Television: As the curtains close, it is still not clear what the BBC had hoped to achieve
Steve Coogan
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Television: Drama seems uninterested in the institutional indifference that enabled the DJ’s years of sex abuse
Donald Clarke: Some documentaries stand accused as offering up sex abuse victims’ stories as ‘entertainment’ - but nobody is suggesting these films are fun
‘It’s the oldest journalistic trick in the book. Coogan has fallen for it hook, line and sinker’
Pleas to save Channel 4 took centre stage on Sunday night amid uncertainty over future
The Swedish actor stars in a new Viking epic full of revenge, nudity and Nordic berserkers
High Court agrees to hear two of eight challenges in late October or November
‘Bantz’? The truth is Brits can’t conceive of anyone not wanting to be British
Unthinkable: The original ‘sage-wannabes’ of Athens were considered slightly weird, a new book reveals
‘The whole history between the British and the Irish runs through me’, says Coogan
The comedian has applied for and expects his Irish passport soon. ‘That’s not a joke,’ he says
Winterbottom’s latest is not completely without merit but we deserve more creative satire
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