Andie MacDowell

Four Weddings sequel: All you need to know

It launched the careers of stars like Hugh Grant, and inspired a slew of romantic comedies.

Now, 25 years after its release, most of the original cast of Four Weddings and a Funeral have reunited for a short sequel to be shown during Friday's Comic Relief telethon on BBC One.

One Red Nose Day and a Wedding review

Twenty-five years after the release of Four Weddings and a Funeral, Richard Curtis's well-intentioned short sequel for Comic Relief gave rise to no laughs but some genuine pathos.

Review: Cuckoo, Series Five, BBC Three

The fifth series of Cuckoo is very much what you might call the WTF series. WTF happen to Dale? And WTF is film superstar Andie MacDowell doing in a BBC Three series set in Lichfield?

Andie MacDowell returning in Four Weddings TV

MacDowell will play a new character in the Mindy Kaling-scripted series.

Andie MacDowell joins BBC Three comedy Cuckoo

Four Weddings And A Funeral star Andie MacDowell is the latest high-profile Hollywood actor to join BBC comedy Cuckoo.

The best of Richard Curtis's romcoms about awfully nice chaps dithering over frightfully pretty girls. Hugh Grant plays bumbling Charles, who, ah, er, can't tell what's, um, going on between him and Carrie (Andie MacDowell), whom he keeps bumping into at weddings.

Remember that scene in Four Weddings And A Funeral when Andie MacDowell lists her sexual partners to a beleaguered Hugh Grant? Well, this is sort of that, stretched out over two parts. This time, our leading lady is Michelle Ryan playing a statistics-obsessed maths teacher who reckons the 11th sexual partner is the one you should marry - the appearance of an ex on her wedding day prompts a romp through her hot-under-the-collar past. It's not entirely successful because Ryan's not much of an actress and the script is a bit lacklustre. But the eye-candy credentials of Sean Maguire and Adam Garcia, and an appearance by sweet Slumdog Millionaire star Dev Patel are enough to keep you paying attention.