The Capture creator on whether BBC series will return for season 4 Exclusive: Ben Chanan and lead star Holliday Grainger on what the future has in store The Independent UK · Apr 13
The Capture was once called TV’s most preposterous series. It’s now the most prescient TV: The BBC’s most underrated drama is returning for (possibly) the final time, bringing back Holliday Grainger’s dogged detective caught up in another deepfake conspiracy. Grainger and creator Ben Chanan talk to Jacob Stolworthy about the scarily prophetic series that deserves to be as adored as ‘Luther’ and ‘Line of… The Independent UK · Mar 5
Outlander’s Sam Heughan to play Macbeth in Royal Shakespeare Company debut The British theatre company has announced a new raft of programming. Evening Standard · Jun 3, 2025
Must the show go on? Theatre’s plucky motto may be out of step with our times Stage performances have been disrupted this summer by last-minute delays, cancellations and postponements. Is it just a run of bad luck – or a cultural shift? The Guardian - UK · Jul 23, 2024
Actor Lia Williams on playing Paula Vennells: ‘I think she’s more shallow than malicious. She created her own set of truths’ The actor on starring in a new play about sexual harassment, her portrayal of the Post Office’s Paula Vennells, and the playwright closest to her heart The Guardian - UK · Jun 9, 2024
Scoop: who is playing who in Netflix's shocking drama about that bombshell Prince Andrew interview The exchange has gone down in history as one of the palace’s biggest PR blunders. Now it’s being turned into a thrilling Netflix film starring Gillian Anderson and Billy Piper Evening Standard · Mar 27, 2024
How to watch Toby Jones in 'Mr Bates vs The Post Office' online Toby Jones stars in this true-life drama about a shocking U.K. scandal. Read our guide for how to watch "Mr Bates vs The Post Office" in full online and from anywhere now. Tom’s Guide · Jan 1, 2024
‘We all secretly think they’re spinning it out so everyone dies before they get their money’: Inside Mr Bates vs the Post Office The series stars Toby Jones as subpostmaster Alan Bates, the man who led the fight to bring the Post Office to justice after one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in British legal history. Ellie Harrison hears from the cast and crew about how it was made The Independent UK · Jan 1, 2024
Mr Bates vs The Post Office: who plays who, from Toby Jones to Monica Dolan ITV is dramatising the heartbreaking and appalling true story of the British subpostmasters wrongly accused of fraud and theft Evening Standard · Dec 27, 2023
Michael Gambon remembered by David Hare The playwright recalls his collaborations with the charismatic actor whose mix of mischief and vulnerability endeared him to everyone from Arthur Miller to Bill Nighy The Guardian - UK · Dec 21, 2023
Mr Bates and the Post Office: the true stories behind the show's real-life characters We uncover the real people behind the drama that reveals the awful Post Office scandal Evening Standard · Dec 20, 2023
The week in theatre: August in England; Blue Now; The Vortex – review Lenny Henry draws his audience deep into the life – and its shattering – of a Windrush evictee; Derek Jarman’s final film is reverentially revisited; and Lia Williams and son ignite Noël Coward at his darkest The Guardian - UK · May 14, 2023
The Vortex review – Noël Coward’s swirling jazz age psychodrama Lia Williams and her son Joshua James make a scintillating double act in a resonant revival of the 1924 hit The Guardian - UK · May 5, 2023
Who is who in Scoop: that bombshell Newsnight Prince Andrew interview is becoming a Netflix film Gillian Anderson will play news presenter Emily Maitlis Evening Standard · Mar 15, 2023
The Guardian - UK · Mar 5, 2023 ‘I’m not really a freedom fighter’: actor David Jonsson on Tinseltown and making it on home turf David Jonsson is being courted by Hollywood. But the star of Industry and Rye Lane prefers roles that reflect Black British life. He talks to Michael Segalov
The Guardian - UK · Oct 2, 2022 The week in theatre: John Gabriel Borkman; Eureka Day – review Simon Russell Beale is doubly commanding as Ibsen’s charismatic banker in a problem-raising revival, while a new anti-vax satire needs more than a shot of Helen Hunt’s star power
The Guardian - UK · Sep 30, 2022 John Gabriel Borkman review – Simon Russell Beale magnetic as the shamed alpha-male banker Turning to a lesser-staged work by Ibsen might seem risky, but Nicholas Hytner’s production is held together by some powerhouse performances
Evening Standard · Sep 30, 2022 John Gabriel Borkman review at the Bridge Theatre: this unsympathetic Ibsen is hard going The three central performances are focused and intense, but even Simon Russell Beale can’t leaven the gloom