Review: This is maybe the best Dickens film adaptation since David Lean

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25 years since Alan Partridge first appeared on screen, his creator explains why a divided nation needs him more than ever

Presenter’s shambling persona is perfect for our political moment, says Steve Coogan

The likes of Trump and Boris Johnson have made it impossible to satirise politics because politics is now satire

The big winner, Cold War, will barely scrape an Academy Award nomination

Nora Twomey’s ‘The Breadwinner’ misses out on animated feature gong in Seville

Jesse Armstrong’s new show targets America’s rich and powerful TV barons

Culture ministry ban comes amid renewed popularity of dictator in Russia

Satire an effort ‘to breed bad blood into social harmony reached in Russian society’ – official

Dunkirk blows away the competition

Swearing is one of life’s most joyous and creative releases – we must teach it early

Given the mortal terror, Armando Iannucci’s latest political satire is weirdly light on its feet

Armando Iannucci, one of the most feared satirist's in the business, takes on Stalin in a comedy of terrors

A year ago, the scabrous comedy Veep seemed like a sour joke about chaotic US politics. Now it returns like an escapist parallel universe

Panellists compete for scores measured in clicks and spread bait on Twitter in a quiz that looks to reclaim fake news for satire

Brendan O’Carroll show beats ‘The Office’, ‘The Thick of It’ and ‘Gavin & Stacey’ in poll

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‘With a general election now less than a year away, the referendum ads raise the wider issue of the effectiveness of political advertising’

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Stephen Fry got personal with zealots, and a timely fly-on-the-dashboard documentary ticked a lot of boxes

Had James Gandolfini lived longer, Tony Soprano would have been just one of his many other memorable character roles – as it is, the don of them all is enough