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Iannucci on Sweariest Oscar-Nominated Script Ever

Movieline's first stop on the Oscar-reaction rounds is Armando Iannucci, the In the Loop director whose caustic political satire today earned an Adapted Screenplay nomination for him and his co-writers Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell and Tony Roche. However, more than just being rewarded for the innovation of its characters and story - which focuses on how one press-office zealot engineers a multinational war effort - the Academy may very well have nominated Iannucci and Co. for their exhaustive efforts in developing Loop's stirring new lexicon of profanity. Their side-splitting effort is the only comedy recognized in its respective category - no doubt an underdog against the likes of Up in the Air and Precious, but one that will be happy just to be in the Kodak Theater March 7.

Iannucci spoke with us this afternoon about his reaction to being nominated, Loop's improv factor, and taking Oscar to the outer limits of screen vulgarity.

Five Minutes With: Vic Reeves

Celebrities and news-makers are grilled by Matthew Stadlen in exactly five minutes in a series for the BBC News website.

This week, comedian Vic Reeves talks about how he got his name, the strange link that runs through the men in his family, why the curlew is his favourite bird and tells a tall tale about being shot by the police.

Q&A: Steve Coogan

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New sitcom reveals the truth about British ad agencies

Populated by over-the-top admen characters and extreme plots rooted more in truth than fiction, you get a flavour of the series with his original title - The Scum Also Rises - which BBC2 has delicately changed to The Persuasionists.

The Steve Coogan Collection

Steve Coogan made his first real impression on U.S. audiences in the 2002 biopic 24 Hour Party People, playing real-life TV presenter and music mogul Tony Wilson, though few Americans realized at the time that this was just the latest in a string of Coogan performances that examined the quirks, insecurities, and arrogance of television personalities. The staggering 13-disc DVD box set The Steve Coogan Collection contains most of Coogan's major BBC projects-from the decade-spanning Alan Partridge series to the short-lived The Tony Ferrino Phenomenon-and while the shows vary in style and quality, they all offer variations on one question. How do people behave in the public eye, and how they behave in private?

Give me The Good Life every Christmas

Keep your shiny new Doctor Who in its box. There's only one Christmas special that brings real joy - and it's from 1977.

Mister Eleven Review

This two-part rom-com has been gathering dust in ITV's vault for so long now that Dev Patel (playing an embarrassed hotel waiter) has since gone on to star in an Oscar-winning movie, Slumdog Millionaire. Mister Eleven is another fatuous example of comfort-TV for undemanding girls stuck at home on a Friday evening, only made palatable thanks to Michelle Ryan's heartfelt performance...

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Michelle Ryan and Sean Maguire on Mister Eleven

The former EastEnders stars who found unlikely success in Hollywood: Michelle Ryan and Sean Maguire discuss their new, British, two-part comedy drama.

What did 'Life of Brian' ever do for us?

Monty Python's 1979 film, 'Life of Brian', is rightly considered a comedy classic. But, thirty years on, it wouldn't be made today, argues Sanjeev Bhaskar.