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The Festive Pottery Throw Down 2024: release date, celebrities, challenges, trailer, interviews and everything you need to know

The Festive Pottery Throw Down 2024 is a celebrity Christmas special with Martin Kemp, Rachel Riley, Tom Rosenthal and Babatunde Aleshe.

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How to watch 'RuPaul’s Drag Race U.K.' series 6 final online and on TV

A new batch of Queens are competing to be crowned the U.K.'s next Drag Superstar. Here's how to watch "RuPaul’s Drag Race U.K." season 6 online and from anywhere.

Tom’s Guide

No Derry Girls reunion on the horizon, says Nicola Coughlan

Bridgerton star says show wrapped up in ‘perfect package’

The Independent UK

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EXCLUSIVE: Siobhán McSweeney on why shooting Extraordinary season 2 was 'the best craic ever'

EXCLUSIVE: Derry Girls star Siobhán McSweeney discusses her role in the new season, and how much fun it is to film Extraordinary season 2.

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Extraordinary season two review – does anal 3D-printing count as a superpower now?

The sparky comedy show that takes superhero shenanigans to sublime heights of silliness is back – and this time, it’s as profound as it is crude. Brace yourself for a body-splitting, time-rewinding, dead-communing romp

The Guardian - UK

I had only middle-aged lesbian passing interest in ceramics – then I discovered The Great Pottery Throw Down

This show of sweet vibes and soothing spinning clay, where people are kind to each other, makes me cry. I’m not the only one

The Guardian - AU

The Great Pottery Throw Down season 7: release date, guest judges, interview with and all about the 2024 series

The Great Pottery Throw Down is back for a seventh series on Channel 4, with Derry Girls star Siobhán McSweeney again hosting.

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The best theatre, comedy and dance of 2023

Our critics’ highlights of the year include a 24-hour marathon, a standup welcoming hecklers, a reboot of The Matrix and a bus ride filled with emotion

The Guardian - UK

Happy Days review – Siobhán McSweeney brings masterful touch to Beckett’s masterpiece

The Derry Girls star adds wonderfully subtle clowning and a beguiling naturalism to the absurd classic about a woman quite literally stuck in marital stasis

The Guardian - UK

Top videos: Mum inspires Pies, shark attacks, and a kitchen kitty’s woes

Harrison Ford had an emotional response to his most recent movie, while Collingwood copped an inspiring speech from one of their mums.

The New Daily

Derry Girls star Siobhan McSweeney’s 'anti-government comments edited out of BAFTA speech by BBC'

A significant portion of McSweeney's speech was omitted and the broadcaster explained why

Belfast Live

BBC accused of editing Derry Girls star's BAFTA speech calling out 'so-called leaders'

Derry Girls star Siobhán McSweeney's BAFTA acceptance speech was cut short by the BBC as she called out 'indignities, ignorance and stupidity' of the people of Derry's 'so-called leaders'

Daily Mirror

BAFTA TV Awards 2023 winners list in full as Kate Winslet wins gong and The Responder snubbed

The 2023 BAFTA TV Awards saw a host of stars of the small screen pick up awards as the ceremony celebrated the best of this year's television

Daily Mirror

Bafta TV 2023: The full list of nominations

Bafta TV awards will take place on Sunday night (14 May)

The Independent UK

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Evening Standard

BAFTA TV awards 2023: who will win, and who should win?

Bona fide stars from Billie Piper and Kate Winslet to Gary Oldman, Daniel Radcliffe and Lesley Manville are all in the running for honours

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Dancing at Lughnasa; Private Lives – review

Brian Friel’s thoughtful 1930s drama remains absorbing, while Noel Coward’s classic has fine cigarette work but fails to ignite

The Guardian - UK

Dancing at Lughnasa review – an exquisite staging of Brian Friel’s evocative drama

There are superb performances from a cast including Siobhán McSweeney and Ardal O’Hanlon in Josie Rourke’s production

Evening Standard

Dancing at Lughnasa at the National Theatre review: a powerfully moving family portrait at a moment of change

Even if you missed all the subtext, this show would still delight in its acute depiction of family dynamics

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‘Buttock-clenching moments of excruciating joy’: famous Succession fans on their favourite scenes

Kendall rapping, Gerri and Roman’s hotel bathroom tryst… as the final season airs, Armando Iannucci, Abi Morgan, Phil Wang and more tell us about their top moments

The Independent UK

Bafta TV 2023: The full list of nominations

Hospital drama ‘This is Going to Hurt’ and the Martin Freeman-led ‘The Responder’ are among the most-nominated programmes at this year’s ceremony

The Guardian - UK

The week in TV: Extraordinary; Everyone Else Burns; Grayson Perry’s Full English; Lockwood & Co

Starstruck meets early Sharon Horgan in Emma Moran’s riotous comedy of twentysomething angst; Simon Bird excels as a preening evangelist. Plus, a thoughtful meander through England with Grayson Perry

Irish Mirror

Derry Girls star 'wants to take bat to car' after driver shouts homophobic slurs at friends

Siobhán, who plays Sister Michael in Derry Girls, posted a pic of the car online

The Guardian - UK

Siobhán McSweeney: ‘Without sounding woo woo, I think a feminine spirit has come back to Ireland’

The actor and presenter on saying goodbye to Derry Girls, her role in Disney’s new superhero comedy Extraordinary, and why she’s been given her own table on Pottery Throw Down

The Independent UK

Lewis Capaldi teases Jamie Dornan over Fifty Shades with filthy jokes on Graham Norton Show

‘Is that the time?’ joked Norton as he closed the show

Belfast Live

How Derry Girls favourite Siobhán McSweeney is doing her bit for charity this Christmas

"If you need an enthusiastic message of me cheering you on in the spirit of pottery throwdown, or anything else at all that you think I'd be able to do, please let me know"

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