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‘I spoke complete twaddle for four minutes’: Meera Syal, Larry Lamb and more on the terror of stage fright

Forget Halloween! Real scares can happen to actors any night of the year. Big name performers, including Zachary Hart and Harmony Rose-Bremner, recall their worst moments – and how they overcame their fears

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Toby Jones’s next campaign? Misinformation, and a huge immersive theatre show

Meera Syal also to star in London production reflecting producer’s experience of censorship in Georgia

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Tinsel Town: cast, plot, first look and everything you need to know

Tinsel Town is a Christmas comedy with Kiefer Sutherland, Rebel Wilson, Danny Dyer and Sir Derek Jacobi among the cast.

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Danny Dyer and Sir Derek Jacobi join cast of ‘screen legends’ for Christmas film

Dyer joins Rebel Wilson, Kiefer Sutherland, Katherine Ryan and Mawaan Rizwan in the film Tinsel Town.

Evening Standard

How to watch Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out online – live stream the comedy series retrospective from anywhere now

Here's how you can watch Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out online, and catch the comedy special when it airs on Thursday, October 17 on UKTV Gold or on streaming service NOW.

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A Tupperware of Ashes review – wrenching drama of a family hit by Alzheimer’s

In Tanika Gupta’s play, Meera Syal is a steely south Asian matriarch whose Lear-like decline into dementia upends her family

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A Tupperware of Ashes review: Muddled Alzheimer’s play is well-acted, but a tough slog

Tanika Gupta’s play follows a mother whose mind is disintegrating as her children rally around

The Independent UK

‘If audiences are crying, I’ve done my job’: closing the stories of a generation of British south Asians

Actors Meera Syal and Shobna Gulati, with playwright Tanika Gupta, explain how their National Theatre production springs from the anguish of losing their mothers

The Guardian - UK

Meera Syal compares on-screen diversity to ‘window dressing’ without structural change

‘Goodness Gracious Me’ star says she still often is offered roles to play a ‘mother or grandmother of terrorist’

The Independent UK

‘I’d rather rewatch a bad film than a classic’: The science behind our comfort movies

Chris Harvey has watched Richard Curtis’s mushy Beatles movie ‘Yesterday’ four times – but could only sit through Todd Field’s Oscar nominee ‘Tár’ once. He investigates what it is about certain films that keeps us coming back for more

The Independent UK

Goodness Gracious Me cast to mark 25th anniversary of sitcom with reunion

Members of the cast and crew from the sketch show will come together at the Desiblitz Literature Festival in October.

The Independent UK

‘Eddie Izzard was too terrified to come on!’ How we made The Kumars at No 42

Meera Syal remembers the thrill of kissing her heroes dressed as an 85-year-old granny with bad teeth, while Sanjeev Bhaskar reveals how the show was inspired by his parents interrogating his girlfriend

The Guardian - UK

Meera Syal calls for more diversity in TV industry as she wins Bafta award

Star of Goodness Gracious Me thanked Bafta for ‘seeing us’ as she accepted lifetime achievement award

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Daily Mirror

ITV Unforgotten's star Sanjeev Bhaskar's famous actress wife used to play his granny

The star of ITV's Unforgotten, Sanjeev Bhaskar, is back for a fifth series of the gripping crime drama in which he plays Detective Inspector Sunil 'Sunny' Khan

Liverpool Echo

ITV Unforgotten's Sunny star is married to a very famous actress

Sanjeev Bhaskar is back for the show's fifth series

Daily Record

First look at The Smeds and The Smoos trailer for BBC Christmas special

The new story from The Gruffalo's Julia Donaldson will hit screens for the festive season, starring Bridgerton's Adjoa Andoh, Bill Bailey, Meera Syal and Rob Bryden.

Daily Record

Peter Capaldi set to return for two more seasons of The Devils Hour

Much of the main cast from season one will be returning, including the Doctor Who actor, Raine, Nikesh Patel, Phil Dunster, Meera Syal and Benjamin Chivers while the streamer teased that new characters will be introduced.

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Wales Online

Amazon’s The Devil’s Hour: Cast, plot and when you can watch

"It's time to face your fears" in this new psychological thriller

The Guardian - UK

‘The establishment didn’t know what to do with me’: Sanjeev Bhaskar on marriage, success and stereotypes

Goodness Gracious Me made him a household name. Now The Sandman could bring international stardom. He talks about the bullies who tried to keep him down – and life as reluctant role model

The Guardian - UK

Meera Syal: ‘It’s a golden age for TV – the streamers have kicked us all up the arse’

Meera Syal talks about the benefits of the new TV landscape for actors of colour, her part in Nicole Kidman’s new series, Roar, and how she is finally learning to slow down (but not really)

The Guardian - UK

Whodunnit? Ask Emma Thompson and her surprise super-sleuths

Ian McKellen and Sanjeev Bhaskar will also take to stage and solve a crime without rehearsal in starry fundraising drama at London theatre

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