Diane Morgan

After Life review

Ricky Gervais' touching look at grief and the people left behind.

Review: After Life, Netflix

What is the new six-part Netflix series from Ricky Gervais? After Life is certainly funny but it is no sitcom. There is too much going on here that isn't funny to file it snugly under that genre. It's not that safety net catch-all "comedy drama" either though. It's something totally unique. And it deserves a category of its own.

Diane Morgan and Maxine Peake interview

Since meeting at a Manchester drama school, the two Boltonians have been desperate to work with each.

How much you enjoyed Philomena Cunk's history of Britain depends on how funny you find Diane Morgan's resting confused face. I find it hilarious. Her interviewees are kind of in on the joke but clearly briefed to take it as seriously as possible. They'll be mid-flow and she will cock her head and drain all the interest from her face. "What's the most political thing that's ever happened?" she asked Robert Peston, who did his best to answer with a straight face. Co-producer Charlie Brooker's fingerprints are everywhere in the way Morgan's vain, poorly informed, easily distracted Cunk operates within a ruthlessly satirical production, which sends up the tropes and clichés of every dodgy documentary and history programme. She might not be the comic creation we need, but she is the one we deserve right now.

First look at Robert Webb & Diane Morgan in Frayed

With the show currently shooting in New South Wales, Australia, performers such as Sarah Kendall, Kerry Armstrong and Ben Mingay are also attached for roles.

Philomena Cunk on her life in books

"What am I currently reading? A sign that says BUS STOPPING"