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How ‘Pistol’ highlights the height of the punk movement in 1970s London

A tiny shop in 1970s London, in neon pink letters, shouted to passersby: SEX.

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Review: You think you know the Sex Pistols. This new TV show tries to deliver a corrective

It's been 44 years since the Sex Pistols broke up and only a couple more since they played their first gig, having produced only one actual album in their lifetime. And yet they seem very much with us; the best of their music continues to sound massively huge, outside of…

Los Angeles Times

The Sex Pistols rock again in Danny Boyle's FX show 'Pistol'

Anson Boon got so into playing Johnny Rotten that he hurt himself rocking too hard.

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Disney+ Pistol: Everything you need to know about new biopic series - including cast, release date

The band’s singer Johnny Rotten has criticised the show

Wales Online

For Alicia von Rittberg, 'becoming' Queen Elizabeth required more than one crowning moment

It’s a casting director’s nightmare: How do you find a young actress to play one of England’s greatest monarchs, Queen Elizabeth I?

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Pistol on Disney+: A guide to the real-life punks who brought anarchy to the UK

The new Danny Boyle TV show is out today

Evening Standard

Court told net on sunken boat's propeller

A boat involved in a fatal marine incident on the Brisbane River was found with fishing net wrapped around the propeller, a court has heard.

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Pistol review – Danny Boyle’s wonky Sex Pistols show is like Punk: the Panto!

Johnny Rotten is the Artful Dodger crossed with an animated rodent in Boyle’s frustrating series that feels so cartoonish it falls totally flat

The Guardian - UK

Pistol review: Danny Boyle’s series never achieves the rollicking kineticism we associate with the Sex Pistols

Toby Wallace leads the cast of this series about the wild rise and incendiary fall of Britain’s most notorious and fractious punk rock band

The Independent UK

ITV This Morning viewers get what they expected as hosts issue apology over Sex Pistols' John Lydon

The Sex Pistols singer appeared live on the ITV daytime show

Manchester Evening News

Sex Pistols Johnny Rotten swears during live This Morning interview

There was "fruity language" to kick off the Jubilee week thanks to Sex Pistol's John Lydon's appearance on ITV today

Chronicle Live

Sex Pistols' John Lydon calls Danny Boyle an 'a***hole' during chaotic This Morning chat

Danny Boyle directed and produced the upcoming series, Pistol, which is based on the iconic punk rock band Sex Pistols

Daily Mirror

Dylan Llewellyn: ‘I want to go to the dark side for my next role – I’ve got it in me’

The ‘wee English fella’ from ‘Derry Girls’ is playing another total sweetheart in the Channel 4 comedy ‘Big Boys’. He tells Ellie Harrison about how he nearly quit acting, the ‘homely’ appeal of his new show and why’s he’s ready to play against type

The Independent UK

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'Pistol'

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The Guardian - UK

Pistol to Borgen: the seven best shows to stream this week

Danny Boyle’s gurning, sneering Sex Pistols show finally lands, and Birgitte Nyborg is back! Plus: ace new mockumentary Abbott Elementary and more Floor is Lava

Evening Standard

Pistol on Disney+ review: Danny Boyle’s series on the Sex Pistols can’t help but turn very dark

The grim realities of this story mean that the series is tonally uneven, but it’s never boring

Daily Mirror

Sex Pistols drama charts rise and fall of punk band who mocked the Queen at Jubilee

They may have only last two and a half years before self-destructing but decades on the Sex Pistols' punk legacy lives on in an era eerily similar.

Bangkok Post

Capturing the anarchy in the Sex Pistols

LONDON: “Are we doing any spitting?” asked a man in the crowd at the 100 Club, a small, red-walled underground space, redolent of spilled beer, cigarette smoke and a thousand lost nights, just off London’s Oxford Street.

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‘I want Johnny Rotten to attack it!’ Danny Boyle on his shocking Sex Pistols saga

How do you make a sympathetic TV show about the most cancelled, most banned, most shamelessly vile band ever – when your cast have barely heard of them and the frontman is taking you to court? The director reveals all

Evening Standard

Pistol, Midas Man, Elvis, Going Electric: how the classic rock canon is being rebooted

With Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan and Danny Boyle’s new Sex Pistols show on Disney+, old rockers are being reclaimed for a new generation

Daily Mirror

John Lydon takes another swipe at Sex Pistols TV show, claiming it is too sleazy

Sex Pistols TV show John Lydon, aka Johnny Rotten, has said the upcoming Disney+ show about his band is "upsetting as a lot of it has sexual connotations which are dubious at best"

The Independent UK

Danny Boyle reveals what would have happened in his unwanted Bond film that led to ‘creative differences’

‘They just lost confidence in it,’ he said

Inverse

15 years ago, '28 Weeks Later' improved on Danny Boyle's zombie cult classic

This bombastic sequel is less popular than its predecessor, but it deserves re-evaluation on its own merits.

Daily Mirror

First look at Danny Boyle’s Sex Pistols TV series as Disney+ trailer promises chaos

Director Danny Boyle's upcoming Sex Pistols series has seen its first trailer released on Disney Plus to the excitement of fans of the Punk Rock band.

The Guardian - UK

Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo: ‘I’ve never heard us described as an island of joy before!’

Radio’s odd couple take questions from actors, directors and Observer readers about optimism, the films they disagree on – and biscuits

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