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The Latest Breaking News from Robert Webb

TV tonight: our highlights for Friday, September 12, including a new episode of Bake Off: An Extra Slice

There's also a Downton Abbey documentary to enjoy.

WhatToWatch

Mitchell and Webb Are Not Helping review – it’s comfortingly surreal to see them doing sketch comedy again

There’s a real 00s feel to the double act’s hit-and-miss return. But the highs it hits are proof that this neglected form of comedy has plenty of life left in it

The Guardian - UK

Mitchell and Webb Are Not Helping on Channel 4 review: not quite numberwang

3/5 The comedy duo are back with a mix of zingers and clangers

Evening Standard

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TV tonight: Domhnall Gleeson tries to save a failing newspaper in new mockumentary

The Gervais- and Merchant-produced comedy The Paper pokes fun at US journalism. Plus, Mitchell and Webb reunite for a new sketch show. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

‘You’re finally dressing your age, David!’ Mitchell and Webb on age, arguments and their big comeback

The TV comedy duo are back this week with their first new sketch show in 15 years, Mitchell and Webb Are Not Helping. Do newer comics think they’re old farts? They tell all

The Guardian - UK

The 50 best TV shows to watch this autumn

The epic Stranger Things finale, Sally Wainwright’s menopausal punks, Alan Partridge in therapy and Stephen Fry … in a Traitors robe? Here’s your ultimate guide to the must-see series of the season

The Guardian - UK

David Mitchell says the term ‘mansplaining’ is unfair

‘Peep Show’ star takes issue with phrase typically aimed at condescending men

The Independent UK

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20 autumn TV shows everyone will be talking about

IN FOCUS: ‘Celebrity Traitors’, the return of ‘Stranger Things’, and a new drama starring the stellar duo of Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson are among the highlights of the season, chosen by Louis Chilton, Ellie Harrison and Katie Rosseinsky

The Independent UK

Nickel Boys’ Brandon Wilson: ‘There’s no logic to racial structures’

RISING STARS: The rising star of the Oscar-nominated drama speaks to Lydia Spencer-Elliott about the ghosts of America’s past, his exciting future and an unlikely British sitcom connection

The Independent UK

Peep Show stars say sitcom genre has fallen into a ‘coma’ in past decade

David Mitchell, who played Mark Corrigan in the hit sitcom, said genre has been ‘abandoned’ by TV industry

The Independent UK

Building that was part of Channel 4's Peep Show to help tackle Croydon’s housing crisis

Zodiac Court in Croydon was home to the characters Mark and Jez played by David Mitchell and Robert Webb

Evening Standard

Peep Show’s Matt King leaves Twitter after discovering disturbing video on the platform

‘If this is what Elon Musk thinks is free speech then he’s a lunatic,’ the actor said

The Independent UK

Whitstable Pearl season 3: release date, trailer, plot, cast, filming locations and everything we know

Whitstable Pearl season 3 — an exclusive guide to the new series by star Frances Barber.

WhatToWatch

Peep Show star reveals what it would take for reunion with David Mitchell and Robert Webb

‘I hate memes but this one made me smile,’ wrote Super Hans actor Matt King

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Exclusive: Frances Barber on Whitstable Pearl season 2 and a very special Inspector Morse memory

An exclusive interview with Frances Barber on season 2 of Whitstable Pearl sailing into uncharted waters…

The Independent UK

Relatives of inmates who died in Wisconsin prison shocked guards weren't charged in their cases

Relatives of two inmates who died in an aging maximum security prison in Wisconsin say they're stunned that prosecutors haven't filed charges in their cases after bringing multiple counts against the warden and other employees in connection with two other prisoners' deaths

Cinemablend

The Best Sketch Comedy TV Shows Of All Time

Here are CinemaBlend's picks for the best sketch comedy TV shows of all time, from Monty Python to Key & Peele.

The Guardian - UK

The big 2023 quiz of the year

Barbie was on the big screen, Taylor Swift on the airwaves… How well do you remember the year that was?

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The Independent UK

Strictly Come Dancing: 7 stars who left in strange or unexpected circumstances

A look back at some of the BBC dance competition’s surprise early exits

The Guardian - AU

Five Great Reads: a dolphin sex scandal, a critic’s top film picks and looking back on Peep Show

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Imogen Dewey

Evening Standard

Finishing every Booker Prize novel is ‘impossible’ says judge Robert Webb

‘You finish as many as you can and the other ones you put to one side after a respectable but undisclosed fraction has been read’

Al Jazeera

Novels from Canada, Ireland, US, UK finalists for Booker Prize for fiction

Shortlist announced for annual Booker literature prize includes two first-time novels among the six finalists.

Evening Standard

Half of authors on newly revealed Booker Prize 2023 shortlist called Paul

The judges chose the final six novels from a longlist of 13 titles.

The Guardian - UK

Just one British writer makes the Booker prize shortlist

Chetna Maroo’s ‘mesmerising’ Western Lane has been chosen for inclusion on a male-dominated list

The Guardian - UK

‘The scripts were the funniest things I’d ever read’: the stars of Peep Show look back, 20 years later

It launched the careers of Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain, Mitchell and Webb, plus Olivia Colman – but it nearly got cancelled. Two decades since its first episode, its stars reflect on the show that made them

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