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Michael Winterbottom: ‘Studying English at Oxford University was a mistake’

The director, 62, tells Michael Segalov about vertigo, risk aversion, shouting to get attention and how Steve Coogan makes things easy

The Guardian - UK

Big Beacon by Alan Partridge audiobook review – pomposity takes flight

Steve Coogan narrates the TV presenter’s attempts to resuscitate his career and ‘emigrate’ to the Kent coast

The Guardian - UK

Louis Theroux on whether he thinks BBC Savile drama The Reckoning is in ‘bad taste’

Documentary maker infamously interviewed Savile in 2000

The Independent UK

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'Flag-waving idiots': Steve Coogan in scathing takedown of royalists

STEVE Coogan has slated royal family fans as “flag-waving idiots” who he is “not keen” on.

The National (Scotland)

Steve Coogan says royal family subjugates the working class as he hits out at royalist ‘idiots’

Comic said that the royal family ‘keeps the foot on the throat of working class people’

The Independent UK

Maureen Lipman says artists should feel shame for stance on Gaza

Actors have urged for there to be humanitarian support in Gaza.

The Independent UK

Steve Coogan condemns ‘horrific’ Hamas attacks while defending pro-Palestine letter

‘It goes without saying that what Hamas did is evil beyond imagination,’ actor said

The Independent UK

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Steve Coogan and Sam Heughan address criticism after signing

The letter calls for an ‘an immediate ceasefire and the opening of Gaza’s crossings to allow humanitarian aid to enter unhindered’.

The Independent UK

Tilda Swinton, Steve Coogan and Miriam Margolyes among 2,000 artists calling for Gaza ceasefire

Open letter, also signed by Charles Dance and Maxine Peake, accuses government of ‘aiding and abetting’ Israel’s alleged ‘war crimes’

The Independent UK

The week in TV: The Reckoning; Frasier; Lessons in Chemistry; Scars: Surviving a Stabbing – review

Steve Coogan excels as Jimmy Savile in the BBC’s damage limitation exercise; a reboot of Frasier is slow to find its rhythm; and Brie Larson stars as a scientist turned chef in Apple’s adaptation of a hit novel

The Guardian - UK

Jimmy Savile docudrama tells a story that needs to be told

Letters: Readers respond to Lucy Mangan’s review of the BBC series The Reckoning

The Guardian - UK

‘Too Partridge’? No such thing! How I came to embrace my inner Alan

As a queer lefty, I should have little in common with Steve Coogan’s comic creation. And yet over the years, we have become one, says author and journalist Luke Turner

The Guardian - UK

The Reckoning: I've interviewed over 50 actors who've played real people and Steve Coogan's Savile is the most contentious

Steve Coogan portrays Jimmy Savile in the new BBC mini-series The Reckoning. This much anticipated and debated show is the most recent – and perhaps most contentious – in a long line of programmes “based on real events”, that focus on harrowing stories of abuse or murder.

The Conversation

Janet Street-Porter says watching Steve Coogan play Jimmy Savile ‘made my flesh creep’

‘Loose Women’ star said she could ‘barely watch’ BBC drama ‘The Reckoning’

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The Independent UK

Janet Street-Porter says watching Steve Coogan play Jimmy Savile ‘made my flesh creep’

‘Loose Women’ star said she could ‘barely watch’ BBC drama ‘The Reckoning’

The Independent UK

The Reckoning viewers praise Steve Coogan’s ‘skin-crawling’ portrayal of Jimmy Savile

Announcement that the BBC was working on the series initially triggered fierce criticism, with some calling it ‘disrespectful’ to the survivors

The Guardian - UK

The Reckoning review – Steve Coogan is chillingly brilliant as Jimmy Savile

Coogan captures the charm and creepy depravity of the notorious abuser. But this is a horrific tale most of us already know – and the BBC’s depressing drama adds little of value

Evening Standard

OPINION - Hateful fools will protest at the Israeli embassy — this is why we must let them

We know what “From the river / to the sea” means now: an Israel without Jews. The Palestinian Solidarity Campaign (PSC), a group of Muslim fundamentalists and affluent socialists, protests across Britain and this is its song. It will be at the Israeli embassy in Kensington tonight because it is…

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Evening Standard

Steve Coogan’s 10 greatest roles, from Tony Wilson to Alan Partridge

This week will see the Lancashire actor pivot to a sphere far beyond anything he’s done before when he plays Jimmy Savile in the BBC’s drama The Reckoning

The Independent UK

The Reckoning review: Steve Coogan’s Jimmy Savile drama is a parade of villainy without a point to make

Steve Coogan inhabits the lank silver-haired, cigar chomping, bejewelled Savile, in a show that never manages to rise above the cheap lure of voyeurism

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: Steve Coogan plays sex criminal Jimmy Savile in BBC drama

The series shines a light on the predator and necrophiliac who hid in plain sight as a ‘national treasure’. Plus, a sweet sequel to Love, Simon. Here’s what to watch on TV tonight

The Guardian - UK

Steve Coogan on playing Jimmy Savile: ‘I was so glad to think I would never have to look like that again’

The star of controversial BBC drama about the serial sex abuser reveals the stresses of the role

Evening Standard

Steve Coogan tells why he took on Jimmy Savile role for BBC drama

The series will track Savile’s rise to becoming one of the biggest stars in television and will also focus on his years of sexual abuse

The Independent UK

Steve Coogan and The Reckoning creators on their Jimmy Savile drama: ‘There was the potential for catastrophic failure if we got it wrong’

The four-part BBC One series explores how Savile used his celebrity and his powerful connections to conceal his sexual abuse and exploit institutional failings. Ellie Harrison hears from those who made the show about their divisive bid to bring the story to the screen

The Guardian - UK

The Reckoning first look – this Jimmy Savile drama contains some of TV’s most shocking scenes

Steve Coogan’s take on the serial sex offender is astonishingly spooky. But questions remain as to whether it should have been made – and whether the BBC has given itself too easy a ride

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