A woman in New Zealand has been sentenced to over three years in prison for burning down a house she rented and assaulting a police officer. Normally that wouldn’t be the kind of thing that makes ...
The writer-director-star made her feature debut with the film. By Lexi Carson Associate Editor Eva Victor, the film’s screenwriter and director and star, took to the stage to accept the award, ...
Jonathan Lynn’s farewell to the beloved parliamentary sitcom casts Griff Rhys Jones as ex-PM Jim Hacker, making one last call on his wily consigliere Death comes to us all but, slightly before it, so ...
On his sofa in the first scene is a young black woman with a neatly braided hairstyle and smart-casual clothes. Sophie (Stephanie Levi-John, pictured right) has applied to be Hacker’s care-worker – a ...
“We’re in the dustbin of history,” says retired civil servant Sir Humphrey (Clive Francis), bitterly mourning the loss of his hundreds of minions and innumerable paths of political influence. Former ...
Jonathan Lynn’s final instalment of the comedies is a witty, wistful and still-relevant satire Providing a bittersweet coda to the much-loved political satire, this thoughtful comedy from series ...
Griff Rhys Jones and Clive Francis revive Hacker and Sir Humphrey in a topical farewell that probes a changing Britain Dominic Cavendish has been writing about theatre and comedy since the mid-1990s ...
Read our review of I'm Sorry, Prime Minister, written by Jonathan Lynn, now in performances at the Apollo Theatre to 9 May. Time catches up with us all, and so it has ...
Clive Francis (as Sir Humphrey Appleby) and Griff Rhys Jones (as Jim Hacker) in I’m Sorry, Prime Minister, © Johan Persson There are some interesting themes ...
The much-loved TV classic is given a stage sequel by original co-writer Jonathan Lynn, which has fine moments but suffers from a miscasting The Standard's journalism is supported by our readers. When ...
Old age comes to us all – well, if we're lucky. And Jonathan Lynn, celebrated octogenarian co-author of the legendary BBC Yes, Minister comedy series, has certainly been lucky to get so much mileage ...
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