Bill Paterson

How Mock The Week launched the UK's brightest comedy stars

Since it smashed onto our screens in 2005, the panel show with a mildly terrifying reputation has become one of the best incubators for emerging comedy talent. As the final episode airs, Isobel Lewis speaks to host Dara Ó Briain and some of the series' biggest stars about how Mock The Week overcame that 'elbows out' atmosphere and what the BBC can offer new comedians going forward.

Guilt - Series 2 review

Scotland's answer to Fargo is still deliciously twisted.

Love Sarah, review

A comedy so desperate to seem progressive that it ends up a Brexiteer.

Guilt, BBC Two, review

An unexpected Scottish treat with a pitch-black tone.

Guilt, episode 4, review

At long last, a drama that stays good to the last episode.

The police in Guilt (BBC2) are also showing no interest in getting to the bottom of the murky maelstrom of crimes . . . murder, fraud and now money-laundering. It doesn't help that one of the detectives is in the pay of the city's kingpin (Bill Paterson).

'I'm a businessman now, but a businessman who in the past committed significant amounts of extreme violence,' he growled at dodgy lawyer Max (Mark Bonnar). Bonnar is at the dark heart of this crime drama. He conveys such brittle, superficial charm we can't help guessing at what festers beneath.

All comedy in the script has leached away. There was nothing funny about the dockyard beating meted out to private eye Kenny. Like Max and his brother Jake, we've been lured into something much more dangerous than we expected.

Bill Paterson on his new TV role in Guilt

What's your favourite Bill Paterson moment? Well, I would hazard that, if you're anything like me, choosing just one will be no easy feat.

Fleabag stars answer fan theories

If you've seen the final episode and wondered what it all means, you're not the only one. We put some of the questions and theories that fans have to stars Bill Paterson and Sian Clifford.