‘The arts stop us killing each other’: stars tell Labour how to rescue Britain’s downtrodden culture
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TV tonight
TV tonight: Danny Dyer is back on top geezer form in a new comedy
‘It’s been a mad old journey’: Danny Dyer on family, royalty and his tough guy image
April 2024
The week in TV: Feud: Truman Capote vs the Swans; Danny Dyer: How to Be a Man; Blue Lights; Dinosaur – review
TV review
Danny Dyer: How to Be a Man review – come on, geezer, is this really the best you can do?
December 2023
Pyramids of geezer: a new zenith of Danny Dyer movies looms
The actor is ‘buzzing’ to be making a film about drug-taking and football hooliganism directed by his old collaborator Nick Love. Does this mean his time as an unexpected national treasure is nearing an end?
August 2023
The watcher
Henpocalypse: The hilarious hen-do comedy about drinking ‘penis coladas’ at the end of the world
The bride-to-be and pals’ trip to a remote Welsh cottage might coincide with a humanity-destroying pandemic. But who says the wedding can’t go ahead?
April 2023
TV review
Absolutely Dyer: Danny and Dani Do Italy review – apparently the country’s full of ‘mad little gaffs’
The father-daughter duo aren’t sure why they’ve been asked to present a travel show, but proceed to attack it with gusto – volcanoes, catacombs, fish semen and all
TV review
Scared of the Dark review – the stupidest reality show of all time
Boring, derivative and occasionally downright horrible, this series convinces celebrities to spend a week fumbling around a pitch-black bunker. It’s tedious in the extreme
The watcher
Scared of the Dark: this throwback reality show is just Celebrity Big Brother with the lights off
What could be worse than being stuck in the pitch black for Channel 4’s new Danny Dyer-hosted series? Being trapped in there with Chris Eubank…
March 2023
Comic Relief raises over £34m as stars parody The Traitors and Eurovision
Hosts of BBC fundraiser include AJ Odudu and Paddy McGuinness but Lenny Henry is absent for first time
June 2022
Prince Charles and Camilla appear in special jubilee episode of EastEnders
The royal couple played cameo roles as guests of honour at a street party in the BBC soap’s Albert Square
May 2022
Charles and Camilla to guest star in EastEnders platinum jubilee special
How we made
How we made Human Traffic: ‘The first question I asked in the auditions was: have you ever taken drugs?’
January 2022
Danny Dyer to leave EastEnders after nine years, BBC confirms
Queen Vic landlord will leave Walford after signing a reported six-figure deal with Sky
October 2021
Down the rabbit hole
Degrees of separation: what connects Richard Osman to LeBron and Zendaya?
From Mamma Mia! to the NBA superstar, with a detour into Suede, we dive down the rabbit hole of the presenter and writer’s career
January 2021
Pass notes
A roll about and a curry? Danny Dyer's guide to bringing on labour
It may not be rooted in science but Danny Dyer is often right – so should expectant mothers be following his advice?
December 2020
Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
The week in radio and podcasts: Adrian Chiles; You and Yours; The Allusionist
While Adrian Chiles attempted to comfort his 5 Live audience after the nation’s festivities were all but cancelled, Winifred Robinson simply listened
November 2020
Tristram Kenton at the Guardian
Before they were famous: stars' early stage appearances – in pictures
Tristram Kenton captures the debuts and breakthroughs of famous future faces including Emily Blunt, Martin Freeman, John Boyega, Jodie Whittaker and many more
