Mackenzie Crook

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“Harrison, like other commentators, sees a reality television aesthetic at work in the personae of Nigel Farage, Boris Johnson and Donald Trump . . . Johnson thrived on Have I Got News for You.”
The Age of Static: Can we really understand a country by its TV?

“Via television it is possible to construct an illuminating alternative history of the last two decades,” promises Phil Harrison in his introduction t(...)

India Brown, Mackenzie Crook and Thierry Wickens in Worzel Gummidge. Photograph: Amanda Searle
Mackenzie Crook as Worzel Gummidge: ‘A lot of things don’t add up’

Eighteen years ago, Mackenzie Crook first arrived on our screens in an ill-fitting suit as Gareth Keenan, the assistant (to the) regional manager in T(...)

Director and writer Stephen Merchant at the TV Empire Awards in London last year. Photograph: John Phillips/Getty Images
The Office: It wasn’t a plan, here’s how we get famous. It was never that

There’s no missing Stephen Merchant. When The Office, which he co-wrote with Ricky Gervais, first arrived on BBC2 he was, to most viewers, no more tha(...)

Set against the Roman conquest of Britain, Britannia depicts warring, face-painted Celtic tribes in thrall to otherworldly druids, while Roman forces play politics. Photograph: Sky
Britannia: A half-baked substitute for Game of Thrones

As with any finite resource, the world has already begun to worry about what will happen when we run out of Game of Thrones. The question clearly trou(...)

David Morrissey as Aulus Plautius, the leader of the invading Roman army, in Britannia
Comparing Britannia with Game of Thrones? ‘We live with it’

You hear David Morrissey before you see him: his low, slow, booming voice is clearly an actor’s projection, speaking of Rada training and a theatre ca(...)

At home: Dodie Smith – who also wrote The Hundred and One Dalmatians – in 1934. Photograph: Sasha/Getty Images
Children’s Books: Still capturing the castle – and teenage readers – 65 years on
  • Books
  • November 30, 2013, 01:00

Dodie Smith’s I Capture the Castle, first published 65 years ago, remains one of the most acute and entertaining fictional portrayals of young adultho(...)