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Normal People

June 2024

  • Making moves … Luke Newton and Nicola Coughlan in Bridgerton.

    Not suitable for trains: how Bridgerton’s longest ever sex scene set commuters’ pulses racing

    Nicola Coughlan’s steamy start to the costume romp’s third season is the show’s most passionate yet – although it’s not the worst TV episode you could unwittingly watch on public transport…

February 2024

  • Paul Mescal

    Paul Mescal – from lockdown TV crush to emblem of sad-eyed masculinity

  • Not so normal people … Gleeson and Riseborough as Jack and Alice.

    TV review
    Alice & Jack review – Andrea Riseborough and Domhnall Gleeson have zero chemistry

October 2023

  • Alice Birch photographed at the National Theatre in London by Antonio Olmos for the Observer New Review, October 2023.

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Alice Birch: ‘When I’m writing, the banalities of motherhood such as head lice disappear’

    The Normal People screenwriter talks about growing up in a commune, heartbreaking plays, and ​the r​umours that she’s collaborating with Taylor Swift

January 2023

  • Paul Mescal, nominated for an Oscar for his performance in Aftersun in now playing Stanley in A Streetcar Named Desire in the West End.

    Paul Mescal’s latest role: global film star

    Irish actor, 26, has been nominated for an Oscar for Aftersun role but still coaches Gaelic football in home town

November 2022

  • Paul Mescal wears roll neck by prada.com and his own jewellery by cartier.com.

    ‘Masculinity can be expressed in many ways’: actor Paul Mescal on luck, sex scenes and risk taking

    Just two dizzying years after bringing the nation to a standstill in lockdown lodestone Normal People, Paul Mescal has become an indie film star everyone wants to work with. How did it happen? He talks to Aaron Hicklin

June 2022

  • Noma Dumezweni

    Cursed Child star Noma Dumezweni: ‘As a Black woman in acting, I’m fearless now’

    A landmark turn as Hermione in the Harry Potter play brought the actor to Disney and HBO’s attention. Now she’s playing godmother to a new generation of Black talent

May 2022

  • Sasha Lane and Alison Oliver

    ‘I felt, wow! I want this’: Sasha Lane and Alison Oliver on Conversations With Friends

    Age, class and sexualities collide in the new TV version of Rooney’s novel. Here, its young leads discuss landing their roles in this wonky love quadrangle and how it feels to follow Normal People

March 2022

  • The Simpsons … Marge is the glue that holds the family together.

    From Marge Simpson to Susan Kennedy: TV’s best mums!

    Television is full of lovely mothers, whether they’d fight a Demogorgon for their child, or put up with being married to Tony Soprano. It’s our guide to television’s best mums

February 2022

  • Daisy Edgar-Jones crouched down wearing a pink dress over green satin trousers

    Daisy Edgar-Jones on life after Normal People: ‘Should I be living it up more? Is this how our 20s are supposed to be?’

  • BBC One’s Cheaters

    Turn on or turn off: is there too much sex on UK television screens?

September 2021

  • Sally Rooney

    ‘Novel of the moment’: Sally Rooney’s third book hits the shelves

    Fans queue to meet author at Piccadilly launch event as orders and sales soar for Beautiful World, Where Are You

August 2021

  • Sally Rooney, the author of Normal People, the television dramatisation of which last year was a tearaway hit.

    Beyond normal: new novel brings Sally Rooney mania to bookshops across UK

    Many shops plan to open early for the arrival of Sally Rooney’s latest novel, Beautiful World, Where Are You next month
  • Sally Rooney photographed in Mount Falcon Estate in July 2021Sally Rooney photographed in Mount Falcon Estate in July 2021

    Sally Rooney on the hell of fame: ‘It doesn’t seem to work in any real way for anyone’

    At 30, the Normal People author is already the most talked-about novelist of her generation. As she readies her third novel, she’s bracing for more (unwanted) attention
  • Jodie Comer in Killing Eve.

    Britons turn to TV shows for lockdown fashion inspiration

    An increasing number of companies have started to announce official merchandise for fans

March 2021

  • (From left) Shira Haas in Unorthodox, Omar Sy in Lupin and Gillian Anderson in The Crown

    Six hours, 25 minutes
    From The Sopranos to The Crown: the big lockdown TV quiz

    Have you been bingeing on the biggest shows and box set hits of the past year? As our series on pandemic viewing continues, test your telly chops with 40 fiendish questions
  • Chef Ainsley Harriot, Daisy Edgar-Jones and Paul Mescal from Normal People and This Morning presenter Holly Willoughby.

    Six hours, 25 minutes
    We stan together: the wonderful world of Instagram TV fan pages

    Continuing our series on a year of lockdown viewing, we explore how social media has brought comfort to fans of British television – and offered an alternative to gossip
  • Composite of old TV sets with images of old TV shows (clockwise from top left) The Sopranos; Only Fools And Horses; Fawlty Towers; Relocation, Relocation; Buffy The Vampire Slayer

    ‘Grange Hill was bigger than Love Island’: the rise of nostalgia TV

    From The Sopranos to The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air, archive content has never been more popular. What do our choices say about the nation’s psyche?

February 2021

  • Sally Rooney

    Sally Rooney's Conversations with Friends TV adaptation cast revealed

  • Phoebe Dynevor and Regé-Jean Page

    Sex scene coaches could stir up difficult memories for female actors

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