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‘We wrote “Suit you, sir!” for Harry Enfield – he didn’t like it’: an oral history of The Fast Show

Thirty years after it first aired, the stars of the hit BBC sketch show tell all – from wowing Johnny Depp to inter-office tension that left one of the cast in tears

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An Evening With The Fast Show review – chummy chat and catchphrase classics

Ted and Ralph, the ‘Suit you!’ tailors and the rest of the gang’s most fondly remembered characters reconvene for a 30th-anniversary greatest hits sketch show, interspersed with the cast’s reminiscences about their creation

The Guardian - UK

Nice! Cast of The Fast Show to reunite for a UK stage tour

The comedy series’ originators Charlie Higson and Paul Whitehouse will lead a 30th anniversary live show due to begin in March

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Evil Genius With Russell Kane review – a deeply bewildering and disturbing piece of TV

Ill-informed comedians debate whether Churchill was a good man, then bluff their way through talk of atrocities with nary a gag being cracked. Who thought this was a good idea?

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: Russell Kane’s hit podcast Evil Genius comes to our screens

The comedian asks whether history’s most polarising figures were evil or genius. Plus, Grime Kids continues. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Withnail and I: How a Beatle-funded comedy about alcoholic actors became a cult classic

The boozy British comedy classic was produced by Beatle George Harrison and made stars out of Richard E Grant and Paul McGann, but its initial cinema release went almost unnoticed. Nick Duerden looks at the film’s chequered road to cult status

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OPINION - This sinister censorship agenda in the publishing world should trouble us all

Hard on the heels of the news that Ian Fleming’s publishers have “edited” its new edition of the James Bond novels to coincide with the 70th anniversary of Casino Royale (a cracker) to omit some non-current references to race, there arrives a new version of James Bond. On His Majesty’s…

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Jeremy Corbyn to star in rapper Adam Deacon’s film Sumotherhood

‘Allow it, wasteman’

Evening Standard

‘Times change’: what authors think about rewriting older books

Jacqueline Wilson is latest writer to wade into debate over changing dated and offensive language

The Guardian - UK

James Bond author says if an actor is tipped to be next 007, ‘you know they’ve been rejected’

‘Daniel Craig, nobody had any idea at all that he might be Bond,’ Charlie Higson said

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James Bond author says if an actor is tipped to be next 007, ‘you know they’ve been rejected’

‘Daniel Craig, nobody had any idea at all that he might be Bond,’ Charlie Higson said

The Independent UK

If someone is tipped to be next James Bond, ‘you know they’ve been rejected’

Charlie Higson has released a new James Bond story to celebrate the King’s coronation.

The Independent UK

James Bond Author Charlie Higson Blasts No Time To Die And Names Another Spy Franchise As 'The Best Bond Films Now'

James Bond author Charlie Higson has a specific bone to pick with No Time To Die, while praising another spy franchise as the better 007.

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King Charles' new coronation tribute includes a major pop culture icon – but there’s a sad connection to the late Queen

James Bond is back – and it’s all to save King Charles’ coronation

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James Bond's latest mission: to save King Charles III's coronation

London (AFP) - Legendary spy James Bond faces a race against time to save King Charles III's upcoming coronation in a new story to be released ahead of the May 6 ceremony, it was revealed Friday.

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New James Bond story commissioned to celebrate the king’s coronation

The new 007 story is set to bring Bond into the present day

The Independent UK

New James Bond story commissioned to celebrate the King’s coronation

On His Majesty’s Secret Service will be published in May.

The Guardian - UK

Sensitivity readers: what publishing’s most polarising role is really about

The Roald Dahl alterations thrust sensitivity readers to the foreground, but the profession is nothing new

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Charlie Higson: ‘I hope to be so unwound I can just lie on the sofa’

The comedian and author on gorging on granola, long lie-ins, Zen housework and feeling totally relaxed

Evening Standard

Ex-Downing Street aide Cleo Watson plans another ‘bonkbuster’ political novel

Ex-Prime minister Boris Johnson’s former aide Cleo Watson is planning a second novel about political life, we hear.

The Guardian - UK

The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup

The Goodbye Coast by Joe Ide; Even the Darkest Night by Javier Cercas; Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka; The House of Ashes by Stuart Neville; Whatever Gets You Through the Night by Charlie Higson

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