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SHOCKING: Victoria wood - What They Never Told You

Meera Syal looks back: ‘South Asians weren’t seen as funny. We sold you fags or served you curry’

The actor, comedian and writer on idolising Victoria Wood, being fuelled by rage and injustice after a sexual assault, and the life-changing impact of Goodness Gracious Me

The Guardian - UK

Popular sitcom Dinnerladies is adapted for the stage – when you can get tickets

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The Independent UK

Beloved Victoria Wood sitcom Dinnerladies returns with new stage show

The new play promises a story inspired by the original TV series with veteran star Les Dennis stepping into one of the roles

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Victoria Wood sitcom Dinnerladies to return with stage play

It has been commissioned by the estate of the late comedian.

Evening Standard

Judith Chalmers obituary

TV presenter who became a household name for her sunny broadcasts from holiday destinations in ITV’s Wish You Were Here

The Guardian - UK

‘She’d been drinking with Julie Walters. I heard a crash’: Victoria Wood’s genius – by her friends, fans and actors

Dazzling performer, brilliant writer, maddening perfectionist, Easter Egg hunt maestro … on the 10th anniversary of Wood’s death, those who knew her best celebrate the shy introvert who redefined comedy

The Guardian - UK

Victoria Wood documentary reveals comedian ‘felt ashamed’ of her body, keeping secret press cuttings with cruel words about her size

The moving portrait of the comedian reveals intense sadness behind the laughter she created so effortlessly

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From Lord of the Flies to Deftones: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

Adolescence writer Jack Thorne takes on the classic tale of deserted schoolboys, while the US band warm up for a pummelling summer of alt metal

The Guardian - UK

Don’t forget Marti Caine’s place in comedy history

Brief letters: Victoria Wood documentary | Donald Trump’s limits | Gravedigging | Where the north begins

The Guardian - UK

Industry to Blue Velvet: the week in rave reviews

The high-finance melodrama returns, darker than ever, and David Lynch’s nightmare in suburbia gets another outing in the cinema. Here’s the pick of the week’s culture, taken from the Guardian’s best-rated reviews

The Guardian - UK

Becoming Victoria Wood review – intimate and hilarious portrait of the trailblazing standup

Featuring Wood, her famous sidekicks Julie Walters and Celia Imrie and other female standups, this documentary is tender, moving and an absolute hoot

The Guardian - UK

Victoria Wood would have found ‘hideous’ body comments hard – Jennifer Saunders

Saunders features in the new documentary Becoming Victoria Wood.

Evening Standard

Lake District theatre to be renamed after Victoria Wood and unveil new musical of her songs

Old Laundry theatre in Bowness-on-Windermere will change its name next year and premiere show to mark 10th anniversary of comedian’s death

The Guardian - UK

Frauds review – Suranne Jones’s heist caper proves you don’t always need a big screen to think big

4/5 Suranne Jones is an ex-con with cancer determined to carry out ‘one last job’ with her former partner (Jodie Whittaker), in ITV’s surreal and often gusset-wettingly funny show

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The Guardian - UK

From Hyacinth Bucket to Alan Bennett’s muse: Patricia Routledge’s utterly unique TV career

She wowed in Coronation Street, inspired Victoria Wood and in Keeping Up Appearances transformed a grotesque comic creation into a character we’ll never forget. Routledge was a talent like no other

The Guardian - UK

Kerry Godliman looks back: ‘If my parents hadn’t laughed so much at my jokes, I wouldn’t be doing what I do now’

The actor and comedian on her bohemian upbringing, being headhunted by Ricky Gervais, and why her knickers are good for her comedy

The Conversation

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.

Evening Standard

Victoria Wood’s intimate audio diaries to be heard in upcoming documentary

It is is set to feature contributions from her friends and colleagues along with being ‘told in her own words’.

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The Independent UK

Philip Lowrie, original Coronation Street star, dies aged 88

Actor played original bad boy Dennis Tanner in the ITV soap when it first launched in 1960

Evening Standard

Coronation Street and Dinnerladies star Anne Reid made a CBE

She has received three Bafta nominations during her career.

WhatToWatch

All Creatures' Nicholas Ralph and Callum Woodhouse tease the Christmas special

An interview with Nicholas Ralph and Callum Woodhouse about the All Creatures Great and Small Christmas Special 2024.

The Guardian - UK

David Nicholls: ‘I’m genuinely deathly at a dinner party’

The bestselling author on why he finds it easier to be funny on the page, being inspired by Sue Townsend and Victoria Wood, and his struggle with the ending of You Are Here

The Guardian - UK

‘Oh god I’m Sue Gray – don’t, I’m cringing’: comic Emma Sidi brings the embattled civil servant to the stage

After Starstruck and Taskmaster, the new project sees Sidi play a profane, lowbrow version of Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff. She explains why her latest comedy creation is breaking-news proof

The Independent UK

Miranda Hart had the world at her feet. Where on earth did she go?

The writer and actor’s memoir, ‘I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest with You’, reveals that the woman who seemed to have ‘such fun’ entertaining the nation was privately having none at all, writes Jasper Rees

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Sophie Willan is a genius — it was a case of love at first sight for Alma and me!

Alma's Not Normal is back baby!

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