Ben Miles
- English
- Actor
Press clippings
Douglas Is Cancelled review
Rows about cancel culture tend to be reductive. A clear binary between those who harrumph "you can't say anything any more" and the righteously censorious. A nuanced path somewhere between the two is probably society's best way forward, but as a savvy newspaper editor says in Steven Moffat's twisty new comedy-drama Douglas Is Cancelled: "Outrage is exciting, nuance is work."
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 27th June 2024Douglas Is Cancelled preview
There have been so many trailers for new ITV1 comedy drama Douglas Is Cancelled I felt like I'd seen it before I hit the play button. And even when I'd hit the button and watched the first episode a lot of it was scarily familiar. But in a Good Way.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 26th June 2024Douglas Is Cancelled interviews
Steven Moffat began working on Douglas Is Cancelled in 2018, before most people - Moffat included - had even heard of the term "cancel culture." It was only later he realised his story - about a distinguished news anchor whose life is turned upside down when an unguarded comment goes viral - exemplified it.
K. J. Yossman, Variety, 26th February 2024Hugh Bonneville & Karen Gillan lead ITVX comedy from Steven Moffat
Hugh Bonneville and Karen Gillan are to star in Douglas Is Cancelled, a new comedy drama for ITVX written by Steven Moffat, his first television comedy in the two decades since Coupling.
British Comedy Guide, 17th November 2023Joe Orton Laid Bare, BBC2, review
The black farce, and tragedy, of theatre's rough boy.
Jeff Robson, i Newspaper, 25th November 2017