TV tonight: Park Chan-wook’s adaptation starring Hoa Xuande and Robert Downey Jr
Sandra Oh is also among the cast of The Sympathizer, based on Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer-winning novel. Plus: D-Day 80: We Were There. Here’s what to watch this evening
August 2023
TV tonight
TV tonight: the remarkable story of the editor of a Russian independent newspaper
Georgie Grier plays to sell-out Edinburgh crowd 24 hours after tearful tweet
TV review
Wonders of the Moon with Dara Ó Briain review – beautiful, cosmically compelling TV
TV tonight
TV tonight: amateur astronomer Dara Ó Briain takes us on a moon tour
October 2022
Dara O Briain review – the Mock the Week man gets intimate
Fine crowd-work, choice joke-writing and a standout set-piece about the comedian’s Kafkaesque efforts to trace his birth parents
Dara Ó Briain takes aim at rightwing critics and ‘terrible idea’ of Brexit
Mock the Week host also says people ‘should fight to protect the BBC’ as series draws to a close after 17 years
‘Storylines were getting crazier’: Mock the Week to end after 17 years
‘We just couldn’t be more silly than the news was already’ says host of current affairs comedy panel show
September 2021
Live at the Globe with Dara Ó Briain review – a tempest of great gags
The Mock the Week man clearly enjoys his turn on the prestige stage, and Jen Brister, Athena Kugblenu and Nina Conti are able supporting players
August 2020
Lockdown culture
Greatest Ever Late ’n’ Live review – a welcome hit of Edinburgh standup
Footage of Dara Ó Briain, Sarah Millican, John Bishop and Jason Byrne features in this attempt to recapture the mythic status of a renowned fringe night
November 2019
Jump the shark
How Frankie Boyle’s departure turned Mock the Week into a corporate conference
After 14 years, and following the departure of some key players, the show has all the satirical bite of a gummy turtle hatchling
December 2018
Children's book roundup
Children’s and teens roundup: the best new picture books and novels
Mealtime wars, a puppy without a bark and crazy science … fun and facts for all ages in this month’s selection
September 2018
Books interview
Dara Ó Briain: ‘Who do I write science books for? The curious’
The best original photographs from the Observer
Original Observer photography
April 2018
Dara O Briain review – Mock the Week star delivers big-hitting comedy
Ó Briain mines his public status, midlife hypochondria and the march of technology for his new show Voice of Reason
September 2017
Observer New Review Q&A
Dara Ó Briain: ‘Poo is a gateway drug, then I hit them with the cosmology’
The comedian and TV presenter on his new children’s book and standup show, being starstruck by Stephen Hawking, and David Beckham’s weird way with Lego
September 2016
Dara Ó Briain’s Go 8 Bit: how comedy brought video games back to TV
The Comedian's Comedian: the podcast that gets inside funny people's heads
July 2016
New Robot Wars: good, clean, innocent fun with giant circular saws
BBC2’s revival feeds the appetite for nostalgia TV and our growing love of tech
