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Steve Coogan

August 2024

  • Lindsay Duncan in Dear Octopus.

    The best theatre to stream this month
    The best theatre to stream this month: comedians do Chekhov, Into the Woods and Dear Octopus

    Get a taste of Edinburgh fringe, enjoy Shakespearean insights from illustrious actors and sing along with a handful of musicals in our pick of streaming shows

July 2024

  • ‘We need a cultural economy that can sustain a career in the arts’ … Bayadère: The Ninth Life by Shobana Jeyasingh.

    ‘The arts stop us killing each other’: stars tell Labour how to rescue Britain’s downtrodden culture

    Steve McQueen, Tracey Emin, Steve Coogan, Adjoa Andoh, Danny Dyer, Jesse Darling and many more spell out what must be done to restore Britain’s cultural lifeblood, from ending elitism to supercharging libraries – and flooding schools with music
  • Mick McCarthy and Steve Coogan

    Steve Coogan to play Mick McCarthy in film about bust-up with Roy Keane

    Steve Coogan is to play Mick McCarthy in a film about the then Republic of Ireland manager’s bust-up with Roy Keane before the 2002 World Cup
  • Despicable Me 4.

    Despicable Me 4 review – Gru goes into witness protection to keep Minion magic alive

    Steve Carell’s everyvillain starts a dull new life but nemesis Will Ferrell’s Maxime Le Mal has other ideas

June 2024

  • Sally Hawkins as Philippa Langley, and Harry Lloyd as Richard III in The Lost King, film still

    The Lost King and Baby Reindeer: turning fact into film fiction is a tricky business

    Letters: The BBC film and the Netflix series made easily avoidable blunders, write Peter Grimsdale and Mike Pitts
  • Sally Hawkins as Philippa Langley with Steve Coogan as John Langley in The Lost King: they are sitting on a wooden bench in front of a historical site. Hawkins wears a mustard-yellow anorak and Coogan a grey suit and tie, dressed as their characters.

    Portrayal of character in Steve Coogan’s film The Lost King is defamatory, judge rules

    Coogan, production company Baby Cow and Pathe, the distributors of the 2022 film, will now face a full trial
  • Steve Coogan

    More than 100 artists tell Starmer to halt arms sales to Israel if he becomes PM

    Letter signatories from Steve Coogan to Paloma Faith urge Keir Starmer to ‘take stand’ for human rights and international law

February 2024

  • Sally Hawkins and Steve Coogan in The Lost King.

    Steve Coogan and makers of The Lost King sued by academic over his portrayal in the film

    The former deputy registrar of the University of Leicester claims the 2022 movie presented him as ‘dismissive, patronising and misogynistic’
  • Steve Brown

    Steve Brown obituary

    Composer and lyricist who was a long-time collaborator of Steve Coogan and Harry Hill, and co-created the award-winning musical Spend, Spend, Spend
  • Alan Partridge and Steve Coogan

    Steve Coogan to return as Alan Partridge in BBC mockumentary

    Six-episode series will follow the fictional presenter as he reintegrates into UK life after a year in Saudi Arabia

December 2023

  • The Gallows Pole.

    2023 in TV
    ‘A total cringe-fest’: the TV letdowns of the year

    From dramas with dialogue so schmaltzy you want to dry heave to possibly the worst TV show in history, there have been plenty of televisual disappointments in 2023. Here are the biggest stinkers
  • Keir Starmer

    Labour backs away from press reforms after Prince Harry’s phone-hacking court victory

    The party has made it clear that Keir Starmer had no intention of reviving the second stage of the Leveson inquiry
  • Steve Coogan.

    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

November 2023

  • Alan Partridge

    Audiobook of the week
    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

October 2023

  • ‘A dead-eyed bogeyman’: Steve Coogan as Jimmy Savile in The Reckoning.

    Observer TV reviews
    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
  • Luke Turner

    ‘Too Partridge’? No such thing! How I came to embrace my inner Alan

    Luke Turner
    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
    • Steve Coogan on playing Jimmy Savile: ‘I was so glad to think I would never have to look like that again’

    • The Reckoning first look – this Jimmy Savile drama contains some of TV’s most shocking scenes

    • ‘The most disgusting human being I’ve ever met’: a Jimmy Savile survivor speaks out

September 2023

  • ‘A tale for our time’ … (from left) Sean Foley, Steve Coogan and Armando Iannucci are bringing Dr Strangelove to the stage.

    Steve Coogan to star in Armando Iannucci’s Dr Strangelove play

    Coogan will follow in Peter Sellers’ footsteps to play multiple roles in stage adaptation of Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 satirical war film
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