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MYSTERIOUS: Sue johnston - What They Never Told You

Digested week: Prince George’s hair has such brio as he starts at Eton

Plus, AI doom-mongering, a drag Ann Droid and how your toilet flush can give you norovirus

The Guardian - UK

Could robots help tackle loneliness? BBC’s Ann Droid raises questions about the future of care

New BBC sitcom Ann Droid imagines a near future in which robots provide care and companionship to older people at home.

The Conversation

TV tonight: Jon Hamm’s offbeat adult animation lands in the UK

The star voices a maverick cop in new cartoon Grimsburg. Plus: the finale of Scottish crime drama Granite Harbour. Here’s what to watch this evening

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TV tonight: a great comedy drama about a flawed Muslim American

Ramy Youssef’s excellent show finally returns to UK terrestrial TV. Plus: a post-apocalyptic origin story. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Ann Droid review – Diane Morgan and Sue Johnston’s fresh, funny robot comedy is just wonderful

It’s silly, singular and occasionally tearjerking: this tale of a mechanical companion to an elderly widow is shot through with love and care

The Guardian - UK

'Playing a robot is harder than you think': Diane Morgan talks new comedy Ann Droid and reveals inspiration behind the show

The actress also reveals some of the 'painful' side effects she experienced by portraying the robot Linda

Woman & Home

How to watch Ann Droid from anywhere - stream the new Diane Morgan comedy online

Don't miss out on the hilarious new series from the Philomena Cunk actress

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TV tonight: Diane Morgan and Sue Johnston’s great new sitcom

An elderly widow gets an awkward android companion in Morgan’s charming series. Plus: Sally Phillips’ camp comedy drama. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Ann Droid is the new Diane Morgan comedy series on BBC iPlayer this week that you can't miss — but don't overlook these 3 underrated gems on the streamer either

Diane Morgan is back with brand-new comedy Ann Droid on BBC iPlayer this week. But while you're there, why not check out these 3 hidden gems you've definitely missed?

TechRadar

‘There’s a loneliness that creeps in when you’re old and on your own’: Sue Johnston on isolation and how it informs her unmissable new TV show Ann Droid

Along with Diane Morgan, the actress stars in a new BBC comedy about a widowed lady who hires a robot to ease her loneliness

Woman & Home

‘Suddenly I was a celebrity. I didn’t want to be!’ Sue Johnston on fame, loneliness and her new robot pal

She’s been a soap icon, a Royle and even a zombie pensioner. Now the actor is starring in Ann Droid, Diane Morgan’s madcap comedy about an elderly woman and her cybernetic companion

The Guardian - UK

What World Cup? It’s the ultimate summer TV guide

From the spectacular return of Larry David to Will Ferrell’s wild golf comedy and Anya Taylor-Joy as a badass con artist, it’s going to be a summer of fantastic television. Here are the shows you can’t miss

The Guardian - UK

Play for Today: The revival hoping to save British TV from a class crisis

IN FOCUS: ‘Play for Today’ one-off films were a seminal moment in television in the Seventies and Eighties, writes Hannah J Davies. Decades later, Channel 5 is bringing them back, and aiming to diversify small-screen drama

The Independent UK

Sue Johnston and Paul Ready star in Diane Morgan’s new AI sitcom

Filming has already started for the new series, Ann Droid, which follows a friendship between Sue and Linda, a humanoid robot.

Evening Standard

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The Independent UK

Comedy legend to make Brookside return for Hollyoaks crossover episode

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Ricky Tomlinson will return to Brookside as Bobby Grant for special one-off episode

The 85-year-old will reprise his role as Liverpudlian trade unionist Bobby Grant in the episode

Evening Standard

Ricky Tomlinson to return to Brookside for one-off special episode

The 85-year-old will reprise his role as Bobby Grant alongside his former co-star, Sue Johnston.

WhatToWatch

Stuffed: cast, plot, first look and everything we know about the Christmas comedy

Stuffed is a Christmas caper starring comedian Guz Khan as a father who takes his family to Lapland.

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The Guardian - UK

The week in TV: Generation Z; Storyville: Eternal You; Helmand: Tour of Duty; Doctor Odyssey – review

Sue Johnston and Anita Dobson devour the young in Ben Wheatley’s gripping zombie drama; a peek at the ‘digital afterlife’ chills; 10 Welsh Guards relive the hell of Helmand; and all aboard Ryan Murphy’s uber-camp cruise ship

WhatToWatch

Anita Dobson, Sue Johnston and Robert Lindsay on playing pensioners with an appetite for destruction in Generation Z

Anita Dobson, Sue Johnston and Robert Lindsay tell us about their gory new C4 series Generation Z.

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: Ben Wheatley’s starry zombie horror about the old eating the young

Generation Z is a gory but smart new series with a top cast. Plus, a startling investigation into Saudi Arabia’s human rights. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Generation Z: Sue Johnston is the greatest zombie to grace our screens in decades

When an army van full of toxins crashes into a care home, all the boomers become biters – and it’s kids’ blood they’re after. The undead are back, baby!

WhatToWatch

DNA Journey season 6: release date, celebrities, episodes and everything we know

DNA Journey season 6 features a shocking revelation that almost caused one star to drop out.

The Guardian - UK

‘Sue Johnston’s first day on set, she was biting someone’s nose off’: Ben Wheatley on his zombie drama Generation Z

The horror director’s TV debut is a coming-of-age gang show like Skins, but with doomscrolling, toxic masculinity and death by pensioner – he brings plenty of visceral gore with him

WhatToWatch

The Responder fans go wild for an impromptu 'Brookside reunion' on the BBC show

The Responder viewers were pleased to see a few familiar faces in last night's episode

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