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‘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 · Jul 6

‘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 · Jul 3

From Mrs Merton to Scorchio! It’s Caroline Aherne’s 10 best moments

She radiated love as the narrator of Gogglebox, created one of the most emotional sitcom moments of all time and asked Debbie McGee a question she’ll never forget. Ten years on from her untimely death, we remember the TV legend

The Guardian - UK · Jul 2

Stephen Graham is right. Television has forgotten how funny working-class people are

COMMENT: The British actor has said that TV needs to stop making working-class families look miserable. Chris Harvey, who couldn’t agree more, argues that if you don’t have a broad enough spread of writers, stereotypes begin to take hold

The Independent UK · Feb 5, 2025

‘We wrote “Suit you, sir!” for Harry Enfield – he didn’t like it’: an oral history of The Fast Show

Thirty years after it first aired, the stars of the hit BBC sketch show tell all – from wowing Johnny Depp to inter-office tension that left one of the cast in tears

The Guardian - UK · Oct 9, 2024

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!

WhatToWatch · Oct 7, 2024

Gogglebox viewers DIVIDED over a rare move from producers

Gogglebox fans are unsure about the latest couch commentators to join the show

WhatToWatch · Oct 6, 2024

Sophie Willan — things you didn't know about the actress

Sophie is the creator and lead star in award-winning sitcom Alma's Not Normal and is in Ludwig, but what else is there to know about her?

WhatToWatch · Oct 2, 2024

An Evening With The Fast Show review – chummy chat and catchphrase classics

Ted and Ralph, the ‘Suit you!’ tailors and the rest of the gang’s most fondly remembered characters reconvene for a 30th-anniversary greatest hits sketch show, interspersed with the cast’s reminiscences about their creation

The Guardian - UK · Mar 24, 2024

On my radar: Jack Rooke’s cultural highlights

The comedian and Big Boys writer picks a coming of age film, the queen of British comedy and the one musical he can stand

The Guardian - UK · Feb 17, 2024