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Wacky, brilliant, and moving: 11 shows not to miss at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe

EDINBURGH FRINGE 2025: Big celebrity names and familiar premises are simply not the point of Edinburgh Fringe. Isobel Lewis collates some of the best shows at this year’s festival worth taking a chance on

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Tom Basden on Here We Go and The Ballad of Wallis Island: ‘Writing love songs for Carey Mulligan? Mortifying’

INTERVIEW: The writer, actor, and musician has, over the years, quietly become a staple of British comedy. He tells Ellie Harrison about mining absurdity for laughs and his golden partnership with Tim Key

The Independent UK

Your 10 essential Edinburgh Fringe comedy shows

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is coming very soon indeed, and here are the unmissable shows

Evening Standard

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Edinburgh festival 2025: 20 golden comedy shows to see this summer

Desiree Burch returns, Bridget Christie drops in and Toussaint Douglass flies while Joe Kent-Walters goes beyond the grave and Jazz Emu has a midlife crisis

The Guardian - UK

The Ballad of Wallis Island is a masterpiece of the extraordinary made ordinary

With The Ballad of Wallis Island, Tom Basden and Tim Key have written a poignant and comical exploration of music, loss, nostalgia and hope.

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Mountainhead to Nintendo Switch 2: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

Steve Carell stars in Succession creator Jesse Armstrong’s new satire targeting tech billionaires, while the long-awaited games console is finally here

The Guardian - UK

Tim Key: ‘Filming Alan Partridge, I was living in a lot of fear’

INTERVIEW: The actor and comic poet speaks to Louis Chilton about his new theatrically released film ‘The Ballad of Wallis Island’, the pressures of acting in ‘Peep Show’ and Alan Partridge’s ‘Mid Morning Matters’, and the realisation that made him stop supporting Liverpool FC

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The Ballad of Wallis Island is an unexpectedly upbeat spin on Stephen King’s Misery

4/5 A folk-rock hero (Tom Basden) is tricked into a reunion with his ex-bandmate (Carey Mulligan) in this gentle musical comedy about fame and fandom, that blessedly steers clear of mawkishness at every turn

The Independent UK

Carey Mulligan ‘checked by medic’ during freezing Welsh summer filming

She plays a folk singer who reunites to perform a gig off the coast of Wales.

Evening Standard

‘There’s no chance an American will laugh’: Tim Key on his very British new film and the US Office sequel

The idiosyncratic comic’s sprawling CV includes poetry, Alan Partridge and a spell in a pigeon costume but his latest career destination might be his most unlikely yet – Hollywood

The Guardian - UK

Creators behind new British comedy react to ‘mad’ Richard Curtis praise

Curtis has hailed the comedy as ‘one of the greatest British films of all time’

The Independent UK

Renée Zellweger nominated as best actress in 2025 National Film Academy awards

Ahead of the 11th annual ceremony, it’s been announced Renée Zellweger has been nominated as best actress in this year’s National Film Academy awards.

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Can the ‘feel-good’ movie exist in 2025? ‘The Ballad of Wallis Island' proves maybe it can

By the time a film arrives on movie screens, its makers often strive to find ways to articulate how relevant it is, how it speaks to now

The Independent UK

Bong Joon Ho: ‘I wish I had Ken Loach’s energy, but I’m just thinking about nap time’

How do you follow up an Oscar winner like Parasite? If you’re the South Korean auteur, you make a sci-fi satire where Robert Pattinson dies over and over again. The director discusses the inspirational Loach and Mike Leigh and why it’s hard being a ‘middle-aged film-maker’

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The Ballad of Wallis Island: release date, reviews, trailer, cast and everything we know about the Carey Mulligan movie

Carey Mulligan, Tom Basden and Tim Key star in The Ballad of Wallis Island. Here’s everything you need to know about the indie comedy.

The Conversation

5 fun podcasts for when you need a break from the news

So-called “comedy” podcasts have huge followings, but who gets to say they’re actually funny? Stellar “comedy” hosts such as Joe Rogan have never made me laugh, while other prominent comedians package abrasive political commentary rather than rib-tickling humour.

The Guardian - UK

Alex Horne looks back: ‘Both my careers – the Horne Section and Taskmaster – are an extension of playing with friends’

Alex Horne, Joe Auckland and Ben Reynolds on being best friends since childhood, their shared love of comedy, and spending their birthdays together

The Guardian - UK

The best theatre to stream this month: Jekyll & Hyde, Daniel Kitson’s Tree and more

Forbes Masson stars in Gary McNair’s version of the gothic novella, Tim Key joins Kitson in an Old Vic two-hander and Jason Manford celebrates all musicals great and small

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Tim Key: ‘I like writing in the pub, but then the poems tend to be about the pub’

The comedian on his strangest fan encounter, preshow rituals and his new film with Tom Basden and Carey Mulligan

The Guardian - UK

‘I’d hate to act in the nude’: Tom Basden on risque writing, sitcom gold and casting Carey Mulligan

His BBC One series Here We Go has single-handedly revived the family sitcom genre, and Hollywood stars love his short films. Might he be one of Britain’s most versatile comedy writers?

The Guardian - UK

The best podcasts of 2023 so far

Rylan Clark discusses how to be a man, Daisy May Cooper is unreceptive to classic novels and Jon Ronson investigates a debutante turned neo-Nazi in the pick of the year to date

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Beyond Paradise makers reveal they're already working on season 2

Plans for Beyond Paradise's second season are already well underway.

The Guardian - UK

‘I’ve listened to A Hard Day’s Night 400 times but can’t tell you the words’: Tim Key’s honest playlist

The comic poet brushes his teeth to the Succession theme and likes to sing obscure Russian ska-punk. But which late-80s pop star still makes him swoon?

WhatToWatch

Beyond Paradise boss teases what's next after heartbreaking cliffhanger

Beyond Paradise's final episode sees Martha and Humphrey at a crossroads...

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Beyond Paradise season 2 - Everything we know so far

With the finale just a week away, we've shared details of what show creator Tony Jordan has said of a Beyond Paradise season 2.

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