After Harry’s phone hacking victory, is it last orders for tabloid top brass? Some commentators now believe that the duke’s crusade against the popular press will finally bring about a reckoning The Guardian - UK · Dec 17, 2023
Steve Coogan: phone-hacking ruling reveals ‘systemic concealment’ Actor and comedian says Prince Harry’s partial high court win shows need for tighter press regulation The Guardian - UK · Dec 16, 2023
Top judge says anyone who lied to phone hacking inquiry should be prosecuted for perjury He also accused TV presenter and former Mirror editor Piers Morgan of ‘shameful reaction’ to court ruling The Independent UK · Dec 16, 2023
Alan Carr 'buzzing' about great Changing Ends news ITV has revealed the fate of Changing Ends, a semi-autobiographical sitcom about the young lif of comedian and TV star, Alan Carr. WhatToWatch · Nov 17, 2023
Michael Winterbottom: ‘Studying English at Oxford University was a mistake’ The director, 62, tells Michael Segalov about vertigo, risk aversion, shouting to get attention and how Steve Coogan makes things easy The Guardian - UK · Nov 11, 2023
Big Beacon by Alan Partridge audiobook review – pomposity takes flight Steve Coogan narrates the TV presenter’s attempts to resuscitate his career and ‘emigrate’ to the Kent coast The Guardian - UK · Nov 3, 2023
Louis Theroux on whether he thinks BBC Savile drama The Reckoning is in ‘bad taste’ Documentary maker infamously interviewed Savile in 2000 The Independent UK · Oct 31, 2023
'Flag-waving idiots': Steve Coogan in scathing takedown of royalists STEVE Coogan has slated royal family fans as “flag-waving idiots” who he is “not keen” on. The National (Scotland) · Oct 26, 2023
Steve Coogan says royal family subjugates the working class as he hits out at royalist ‘idiots’ Comic said that the royal family ‘keeps the foot on the throat of working class people’ The Independent UK · Oct 26, 2023
Maureen Lipman says artists should feel shame for stance on Gaza Actors have urged for there to be humanitarian support in Gaza. The Independent UK · Oct 22, 2023
Steve Coogan condemns ‘horrific’ Hamas attacks while defending pro-Palestine letter ‘It goes without saying that what Hamas did is evil beyond imagination,’ actor said The Independent UK · Oct 22, 2023
Steve Coogan and Sam Heughan address criticism after signing The letter calls for an ‘an immediate ceasefire and the opening of Gaza’s crossings to allow humanitarian aid to enter unhindered’. The Independent UK · Oct 22, 2023
Tilda Swinton, Steve Coogan and Miriam Margolyes among 2,000 artists calling for Gaza ceasefire Open letter, also signed by Charles Dance and Maxine Peake, accuses government of ‘aiding and abetting’ Israel’s alleged ‘war crimes’ The Independent UK · Oct 17, 2023
The week in TV: The Reckoning; Frasier; Lessons in Chemistry; Scars: Surviving a Stabbing – review Steve Coogan excels as Jimmy Savile in the BBC’s damage limitation exercise; a reboot of Frasier is slow to find its rhythm; and Brie Larson stars as a scientist turned chef in Apple’s adaptation of a hit novel The Guardian - UK · Oct 15, 2023
The Guardian - UK · Oct 13, 2023 Jimmy Savile docudrama tells a story that needs to be told Letters: Readers respond to Lucy Mangan’s review of the BBC series The Reckoning
The Guardian - UK · Oct 13, 2023 ‘Too Partridge’? No such thing! How I came to embrace my inner Alan As a queer lefty, I should have little in common with Steve Coogan’s comic creation. And yet over the years, we have become one, says author and journalist Luke Turner
The Conversation · Oct 12, 2023 The Reckoning: I've interviewed over 50 actors who've played real people and Steve Coogan's Savile is the most contentious Steve Coogan portrays Jimmy Savile in the new BBC mini-series The Reckoning. This much anticipated and debated show is the most recent – and perhaps most contentious – in a long line of programmes “based on real events”, that focus on harrowing stories of abuse or murder.
The Independent UK · Oct 12, 2023 Janet Street-Porter says watching Steve Coogan play Jimmy Savile ‘made my flesh creep’ ‘Loose Women’ star said she could ‘barely watch’ BBC drama ‘The Reckoning’
The Independent UK · Oct 11, 2023 Janet Street-Porter says watching Steve Coogan play Jimmy Savile ‘made my flesh creep’ ‘Loose Women’ star said she could ‘barely watch’ BBC drama ‘The Reckoning’
The Independent UK · Oct 10, 2023 The Reckoning viewers praise Steve Coogan’s ‘skin-crawling’ portrayal of Jimmy Savile Announcement that the BBC was working on the series initially triggered fierce criticism, with some calling it ‘disrespectful’ to the survivors
The Guardian - UK · Oct 9, 2023 The Reckoning review – Steve Coogan is chillingly brilliant as Jimmy Savile Coogan captures the charm and creepy depravity of the notorious abuser. But this is a horrific tale most of us already know – and the BBC’s depressing drama adds little of value
Evening Standard · Oct 9, 2023 OPINION - Hateful fools will protest at the Israeli embassy — this is why we must let them We know what “From the river / to the sea” means now: an Israel without Jews. The Palestinian Solidarity Campaign (PSC), a group of Muslim fundamentalists and affluent socialists, protests across Britain and this is its song. It will be at the Israeli embassy in Kensington tonight because it is…
Evening Standard · Oct 9, 2023 Steve Coogan’s 10 greatest roles, from Tony Wilson to Alan Partridge This week will see the Lancashire actor pivot to a sphere far beyond anything he’s done before when he plays Jimmy Savile in the BBC’s drama The Reckoning
The Independent UK · Oct 9, 2023 The Reckoning review: Steve Coogan’s Jimmy Savile drama is a parade of villainy without a point to make Steve Coogan inhabits the lank silver-haired, cigar chomping, bejewelled Savile, in a show that never manages to rise above the cheap lure of voyeurism
The Guardian - UK · Oct 9, 2023 TV tonight: Steve Coogan plays sex criminal Jimmy Savile in BBC drama The series shines a light on the predator and necrophiliac who hid in plain sight as a ‘national treasure’. Plus, a sweet sequel to Love, Simon. Here’s what to watch on TV tonight