald's road movie is anything but pedestrian.

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Oscar winner Jim Broadbent in Northumberland to film new movie The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

Jim Broadbent, who received an Oscar for his role in Iris, has been in Northumberland to shoot a new film with Penelope Wilton

Daily Mirror

After Life star Penelope Winton reveals Ricky Gervais' on-set habit that was a 'treat'

Dame Penelope Wilton played a poignant part in After Life as a widow who often met Ricky Gervais' character on a bench in a graveyard

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