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items: Wallace & Gromit creator teases a potential return for Feathers McGraw – and reveals hilarious hidden Easter egg moments
items: Gen V stunt coordinator reveals some stunts were too extreme to do – even for The Boys
items: Blue Lights season 3 is scary and dangerous – with "really heavy" storylines
items: The secrets of casting the next breakout child star – from Adolescence to the new Harry Potter series
items: Chris O’Dowd calls for more regional accents on-screen amid Celtic language "resurgence"
items: "You can sit and stand on it": Meet the UK company making TV and film sets out of cardboard
items: NHS surgeon discusses performing surgery on TV for new Netflix series
items: Call the Midwife's Helen George exposes personal vulnerabilities in new show: "It's not glamorous"
items: Charlotte Ritchie is "desperate" to make a Ghosts movie
items: The friendly detective
items: You season 5 ending explained: Who lives, who dies and Joe Goldberg's fate
items: Adrian Scarborough on The Chelsea Detective's future – and why he won't do a Gavin & Stacey spin-off
items: Nicola Coughlan on why she's the "biggest fan" of "imperative and brilliant" intimacy coordinators
items: 'I never wanted to play Martha as a villain – she's nuanced'
items: 'I feel like TV is often catching up with real life'
items: 'I was 22 in the first series of Industry. It was incredibly exposing'
items: View from my sofa: Alison Hammond
items: 'I’d love to play a very unlikeable woman that has no redeeming qualities'
items: Anjana Vasan on We Are Lady Parts season 3 and why her biggest opportunities have all come from women
items: Marisa Abela on Industry, nudity double standards, and being guided by Lena Dunham on set
items: Jessica Gunning on Baby Reindeer success: "It took 17 years for the part of Martha to come around"
items: Nicola Coughlan considered quitting acting before landing Derry Girls role
items: Alison Hammond: 'My TV career could end tomorrow – but I’d be just as happy working in Tesco'
items: Baby Reindeer star says Paddington and Ghosts fans will love new Enid Blyton adaptation
items: Black Mirror star didn't know she was going to film cameo for season 7
items: View from my sofa: Mathew Baynton
items: Mathew Baynton explains his unusual Taskmaster outfit: "The shorts were really short"
items: You star Charlotte Ritchie didn't find out Kate's fate until late
items: View from my sofa: Katie Piper
items: 'We're all one bad day away from prison,' says presenter and activist Katie Piper

Wallace & Gromit creator teases a potential return for Feathers McGraw – and reveals hilarious hidden Easter egg moments
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date: 2025-12-13T08:00:53.000Z
creator: Laura Rutkowski
subject: Movies
subject: Christmas
subject: Exclusive
subject: News
subject: Wallace and Gromit (franchise)
description: Nick Park tells us what’s next for the evil bird after Vengeance Most Fowl.
encoded: Criminal mastermind Feathers McGraw, the penguin who cleverly disguises himself as a chicken, returned last Christmas in Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, much to the delight of fans. He first appeared in 1993’s Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers, where he stole the Blue Diamond. For his recent revenge, he escaped his prison (the zoo) and hacked Wallace’s smart gnome, Norbot, to create a whole army of evil minions to help reunite him with the precious gem. But he was once again thwarted by inventor Wallace and his loyal pooch Gromit, who swapped the diamond for a turnip. We last saw Feathers, outsmarted and deflated, escaping on the back of a train, but crucially, he was not caught by the police, which means he’s still at large, always a firm fixture on a “wanted” poster. Where exactly is he then, if not in prison? Talking exclusively to Radio Times, Wallace & Gromit creator Nick Park reveals, “He’s somewhere in Yorkshire. Well, who knows where he is? He doesn't let us know these things or what his plans are. A lot of people ask about Feathers McGraw, and the response since last Christmas has been brilliant. We're still reeling from it to be honest.” Does that mean we can expect Feathers to return with another cunning plan? Park teases, “Watch this space... who knows? He’s unpredictable.” With lots of unfinished business with his enemies Wallace and Gromit, he might come out of hiding when the time is right. Until then, you can catch plenty of Easter eggs when rewatching Vengeance Most Fowl, a big part of any Aardman Animations film. Remember when Feathers actually made a very brief cameo at the end of Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget?! Park, who directed Vengeance Most Fowl with Merlin Crossingham and co-created the story with Mark Burton, tells us some of his favourites. For instance, Feathers’s pet seal actually has a name. “No one would ever know this, because it was more of a joke we had among ourselves, but we called him Ronseal, which is, I guess, a ver…

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Gen V stunt coordinator reveals some stunts were too extreme to do – even for The Boys
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date: 2025-10-15T08:00:42.000Z
creator: Laura Rutkowski
subject: Sci-fi
subject: TV
subject: Amazon Prime Video
subject: Interview
subject: On demand
subject: Video
description: "I've been told a couple times, 'Dude, we can't do that!'"
encoded: Gen V and The Boys are known for their out-of-this-world stunt scenes full of explosions, blood, fight choreography and wirework. RadioTimes.com was invited to try out some stunt work for ourselves during a very special day of training with Gen V and The Boys’ Emmy-winning stunt coordinator John Koyama to learn a sequence from season 2 of Gen V, which you can watch above. During our exclusive chat, we ask Koyama how he continues to up the ante in the series that love to shock. He explains: “My team and I will break down the writing and have meetings with Eric Kripke [who created The Boys and developed Gen V] and the writers to make sure we’re still staying within the story, the tone and the characters. It's really specific what we do. “The creators of the shows have a lot of trust in me, so they let me have a big, open canvas where I can paint and do my thing. Sometimes I go too crazy and they're like, ‘Whoa.’ I've been told a couple times, ‘Dude, we can't do that!’ Now I know where the limit actually is on The Boys... I thought there were no limits!” Can he reveal where that limit is? “I can't really say, because sometimes we think of things and we’re told we can't do them, but we keep them in the bank, just in case... I don't want to spoil it – maybe they will be approved.” He can confirm, though, that the stunts have “definitely levelled up for the rest of Gen V – it just gets bigger and crazier in storytelling and action”. In season 2 of Gen V, there’s a new dean of Godolkin University, where young Supes learn to be heroes. Cipher's (Hamish Linklater) aim is to test the students’ powers to their limits, making them stronger than ever, with a particular interest in Marie Moreau’s (Jaz Sinclair) blood manipulation abilities. As for the final season of The Boys, set to be released in 2026, “It’s gonna be epic and absolutely crazy and constant,” says Koyama. “While shooting, our saying was, ‘All gas, no brakes.’ We were all gas all the way down to the floor, no brak…

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Blue Lights season 3 is scary and dangerous – with "really heavy" storylines
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date: 2025-09-29T10:01:18.000Z
creator: Laura Rutkowski
subject: Drama
subject: TV
subject: BBC
subject: BBC One
subject: Exclusive
subject: Interview
subject: Video
description: The cast of the Northern Irish police drama reveal what's coming up in the "emotionally-driven" new episodes.
encoded: As season 3 of the BBC’s BAFTA-winning drama Blue Lights returns, it continues to follow officers at the fictional Blackthorn Station in the Police Service of Northern Ireland, as they navigate life on the front line in modern-day Belfast. Speaking exclusively to Radio Times from the Blue Lights set in Belfast, the cast teased what’s in store for their characters as the team find themselves up against a new kind of threat – white collar crime. Watch the full interviews in our Behind the Screens video series above, where we visited Blackthorn Station and private members' club The Deanery. “They are developing in the police force and learning more about themselves as they progress in their professions. The crime story gets even more complex,” says Siân Brooke, who plays social worker turned police officer Grace Ellis. Martin McCann, who stars as Stevie Neill, Grace’s love interest on the force, adds: “It’s kind of scary, kind of dangerous.” We also revisit a storyline from season 1 involving Annie Conlon (Katherine Devlin), who received an anonymous death threat, forcing her to leave her family home for her and her mother’s safety. “The death threat is constantly in the background,” says Devlin. “There’s also a lot of stuff going on back home for Annie. She’s constantly juggling the idea of, is the job worth it? Is the sacrifice worth it?” “There’s some really, really heavy topics this season and some really, really heavy scenes for Annie that are very emotionally-driven, but I’m well-supported, and it’s been my favourite season. We have become so much more comfortable in the roles, and it’s lovely to go back into these characters again.” Devlin also praises the writing, led by Northern Irish screenwriters Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson, former journalists for Panorama and BBC Northern Ireland’s Spotlight. “I think the script will always be, and it should be, the most challenging thing about our job, because it’s always so important to dissect, to try things out, and …

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The secrets of casting the next breakout child star – from Adolescence to the new Harry Potter series
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date: 2025-09-15T10:47:43.000Z
creator: Laura Rutkowski
subject: Drama
subject: TV
subject: Interview
subject: Magazine
subject: Netflix
description: Stacey Burrows founded the Bradford-based Articulate drama school and casting agency, which secures significant film and television roles for children and young adults.
encoded: A shorter version of this article first appeared in Radio Times magazine. Articulate drama school and casting agency in Bradford, set up by Stacey Burrows, provided 150 child extras for Netflix hit Adolescence, which swept this year's Emmy Awards. Amélie Pease (who plays Lisa, Jamie’s sister), Fatima Bojang (Jade) and Austin Haynes (Fredo) also all came through the drama school – as did Austin’s brother Rocco, who is seen in the opening of 28 Years Later, and Rory Wilmot, who has been cast as Neville Longbottom in the new Harry Potter series in an eight-year deal. Here Burrows tells RT how she helps to nurture young talent. CHANGING CAREER In 2013, I was working as a barrister in county courts and magistrates’ courts across the North working on low-level cases, but I was doing a lot of public speaking in courtrooms. I was looking to give back, so I set up a public speaking school for kids one night a week and created a website for parents to track their children’s progress. CBeebies came across it and asked me to do a bit of vocal coaching on a series and I agreed as long as I could get some of the kids in as extras. Then they just kept calling me back asking for more children. I dropped the legal stuff and the agency really took off in 2015. SUPPORTING YOUNG PERFORMERS We've just opened up to adults, but our focus is on children and young performers up to the age of 25. We represent kids from all over the country, but a lot of them are generally from disadvantaged or diverse backgrounds. Yesterday, one of my actors couldn't afford to get to a recall, so we booked their train tickets and said, “Pay us back when you're rich and famous.” Our drama classes are about £8 a week, and we offer loads of scholarships. We also go to schools and run free workshops to teach people about what it's like to be an actor. WORKING WITH CASTING DIRECTORS We’ve got all the regulars on Waterloo Road and Emmerdale and a lot of people come to us for the gritty Northern dramas. A casting d…

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Chris O’Dowd calls for more regional accents on-screen amid Celtic language "resurgence"
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date: 2025-09-08T23:01:19.000Z
creator: Laura Rutkowski
subject: Comedy
subject: TV
subject: Magazine
description: The Irish star on romcoms and regional identity – and why his dog is a Puffin
encoded: This article first appeared in Radio Times magazine. What’s the view from your sofa? A dark-green wallpapered wall, then a big TV over the fireplace, which I know you’re not supposed to do. Our two dogs, Meatloaf and Puffin, and two cats, Boo and Myrtle, are usually on the sofa. We also have a tortoise called Sandwich. Puffin as in Puffin Rock, the kids’ animated series you narrate about the marine birds on the coast of Ireland? Yes, Puffin is named in tribute, because the kids [O’Dowd has two sons with his wife, writer/presenter Dawn O’Porter] were watching a lot of it at the time. It’s basically me reading them a story! What have you been watching lately? I really enjoyed Bad Sisters and Colin from Accounts. My kids just finished watching all of The Simpsons. It’s been fun explaining some of those jokes. I’m also in an episode! We watch old movies with them, but I made a mistake… they were too young for Arachnophobia. Luckily, the younger one said, “I need to stop watching this now.” He’s absolutely obsessed with insects, so he watches a lot of YouTube videos about how to build terrariums. We’ve got a little pond in the garden and he’s been going bananas for all these newts and salamanders, and now the frogs have started coming. Puffin Rock features regional Irish accents. Do you think we’re hearing them more often on screen? We’re going through such a great phase for Irish actors achieving success, and it’s becoming more and more normalised. Regional accents are important because it’s all about representation. There’s no point everybody just sounding like posh English people, because that’s not what everybody’s like. Can you speak any Irish? Bits, but not well. I have been using Duolingo since the Celtic revival has been happening. I think the resurgence is wonderful, because through the suppression of language we’ve lost so much knowledge about ourselves. The last century in Ireland was just about the state standing on its own two feet and the actual identity un…

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"You can sit and stand on it": Meet the UK company making TV and film sets out of cardboard
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date: 2025-08-18T10:20:38.000Z
creator: Laura Rutkowski
subject: Entertainment
subject: TV
subject: Channel 5
subject: Climate - Intentional focused content
subject: Interview
subject: Magazine
description: Chris Gilmour of Vectar Sets creates paper-based sets for film and TV that contain up to 90 per cent lower carbon than normal set materials.
encoded: A shorter version of this article first appeared in Radio Times magazine. Manchester-based Vectar Sets, established in 2022 by Chris Gilmour, creates paper-based sets for film and TV that contain up to 90 per cent lower carbon than normal set materials, and are 90 per cent lighter and 100 per cent recyclable. He’s worked on Coronation Street, Newsround, Alien: Romulus and pre-school series Treehouse, which was filmed at RD Studios, a fully sustainable production facility. Here he tells RT how he got into it, and why it matters. PAPER ARTIST I did a course called Art in Social Context at the University of Bristol. I was doing workshops with kids and mental health groups and that’s where working with cardboard started. It’s a very friendly, accessible material. I lived in Italy for a long time and was a fine art sculptor working with galleries and museums around the world. I used to do a lot of mechanical sculpture, and I was using cardboard to make prototypes – then I just started using cardboard for all of it! I’ve made life-sized motorcycles, bikes, cars…. I moved back to the UK in 2016, and after one Covid lockdown, I was asked to do an Old Spice advert. There was a shortage of wood in the UK, so we were trying to find a solution that was quick and cheap. I’m currently doing my PhD on how you can use paper materials to make film sets. ALL ABOARD There’s obviously a lot of interest in sustainability in film and TV, but it tends to be on lighting, power, transport, and reusable cups, and then it kind of ends there. Most film and TV sets are made from MDF (medium density fibre board) or plywood. MDF is made of a wood pulp, and it's got formaldehyde and resins in it, and it's completely unrecyclable. The dust is toxic and it's really heavy, but it's cheap. After filming, the sets are smashed up and put in a skip. There’s at least a tonne of set waste for a one-day advert, and for big TV shows and films, that’s 700 or 800 tonnes. A manufacturer in Sweden makes what we …

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NHS surgeon discusses performing surgery on TV for new Netflix series
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date: 2025-07-14T23:01:29.000Z
creator: Laura Rutkowski
subject: Documentaries
subject: TV
subject: Interview
subject: Magazine
subject: Netflix
description: In Critical: Between Life and Death, cameras follow the work of NHS trauma teams.
encoded: A shorter version of this article first appeared in Radio Times magazine. In the engrossing and shocking new Netflix documentary series Critical: Between Life and Death, 40 cameras are embedded for 21 days across the entire London Major Trauma System, which includes major trauma centres at The Royal London Hospital, St George's Hospital, King's College Hospital and St Mary's Hospital. Mr Ibraheim El-Daly, 41, who grew up in northwest London, has been a Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon at King's College Hospital for five years. Here he tells RT how it feels to be filmed on the job. DRILLING DOWN I studied at City St George's, University of London, and during my rotations, I fell in love with orthopaedic surgery. I liked the power tools – the screwdriver, mallet, and my favourite, the drill! I did my five-year orthopaedic training at the Royal London Hospital. I then spent a year at Pitié-Salpêtrière University Hospital, a major trauma centre in Paris. I came back to a job at King’s College and it was very fast-paced. I thrive on stress. THE NHS GOES GLOBAL I appeared in Channel 4’s Emergency and 24 hours in A&E. The same production company behind those shows told us Netflix loved them and would like to do their own medical series. With Netflix it’s a great opportunity to expose the NHS to the world. TEXTING ABOUT TRAUMA A lot of the problems you hear in the media about the NHS are true, like trying to get an appointment, but our major trauma network is second to none. We even have WhatsApp groups with all the major trauma surgeons – there’s a national pelvic group and a national upper limb group. We post cases and discuss them. I feel sad that we don't promote ourselves, because we have such amazing experience and expertise that we should be selling our services. The NHS could benefit by going to countries and helping them create the same level of trauma care that we deliver for citizens of the UK. ON-CALL FOR THE CAMERA The camera crew followed me everywher…

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Call the Midwife's Helen George exposes personal vulnerabilities in new show: "It's not glamorous"
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date: 2025-07-07T23:01:14.000Z
creator: Laura Rutkowski
subject: Entertainment
subject: TV
subject: Interview
subject: ITV
subject: Magazine
description: In the new ITV1 series Shark! Celebrity Infested Waters, the star faces her fears.
encoded: A shorter version of this article first appeared in Radio Times magazine. Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water… well, it is! Or at least, that’s what a batch of TV stars hope to prove in the new ITV1 series Shark! Celebrity Infested Waters. Its aim is to undo the damage Jaws did in demonising the sharp-toothed creatures as the film celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. In the series, Helen George, Lucy Punch, Sir Lenny Henry, Ross Noble, Rachel Riley, Ade Adepitan and Dougie Poynter get up close and personal with bull sharks in a diving cage, while interacting with hammerheads, stingrays and more on the islands of Bimini in the Bahamas, which is home to seven to ten different shark species. As the breeds get bigger and more dangerous across five episodes, they work themselves up to the ultimate challenge: diving with tiger sharks. Although the clue is in the name of the show, Call the Midwife star George didn’t really think they’d be swimming with sharks, because “it’s TV” and “who would actually do that?” When she agreed to take part, she was not only scared of sharks, but had a phobia of even putting her head under the water – something she hadn’t done for 15 years. “I'm quite gung-ho as a person, so I thought I’d be fine, but I genuinely wasn’t,” she says. “At that point, the sharks were small fry. It was more about the water!” In episode 1, she explains that when she was young, she went to a swimming party, and as she was trying to resurface from underwater, foam mats on the top prevented her from getting out. But she signed up for the show for her daughters, aged three and seven. “I wanted to get more confident for them. They were impressed I even went in the first place, because they didn't think I would. I was really terrified of the water, so I might be a bit embarrassed about some of the scenes! “I’m an actress and I play other people’s vulnerabilities, so playing my own is always terrifying. I’m ugly crying, there’s no hair and ma…

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Charlotte Ritchie is "desperate" to make a Ghosts movie
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date: 2025-05-19T23:01:44.000Z
creator: Laura Rutkowski
subject: Comedy
subject: TV
subject: Magazine
description: The actor speaks to Radio Times about the hit sitcom's future, plus new thriller Code of Silence.
encoded: This article first appeared in Radio Times magazine. What's the view from your sofa? My boyfriend insisted on getting a big TV. His excuse was that I was away filming for five months, so he needed something to focus on. There’s also a PlayStation 4. I’ve always loved video games. On a beautiful summer’s evening, all the normal people are outside having pints, and I’ll spend six hours being chased by horrendous monsters. What have you been watching? I’ve been really enjoying the Apple TV+ series The Studio, where Seth Rogen plays a guy who’s promoted to head developer of a film studio. I also started watching The Royle Family again. I’m not really concerned with endings. If anything, I avoid them. I didn’t finish some of my favourite books. I’m sure I could be psychoanalysed and it would be quite revealing, but things aren’t tied up in life, so why should they be in art? You’re best known for your comedy roles in Ghosts and Fresh Meat, but You is a psychological thriller and Code of Silence is a crime drama. Was it challenging taking on different genres? Being more of a sitcom actor gave me a definite sense of imposter syndrome. You feel that you’ve got to earn your stripes a bit. I spoke to a bunch of older actors recently who said it only gets worse. I think back to the confidence I had early doors – the less you know, the better you think you are. In You, you play wealthy CEO Kate Lockwood, and she always looks perfect. Could you relate to that? It’s an image that is so completely unsustainable. Some people sustain it, but I can’t do that – it’s hours of work, prep, money and time. You have to work out what matters to you. I have this professional team that spend about two hours making me look like that, then I have to deal with the reality of myself, taking out the hair extensions, taking the heels off. But then I can breathe, and wear clothes I can spill my coffee down. The hardest thing is seeing people double-take me in the street: "Is that her? She doesn’t lo…

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The friendly detective
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creator: Laura Rutkowski
subject: App
subject: App features
subject: App archive 100
description: Adrian Scarborough doesn’t want to outstay his welcome on TV, but would he do a Gavin & Stacey spin-off series?
encoded: This article was first published in Radio Times magazine in May 2025. Add The Chelsea Detective to your watchlist Adrian Scarborough has been acting for more than three decades – in television, film, radio and theatre. The accomplished character actor has played Villanelle’s violent and sinister handler Raymond in Killing Eve and Dawn’s awkward yet well-meaning husband Peter in Gavin & Stacey. He has two best supporting actor Olivier Awards and has appeared in acclaimed films including The History Boys and The King’s Speech. But it took until 2022, when The Chelsea Detective first aired, for Scarborough to be cast in a lead role on screen. Scarborough was actually ready to cut back on television work, but the part of DI Max Arnold convinced him to change his mind. “I never expected to go down this road,” says the 57-year-old who is now promoting the third series of his detective drama. “Playing the lead isn’t a responsibility that I really enjoy. People start looking at you like you must know the answer, because you’ve been there from the beginning.” Arnold and his partner DS Layla Walsh (Vanessa Emme) solve cases in the London borough of Chelsea, and in the new series’ first episode, a body is found in an allotment. Scarborough enjoyed watching John Thaw in Inspector Morse growing up and says Arnold has a bit of “bumbling Columbo” about him. It’s cosy crime at its finest. There’s no swearing, no sex and no bloodshed. “It appeals, because there’s quite a few people out there, myself included, that don’t like too much gore,” says Scarborough. “The crimes themselves are almost irrelevant. The most interesting bit is the process of working them out.” Scarborough was born in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire. His father was a teacher and his mother was a lay worker at the local Methodist church, who inspired his love of theatre by taking him at a very young age. “I wanted to be a dancer, but it was very obvious from about the age of eight or nine I didn’t have the physique…

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You season 5 ending explained: Who lives, who dies and Joe Goldberg's fate
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date: 2025-05-13T14:11:24.000Z
creator: Laura Rutkowski
subject: Drama
subject: TV
subject: Netflix
subject: On demand
description: Major spoilers below!
encoded: *Warning: This article contains full spoilers for the final episode of You season 5.* You's final season has come to a dramatic end, revealing the fate of serial killer Joe Goldberg after five chapters of murder, obsessions, cover-ups and stalking – and he finally gets what he deserves. Things were looking very different for Joe at the start of the new season: his new partner Kate Lockwood (Charlotte Ritchie) had managed to use her newly inherited wealth to clear his name, enabling them to live a peaceful life together. But that all changed when Joe set his sights on new cast member Bronte (Madeline Brewer), an employee at his bookstore. Chaos ensued as Joe's darker side emerged once again, and Kate was left questioning whether she really knew who he was, while Bronte revealing she was duping him and was part of a Reddit community that wanted to take him down. We knew it was going to be a wild ride of a finale, but nothing could've quite prepared us for the heart-racing battle to the death that ensued between Bronte and Joe, as Bronte continued to wrestle with her true feelings and prospective future with a serial killer. Wondering who succeeded in this game of cat and mouse between Bronte and Joe, and whether anyone met a tragic fate? Read on for a full breakdown of the fates of each character in the final ever episode of Netflix's You, including some exclusive reflections on the finale from actress Charlotte Ritchie herself. You season 5 ending explained: What happened to everyone in the finale? Does Joe get caught in You season 5? Yes, Joe Goldberg is ultimately incarcerated for his crimes. After Maddie (Anna Camp) burns down Mooney's with her own sister Kate (Charlotte Ritchie) and Joe inside, Bronte came back to rescue Kate, but as she was seemingly dead and with Joe still alive, she ended up bringing up Joe to safety, where he popped the big question. The finale starts with the pair on a road trip just outside New York, driving round to find somewhere to rest …

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Adrian Scarborough on The Chelsea Detective's future – and why he won't do a Gavin & Stacey spin-off
type: item
date: 2025-05-12T23:01:36.000Z
creator: Laura Rutkowski
subject: Drama
subject: TV
subject: Magazine
description: Scarborough chatted exclusively to Radio Times magazine about the return of the U&Drama series.
encoded: This article first appeared in Radio Times magazine. Adrian Scarborough has been acting for more than three decades – in television, film, radio and theatre. The accomplished character actor has played Villanelle’s violent and sinister handler Raymond in Killing Eve and Dawn’s awkward yet well-meaning husband Peter in Gavin & Stacey. He has two best supporting actor Olivier Awards and has appeared in acclaimed films including The History Boys and The King’s Speech. But it took until 2022, when The Chelsea Detective first aired, for Scarborough to be cast in a lead role on screen. Scarborough was actually ready to cut back on television work, but the part of DI Max Arnold convinced him to change his mind. “I never expected to go down this road,” says the 57-year-old who is now promoting the third series of his detective drama. “Playing the lead isn’t a responsibility that I really enjoy. People start looking at you like you must know the answer, because you’ve been there from the beginning.” Arnold and his partner DS Layla Walsh (Vanessa Emme) solve cases in the London borough of Chelsea, and in the new season’s first episode, a body is found in an allotment. Scarborough enjoyed watching John Thaw in Inspector Morse growing up and says Arnold has a bit of “bumbling Columbo” about him. It’s cosy crime at its finest. There’s no swearing, no sex and no bloodshed. “It appeals, because there’s quite a few people out there, myself included, that don’t like too much gore,” says Scarborough. “The crimes themselves are almost irrelevant. The most interesting bit is the process of working them out.” Scarborough was born in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire. His father was a teacher and his mother was a lay worker at the local Methodist church, who inspired his love of theatre by taking him at a very young age. “I wanted to be a dancer, but it was very obvious from about the age of eight or nine I didn’t have the physique,” he says. “As soon as I saw that acting was a job you coul…

Nicola Coughlan on why she's the "biggest fan" of "imperative and brilliant" intimacy coordinators
type: item
date: 2025-05-09T07:00:33.000Z
creator: Laura Rutkowski
subject: Drama
subject: TV
subject: Exclusive
subject: News
description: The Bridgerton and Big Mood star discusses her experience filming sexual scenes.
encoded: Nicola Coughlan, who we know and love for her roles in Derry Girls and Bridgerton, has received her first BAFTA nomination for Female Performance in a Comedy for Big Mood. She stars as Maggie, who has bipolar disorder, meaning she experiences periods of intense highs (mania) and intense lows (depression). She’s been best friends with Eddie (Lydia West, It’s a Sin) for 10 years, but recently their relationship has become strained. For half of her time filming Big Mood, Coughlan was also shooting the third season of Bridgerton. She stars as Penelope Featherington, who reveals her secret identity to the Ton as Lady Whistledown, the author of an anonymous gossip sheet. There are also plenty of steamy scenes with Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton), her long-time crush who she ends up marrying. Coughlan even shared an Instagram photo in June 2024 of them both next to a piece of furniture they broke during a sex scene! Does she feel like she has more agency doing intimate scenes with an intimacy coordinator? "I'm the biggest fan of intimacy coordinators. They’re imperative and brilliant. Lizzy Talbot, who worked on Bridgerton, was so phenomenal," Coughlan told Radio Times exclusively. She added: "It's really interesting, because you see a lot of backlash from actors of an older generation saying they don't get why intimacy coordinators are there or why they want them. It's not poo-pooing the way that things used to be done or to shame anyone, but it just makes you feel so much safer and in control. "It's dealt with like a stunt, so it's left in your hands, but you never feel like things are going to go awry or that you don't know what's going to happen next. You leave the set feeling empowered and good, which is what everyone should leave their workday feeling like. There are no blurred lines, it's not scary." The highly anticipated fourth season of Bridgerton likely won’t be released until 2026. Luke Thompson’s Benedict Bridgerton and his love story with maid Sophie Baek (Yer…

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'I never wanted to play Martha as a villain – she's nuanced'
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encoded: Add the Bafta Television Awards and Baby Reindeer to your watchlist It’s been a little over a year since drama Baby Reindeer was released on Netflix, and actor Jessica Gunning has been riding the wave of its success. She’s picked up an Emmy, Golden Globe, SAG Award and Royal Television Society Programme Award for her portrayal of stalker Martha Scott. Now she could be adding a Bafta to that already groaning shelf. Gunning is smiley and giggly and uses the word “special” a lot to describe her involvement in Baby Reindeer – with good reason. It has been seen by 252 million viewers, making it one of the most-watched Netflix shows of all time. It came out of nowhere, based on Richard Gadd’s one-man play of the same name from 2019, and then suddenly, it was all anyone was talking about. So, it might seem like Gunning is an overnight success, but she has been working for the better part of 18 years. The 38-year-old from Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, has appeared in David Mitchell and Robert Webb’s Back, the film Pride and Stephen Merchant’s The Outlaws, where she was also in the writers’ room. She used to give talks at her drama school, Rose Bruford College in London, to third-year students. “I’d tell them, ‘Think about the actors who you admire – they didn’t necessarily graduate from drama school and work straight away. The things you love them in are probably things they did in their 30s or 40s. These things do take time.’ “It took 17 years for the part of Martha to come around,” she continues. It’s one of several answers she starts with, “I’ve said previously,” which is understandable, as she’s been interviewed about Baby Reindeer a lot. Although not all coverage since its release has been positive. Fiona Harvey, who claims to be the real Martha, has filed a $170 million defamation lawsuit against Netflix in the US, with a court date set for 6 May. Did Gunning ever consider “the real Martha”? “As soon as I read the scripts, I was just playing a character. I never would ha…

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'I feel like TV is often catching up with real life'
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description: Anjana Vasan is nominated for Female Performance in a Comedy in We Are Lady Parts
encoded: Add the Bafta Television Awards and We Are Lady Parts to your watchlist Indian-Singaporean actor Anjana Vasan, 38, plays lead guitarist Amina in We Are Lady Parts, about an all-female Muslim punk band. She’s also starred in Black Mirror, the film Wicked Little Letters and as Stella in a stage production of A Streetcar Named Desire, for which she won an Olivier Award. How does it feel to be nominated for a Bafta? We Are Lady Parts is a very special show and it changed my life. It was the first time I played a lead woman of colour on TV – but it’s not just me, it’s five women of colour leading the show, and that’s rare. I feel like TV is often catching up with real life. We Are Lady Parts isn’t the first time punk music has been represented, it’s not the first time women of colour have done punk, but there’s real power in seeing it on screen. How important is it for the industry to trust diverse voices and female writers like Nida Manzoor (the creator, writer and director of We Are Lady Parts)? People can be quite scared to make something different, but audiences aren’t scared. The biggest opportunities I’ve ever had have come from women. Bisha K Ali co-wrote the Black Mirror episode Demon 79 with Charlie Brooker, and her presence was a big part of how I came into the picture, and the same with Nida. Any news on We Are Lady Parts series three? I will ask Nida when I see her at the Baftas! I message her all the time – the WhatsApp group is still going very strong. The best thing that has come from the show is I found so many sisters that I never had growing up.

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'I was 22 in the first series of Industry. It was incredibly exposing'
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description: Marisa Abela is nominated for Leading Actress for Industry.
encoded: Add the Bafta Television Awards and Industry to your watchlist The 28-year-old stars as investment banker Yasmin Kara-Hanani in finance drama Industry. She also recently played Amy Winehouse in the film Back to Black and appeared in Steven Soderbergh’s Black Bag. How does it feel to be nominated? I found out the news on set while filming Industry, so it felt like a win for all of us. Getting a third series of the show was such a triumph. I’m currently filming series four and I’ll still be filming when the Baftas happen, so to take the win back to everyone would be really fun. It’s definitely validating. It feels great that people appreciate your work. Are the best roles in TV now female? No, but I don’t think men’s parts are necessarily better, either. There is much more equity than there was, but there’s that quote: “When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.” There was always this idea that people didn’t want to sit down and watch a show about women, but [the HBO drama] Big Little Lies changed the game. Does working with female directors make a big difference? I was 22 when I did the first series of Industry and it was incredibly exposing in a lot of ways. The way the public deal with women’s bodies on screen over men’s will always be different and when women are asked to do a lot on screen, they need a woman guiding them through that process. There were lots of articles about how naked I got, so having Lena [Dunham] talking me through that was really important. It was the same working with Sam [Taylor-Johnson] on Back to Black, because that story was told through a very specific female lens. With the arrival of intimacy coordinators, do you feel like you have more agency? Yeah, definitely – I’m fluent in intimacy coordinator language! There are people now starting out on Industry who are as young as me when I joined and I can say, “If you don’t know what you want to ask for, I’m more than happy to talk to you about what helped me.” It’s …

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View from my sofa: Alison Hammond
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description: Her career may be on a high but she’d be just as happy swapping telly for Tesco
encoded: Add Alison Hammond's Big Weekend to your watchlist What’s the view from your sofa? Well, babes, let me set the scene… my sofa is massive. I’m talking a sink-in-and-you-don’t-get-up-for-hours sort of sofa. It’s a lovely rich brown, so cosy. My son Aidan and I chose it, because he normally brings about ten mates over, and they could never fit before. Right above the television, there’s a beautiful picture of my late mum, so she’s always watching TV with me. Who controls the remote? I’m the queen of the scroll. If Aidan is around, I might let him have a little go – it depends if he’s making the tea. What have you been watching? Black Mirror series seven properly messed with my head, but I loved it. I’m obsessed with Love Is Blind and Married at First Sight: Australia, and am catching up on Celebrity Big Brother. You appeared in Big Brother in 2002. How has reality TV changed? There was no social media. You didn’t have that instant judgement from people, apart from when you came out and heard people clapping or booing. Now people tell you how they feel online. You also appeared on Celebrity Fit Club in 2004, which doesn’t feel like a show that would be made now. It was a different time back then, wasn’t it? All about body shaming. I remember doing Hole in the Wall [in 2009] wearing that silver outfit and they didn’t care that we didn’t look great. They just let us wear it. I’m glad that times have changed and we’re embracing everybody, no matter what they look like. In your new show, Alison Hammond’s Big Weekend, you spend 48 hours with celebrities including Sir Lenny Henry, Jimmy Carr and Mel B. How do you get them to open up? The fact they’ve said yes to do my show, they know we’re going to go deep with the chat. I would never ask a question that I wouldn’t want to be asked myself, but I’m quite an open book. As long as it’s respectful and they’re comfortable, I’ll ask anything. And even if they’re not comfortable, sometimes you have to go there. I ask all the questio…

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'I’d love to play a very unlikeable woman that has no redeeming qualities'
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description: Nicola Coughlan is nominated for Female Performance in a Comedy for Big Mood
encoded: Add the Bafta Television Awards and Big Mood to your watchlist Derry Girls has won several Baftas and Bridgerton has received nominations, but as brilliant as Nicola Coughlan is in both, she’s surprisingly never received an individual Bafta nod – until now, for Big Mood. The dark comedy is about the friendship between Eddie (It’s a Sin’s Lydia West) and Maggie (Coughlan), who has bipolar disorder, and it’s essentially been in the works for 16 years – ever since Coughlan and writer Camilla Whitehill met at the Oxford School of Drama. “Camilla made me laugh so much. I remember seeing her first short play, and in that moment, I knew she was going to be famous,” Coughlan says. “I was never asked to be in Big Mood. It was more, ‘I’m making a show, and you’re gonna be in it.’ I was like, ‘Right, OK!’ It was never a doubt.” When Coughlan, 38, left drama school, she remembers roles for women being mainly “someone’s girlfriend, or the woman who sits behind a desk”. She found it difficult to find work in her 20s and moved to London three times in four years, each time returning to her parents in Galway, Ireland. “There were definitely lots of moments where I thought, ‘Should I quit?’ It’s a difficult industry to break into and I didn’t have any connections or money. It didn’t seem sensible for me to keep going, but I got Derry Girls at 30, which was an amazing turning point.” Some of the Bridgerton shoot crossed over with Big Mood, with Coughlan filming one during the week and the other at the weekend. It took her two hours to get ready for Bridgerton, whereas no wigs or make-up were required to play Maggie. “We didn’t want to present mental illness in a pretty way. In the scenes where Maggie’s meant to look terrible, I said, ‘I have to look terrible. If she has dirty hair, my hair will be dirty.’” She adds, “I think we’re getting braver with what’s represented on television. There’s certain things that have broken out, like Baby Reindeer and Adolescence, but it also strikes …

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Anjana Vasan on We Are Lady Parts season 3 and why her biggest opportunities have all come from women
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date: 2025-05-06T14:51:32.000Z
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description: The hilarious and zany Channel 4 sitcom follows an all-female, all-Muslim punk rock band.
encoded: This article first appeared in Radio Times magazine. Indian-Singaporean actor Anjana Vasan, 38, plays lead guitarist Amina in We Are Lady Parts, about an all-female Muslim punk band. She’s also starred in Black Mirror, the film Wicked Little Letters and as Stella in a stage production of A Streetcar Named Desire, for which she won an Olivier Award. How does it feel to be nominated for a BAFTA? We Are Lady Parts is a very special show and it changed my life. It was the first time I played a lead woman of colour on TV – but it’s not just me, it’s five women of colour leading the show, and that’s rare. I feel like TV is often catching up with real life. We Are Lady Parts isn’t the first time punk music has been represented, it’s not the first time women of colour have done punk, but there’s real power in seeing it on screen. How important is it for the industry to trust diverse voices and female writers like Nida Manzoor (the creator, writer and director of We Are Lady Parts)? People can be quite scared to make something different, but audiences aren’t scared. The biggest opportunities I’ve ever had have come from women. Bisha K Ali co-wrote the Black Mirror episode Demon 79 with Charlie Brooker, and her presence was a big part of how I came into the picture, and the same with Nida. Any news on We Are Lady Parts season 3? I will ask Nida when I see her at the BAFTAs! I message her all the time – the WhatsApp group is still going very strong. The best thing that has come from the show is I found so many sisters that I never had growing up. The latest issue of Radio Times is out now – subscribe here. We Are Lady Parts is available to stream on Channel 4. Check out more of our Comedy coverage or visit our TV Guide and Streaming Guide to find out what's on. For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to The Radio Times Podcast.

Marisa Abela on Industry, nudity double standards, and being guided by Lena Dunham on set
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date: 2025-05-06T14:39:13.000Z
creator: Laura Rutkowski
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subject: TV
subject: Magazine
description: The star spoke to Radio Times magazine for the new BAFTA special issue.
encoded: This article first appeared in Radio Times magazine. The 28-year-old stars as investment banker Yasmin Kara-Hanani in finance drama Industry. She also recently played Amy Winehouse in the film Back to Black and appeared in Steven Soderbergh’s Black Bag. How does it feel to be nominated? I found out the news on set while filming Industry, so it felt like a win for all of us. Getting a third series of the show was such a triumph. I’m currently filming series four and I’ll still be filming when the BAFTAs happen, so to take the win back to everyone would be really fun. It’s definitely validating. It feels great that people appreciate your work. Are the best roles in TV now female? No, but I don’t think men’s parts are necessarily better, either. There is much more equity than there was, but there’s that quote: “When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.” There was always this idea that people didn’t want to sit down and watch a show about women, but [the HBO drama] Big Little Lies changed the game. Does working with female directors make a big difference? I was 22 when I did the first series of Industry and it was incredibly exposing in a lot of ways. The way the public deal with women’s bodies on screen over men’s will always be different and when women are asked to do a lot on screen, they need a woman guiding them through that process. There were lots of articles about how naked I got, so having Lena [Dunham] talking me through that was really important. It was the same working with Sam [Taylor-Johnson] on Back to Black, because that story was told through a very specific female lens. With the arrival of intimacy coordinators, do you feel like you have more agency? Yeah, definitely – I’m fluent in intimacy coordinator language! There are people now starting out on Industry who are as young as me when I joined and I can say, "If you don’t know what you want to ask for, I’m more than happy to talk to you about what helped me." It’s always goo…

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Jessica Gunning on Baby Reindeer success: "It took 17 years for the part of Martha to come around"
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date: 2025-05-06T11:02:21.000Z
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description: Baby Reindeer star Jessica Gunning opens up to Radio Times magazine about her BAFTA nomination.
encoded: This article first appeared in Radio Times magazine. It’s been a little over a year since hit series Baby Reindeer was released on Netflix, and star Jessica Gunning has been riding the wave of its success. She’s picked up an Emmy, Golden Globe, SAG Award and Royal Television Society Programme Award for her portrayal of stalker Martha Scott, based on writer and creator Richard Gadd’s real-life experience. Now she could be adding a BAFTA to that already groaning shelf, in what she calls her “pinch-me” year. Gunning is smiley and giggly and uses the word “special” a lot to describe her involvement in Baby Reindeer – with good reason. Since it launched, it has been seen by 252.1 million viewers, making it one of the most-watched Netflix shows of all time. It came out of nowhere, with a strange title based on Gadd’s one-man play of the same name from 2019, and then suddenly, it was all anyone was talking about. “I don't think you ever do a job imagining loads of people are going to watch it, or you're going to be nominated for awards,” Gunning says. She mentions the types of people who have approached her – from teenagers to 80-year-olds and even famous fans including Kathy Bates. “When you meet people you’ve admired for years and they know your name, you’re like ‘Huh?’ It’s all just been nuts.” It might seem like Gunning was an overnight success, but in reality, she’s been working for the better part of 18 years, although she’s probably most recognisable for supporting roles and comedic parts. The 38-year-old from Holmfirth, West Yorkshire appeared in David Mitchell and Robert Webb’s Back, the film Pride, and Stephen Merchant’s The Outlaws, where she was also in the writers’ room. She used to do talks at her drama school, Rose Bruford College in London, to students in their third year wanting to be actors. “I'd tell them, ‘Think about the actors who you admire – like Olivia Colman or Idris Elba – they didn’t necessarily graduate from drama school and work straight away.…

Nicola Coughlan considered quitting acting before landing Derry Girls role
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date: 2025-05-06T10:18:11.000Z
creator: Laura Rutkowski
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description: "Television is in an incredibly difficult position now, because there's more competition than ever for eyes, and it's really hard to launch a new show."
encoded: This article first appeared in Radio Times magazine. Derry Girls has won several BAFTAs and Bridgerton has been nominated for many, but as brilliant as Nicola Coughlan is in both, she’s surprisingly never received an individual BAFTA nod – until now for Big Mood. The dark comedy is about the friendship between Eddie (It’s a Sin’s Lydia West) and Maggie (Coughlan), who has bipolar disorder, and it's essentially been in the works for 16 years – ever since Coughlan and writer Camilla Whitehill met at the Oxford School of Drama. “Camilla made me laugh so much. I remember seeing her first short play, and in that moment, I knew she was going to be famous,” Coughlan says. “I was never asked to be in Big Mood. It was just sort of like, ‘I'm making a show, and you're gonna be in it.’ I was like, ‘Right, okay!’ It was never a doubt.” When Coughlan, 38, left drama school, she remembers roles for women being mainly “someone's girlfriend or the woman with two lines who sat behind a desk”. She found it difficult to find work in her 20s. In four years, she moved to London three times, each time returning to her parents in Galway, Ireland. “There were definitely lots of moments where I thought, ‘Should I quit?’ It's a difficult industry to break into and I didn't have any connections or money. It didn't seem sensible for me to keep going, but I got Derry Girls at 30, which was an amazing turning point.” Coughlan was shooting Bridgerton for half of Big Mood, filming one during the week and one at the weekend. It took her two hours to get ready for the former, whereas no wigs or makeup were required to play Maggie. “We didn't want to present mental illness in a pretty way. People can see it as something very glamorous, and it can be depicted completely wrong. In the scenes where Maggie's meant to look terrible, I was like, ‘I have to look terrible. If she has dirty hair, my hair will be dirty.’” She adds, “I think we’re getting braver with what’s represented on television. I hope the…

Alison Hammond: 'My TV career could end tomorrow – but I’d be just as happy working in Tesco'
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date: 2025-05-06T09:38:58.000Z
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subject: Magazine
description: The beloved TV presenter has a new series coming to BBC One.
encoded: This article first appeared in Radio Times magazine. What's the view from your sofa? Well, babes, let me set the scene… my sofa is massive. I'm talking a sink-in-and-you-don't-get-up-for-hours sort of sofa. It's a lovely rich brown, so cosy. My son Aidan and I chose it, because he normally brings about 10 mates over, and they could never fit before. Right above the television, there's a beautiful picture of my late mum, so she's always watching TV with me. Who controls the remote? I'm the queen of the scroll. If Aidan is around, I might let him have a little go – it depends if he's making the tea. What have you been watching? Black Mirror season 7 properly messed with my head, but I loved it. I'm obsessed with Love Is Blind and Married at First Sight Australia, and am catching up on Celebrity Big Brother. You appeared in Big Brother in 2002. How has reality TV changed? There was no social media. You didn't have that instant judgement from people, apart from when you came out and heard people clapping or booing. Now people tell you how they feel online. You also appeared on Celebrity Fit Club in 2004, which doesn’t feel like a show that would be made now. It was a different time back then, wasn't it? All about body shaming. I remember doing Hole in the Wall [in 2009] wearing that silver outfit and they didn't care that we didn’t look great. They just let us wear it. I'm glad that times have changed and we're embracing everybody, no matter what they look like. In your new show, Alison Hammond’s Big Weekend, you spend 48 hours with celebrities including Sir Lenny Henry, Jimmy Carr and Mel B. How do you get them to open up? The fact they've said yes to do my show, they know we're going to go deep with the chat. I would never ask a question that I wouldn’t want to be asked myself, but I'm quite an open book. As long as it's respectful and they’re comfortable, I'll ask anything. And even if they’re not comfortable, sometimes you have to go there. I ask all the questions y…

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Baby Reindeer star says Paddington and Ghosts fans will love new Enid Blyton adaptation
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date: 2025-04-30T14:39:59.000Z
creator: Laura Rutkowski
subject: Movies
subject: Exclusive
subject: News
description: Jessica Gunning will next appear in The Magic Faraway Tree.
encoded: Jessica Gunning gained widespread acclaim for her role as stalker Martha Scott in Baby Reindeer, based on writer, creator and star Richard Gadd’s real-life experience and adapted from his autobiographical one-man show. Gadd plays a version of himself as struggling comedian Donny Dunn, who meets Martha at the London pub he works in. She grows very attached to him and begins to stalk him online and in person. Gunning has won an Emmy, Golden Globe, SAG Award and Royal Television Society Programme Award, plus many more, for the role. Baby Reindeer is leading this year’s BAFTA TV awards with eight nominations, including for Gunning in the Supporting Actress category. The 38-year-old from Holmfirth, West Yorkshire has appeared in David Mitchell and Robert Webb’s Back, the film Pride, and Stephen Merchant’s The Outlaws. For her next project, she’s jumping into the family-friendly tale The Magic Faraway Tree, based on The Faraway Tree series of children’s novels by Enid Blyton. What has that been like after Baby Reindeer? “It was lovely, and it's such a beloved story,” Gunning tells Radio Times exclusively. “I really hope people will love it. It's one of those things that grandparents who read the books when they were little will enjoy, and there will be people discovering it for the first time as well. I've got a feeling it might be a pretty magical tale. It was amazing to film.” It’s adapted by BAFTA winner Simon Farnaby (Wonka, Paddington 2, Ghosts), and directed by Ben Gregor (Britannia, Cuckoo), so Gunning assures us, "Paddington fans and Ghosts fans will love it! Simon's script was so heartwarming and funny. Even in the read-through, there wasn't a dry eye in the house at the end". The story follows Polly (Claire Foy) and Tim (Andrew Garfield) and their three children, who relocate to the remote English countryside. There, the children discover a magical tree and its residents. At the top of the tree, they are transported to different lands, where they embark on fanta…

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Black Mirror star didn't know she was going to film cameo for season 7
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date: 2025-04-30T14:37:15.000Z
creator: Laura Rutkowski
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subject: TV
subject: Exclusive
subject: Netflix
subject: News
description: Anjana Vasan makes an appearance in the season 7 Black Mirror episode USS Callister: Into Infinity.
encoded: Anjana Vasan, who is nominated for a BAFTA for Female Performance in a Comedy for We Are Lady Parts, is also known for starring in Black Mirror’s Demon 79 episode in season 6. Vasan recently made a cameo in season 7’s USS Callister: Into Infinity, a follow-up to the season 4 episode USS Callister. She appears briefly on screen with her Demon 79 co-star Paapa Essiedu as they play gamers in the final scene attacking the spaceship the USS Callister. "That cameo was a surprise," the Indian-Singaporean actor, 38, tells Radio Times exclusively. "Paapa and I did a little set visit, because the team behind USS Callister were the same team that made Demon 79. It was around the time of the BAFTAs last year, and we were all nominated [for seven awards], and we wanted to do a set visit to celebrate. "Our producer had this wonderful idea that maybe we should be in it. It was all very spontaneous and very quick." She adds: "The truth is, we had no idea what the story was when we shot it, they just yelled some instructions at us. "They gave us a brief context of what was happening in that scene. I was doing things, and I had no idea what they were going to use, or if we were going to get cut. It was a fun day on set, but I did not expect to be in another Black Mirror episode." In USS Callister: Into Infinity, Captain Robert Daly (Jesse Plemons) is dead and the crew of the USS Callister, led by Captain Nanette Cole (Cristin Milioti), are stranded in an infinite virtual universe as they fight against 30 million players. Several cast members returned to reprise their roles, including Milioti, Jimmi Simpson, Billy Magnussen, Milanka Brooks, Osy Ikhile, Paul G Raymond and Plemons as a digital clone version of Daly. Demon 79 is set in the town of Tipley, an area of Greater Manchester, in 1979, where Nida Huq (Vasan) works at a department store selling shoes. She releases the demon Gaap (Essiedu), who tells Huq she has three days to make three human sacrifices. If she fails, it will lead…

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View from my sofa: Mathew Baynton
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description: The Ghosts star is embracing his silly side as he takes on the Taskmaster
encoded: Add Taskmaster to your watchlist What’s the view from your sofa? We’ve got a nice, deep sofa and we like to get our feet up, but lately, I’m usually watching my nine-year-old daughter do a dance. She choreographs her own little routines to pop songs and then tells us to come and see. What have you been watching on the TV recently? When your kids are young, you end up sharing their screen habits a lot – Bluey, Peppa Pig and Pixar movies – so it becomes a treat to watch something really dark like The Babadook. We also just watched Tribe with Bruce Parry. It takes you somewhere you would never get to go and expands your idea of the world. There’s also the entertainment factor of the suffering he potentially has to go through to prove himself… <img src="https://images.immediate.co.uk/production/volatile/sites/3/2025/01/taskmaster-series-19-cast-0ebf1bf.jpg" width="1200" height="675" alt="Portraits of Fatiha El-Ghorri, Jason Mantzoukas, Mathew Baynton, Rosie Ramsey and Stevie Martin with a large typewriter in the background and the words 'Coming Soon' typed on the page." title="Fatiha El-Ghorri, Jason Mantzoukas, Mathew Baynton, Rosie Ramsey and Stevie Martin on Taskmaster" /> Your partner Kelly Robinson is a film historian. Is there a lot of film chat in your house? When you’ve ended up in the business, particularly as a writer, watching things can be a bit of a busman’s holiday. Kelly’s also a writer and we’ve been writing some stuff together. When we watch films with our son, who’s 14, he gets so annoyed because we do talk shop and he goes, “Can you just shut up?” How do you watch your films? We’ve still got boxes of VHS tapes, and we’ve got one of those VHS-to-hard-drive things. I also collect records – I really like having a thing in my hand and the artwork. I wish we could go back to the days where you just pay for the thing you want and you don’t get a whole catalogue of stuff that you don’t care about alongside it. You’re in the new series of Taskmaster — what wa…

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Mathew Baynton explains his unusual Taskmaster outfit: "The shorts were really short"
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date: 2025-04-28T23:01:31.000Z
creator: Laura Rutkowski
subject: Entertainment
subject: TV
subject: Channel 4
subject: Magazine
description: The Ghosts alum speaks to Radio Times magazine about his recent work – and the view from his sofa.
encoded: This article first appeared in Radio Times magazine. What's the view from your sofa? We’ve got a nice, deep sofa and we like to get our feet up, but lately, I’m usually watching my nine-year-old daughter do a dance. She choreographs her own little routines to pop songs and then tells us to come and see. What have you been watching on the TV recently? When your kids are young, you end up sharing their screen habits a lot – Bluey, Peppa Pig and Pixar movies – so it becomes a treat to watch something really dark like The Babadook. We also just watched Tribe with Bruce Parry. It takes you somewhere you would never get to go and expands your idea of the world. There’s also the entertainment factor of the suffering he potentially has to go through to prove himself… Your partner Kelly Robinson is a film historian. Is there a lot of film chat in your house? When you’ve ended up in the business, particularly as a writer, watching things can be a bit of a busman’s holiday. Kelly’s also a writer and we’ve been writing some stuff together. When we watch films with our son, who’s 14, he gets so annoyed because we do talk shop and he goes, "Can you just shut up?" How do you watch your films? We’ve still got boxes of VHS tapes, and we’ve got one of those VHS-to-hard drive things. I also collect records – I really like having a thing in my hand and the artwork. I wish we could go back to the days where you just pay for the thing you want and you don’t get a whole catalogue of stuff that you don’t care about alongside it. You're in the new season of Taskmaster — what was your approach? I’m not a stand-up, and I’ve never felt really comfortable being myself, so I wanted to give myself a bit of a mask, a costume, something that gives me permission to feel silly – almost reminding myself that I’m here to be laughed at. So I thought it might be fun to treat it like it’s sport and the idea of being dressed for a marathon or athletics with a number on. I asked the costume guys to get me s…

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You star Charlotte Ritchie didn't find out Kate's fate until late
type: item
date: 2025-04-24T20:00:58.000Z
creator: Laura Rutkowski
subject: Drama
subject: News
subject: TV
subject: Exclusive
subject: Netflix
description: She also had no idea what was going to happen to Penn Badgley’s Joe Goldberg in the season 5 finale.
encoded: *Warning: This article contains full spoilers for the ending of You season 5.* In the fifth and final season of You, Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) returns to New York from London with his wealthy British wife Kate Lockwood (Charlotte Ritchie) and his son Henry (Frankie DeMaio). Their marriage soon comes crumbling down as Kate can’t see past his proclivity for killing, even though she practically asks him to murder her uncle Bob. Besides, Joe’s attention is elsewhere, and he becomes infatuated with Brontë, or should we say, Louise (Madeline Brewer). Kate decides the only way to get rid of Joe once and for all is to kill him, so she teams up with his previous victims Nadia (Amy-Leigh Hickman) and Marienne (Tati Gabrielle) to trap him in his glass cage in the basement of Mooney’s bookstore. When Maddie Lockwood (Anna Camp), Kate’s half-sister, is freed from jail, after Joe put her there, she sets Mooney’s on fire. Joe, who had a secret key hidden in his arm to unlock the cage, and Kate are now both trapped in the basement as the flames engulf the store. After a struggle, Joe shoots Kate in her side. She records Joe confessing to the murder of his ex-wife Love Quinn (Victoria Pedretti), which she then sends to Nadia. Both Kate and Joe manage to escape when Brontë comes to the rescue. Speaking exclusively to Radio Times, Charlotte Ritchie told us she found out Kate’s fate really late. “There were so many moments in the make-up room where I remember catching eyes with Penn, and he was like, ‘So are you sad that Kate...?’ And I was like, "Sad that Kate what?’ He was like, ‘What do you mean? You don't know?’ I didn’t know anything, so there was this real tension.” Ritchie was also left in the dark about what would happen to Joe. “There were a lot of rumours going around that he died, that he didn't, that he got away. They were really good at keeping it under wraps, even from us.” Joe attempts to flee the country with Brontë, but she finally sees him for who he really is. Foll…

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View from my sofa: Katie Piper
type: item
creator: Laura Rutkowski
subject: App
subject: App features
description: We’re all one bad day away from prison, says the presenter and activist
encoded: Add Katie Piper: Locked Up in Louisiana to your watchlist What’s the view from your sofa? We sit in an open plan kitchen-lounge area to watch telly. We always have lots of snacks and a blanket. My husband [carpenter Richard Sutton] and I don’t argue over the remote. Our daughters are still quite young at seven and 11, so we watch one show a night, then we go up to bed. What have you been watching recently? Con Mum on Netflix is fast-paced, sad, funny and shocking. I enjoy watching kids’ TV with my children. You get to relive a lot of nostalgic things, like old Disney stuff, and you get to experience the new live-action Disney films together. In Katie Piper: Locked Up in Louisiana, you visit female inmates at New Orleans Parish Prison. What did you learn from the experience? We’re all one bad day away from being locked up. You don’t know what’s going to happen to you in life and who’s going to harm you – and how you’re going to react when somebody harms you. In 2008, you were the victim of an acid attack. How much of your own story do you reveal when you meet these women? I go in with lived experience – as a woman, a mother, a daughter, a victim of crime. Some of my story is worn on my face. That was an advantage and meant the women probably trusted me, but some of them shouted stuff like, “Hey lady, are you addicted to Botox?” or “Slow down on the plastic surgery.” They didn’t know what had happened to me. A lot of their stories involve abuse, trauma and drug addiction, which must be hard to listen to… Making a programme like this stays with you for ever. Part of you feels guilty coming home. They’ve just told you about their life and then you leave, and your normal life resumes. I’m a Christian and it did make me think that I might have gone to the US and worked at an in-prison ministry or maybe at a halfway house, if I’d not had my family or this career. My life could have been very different. What led you to make Katie: My Beautiful Face in 2009? Authenticity – t…

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'We're all one bad day away from prison,' says presenter and activist Katie Piper
type: item
date: 2025-04-22T10:33:59.000Z
creator: Laura Rutkowski
subject: Documentaries
subject: TV
subject: Magazine
description: Katie Piper spends a month in a notorious US prison in her new series.
encoded: This article first appeared in Radio Times magazine. After being attacked 15 years ago, Katie Piper has been trying to understand why women commit violent acts. In her new series, Locked Up in Louisiana, the presenter spends a month in New Orleans Parish Prison - one of the most notorious jails in the US. Here, she speaks to Radio Times magazine about her new series. What's the view from your sofa? "We sit in an open plan kitchen-lounge area to watch telly. We always have lots of snacks and a blanket. My husband [carpenter Richard Sutton] and I don’t argue over the remote. Our daughters are still quite young at seven and 11, so we watch one show a night, then we go up to bed." What have you been watching recently? "Con Mum on Netflix is fast-paced, sad, funny and shocking. I enjoy watching kids' TV with my children. You get to relive a lot of nostalgic things, like old Disney stuff, and you get to experience the new live-action Disney films together." In Katie Piper: Locked Up in Louisiana, you visit female inmates at New Orleans Parish Prison. What did you learn from the experience? "We’re all one bad day away from being locked up. You don’t know what’s going to happen to you in life and who’s going to harm you – and how you're going to react when somebody harms you." In 2008, you were the victim of an acid attack. How much of your own story do you reveal when you meet these women? "I go in with lived experience – as a woman, a mother, a daughter, a victim of crime. Some of my story is worn on my face. That was an advantage and meant the women probably trusted me, but some of them shouted stuff like, 'Hey lady, are you addicted to Botox?' or 'Slow down on the plastic surgery.' They didn’t know what had happened to me." A lot of their stories involve abuse, trauma and drug addiction, which must be hard to listen to… "Making a programme like this stays with you for ever. Part of you feels guilty coming home. They’ve just told you about their life and then you leave, …

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