Hugh Bonneville

Hugh Bonneville interview

TV Choice caught up with man-of-the-moment Hugh Bonneville to chat about the show that's based on the book by David Walliams.

Hugh Bonneville on playing messy tramp Mr Stink

The Downton Abbey actor joins Sheridan Smith, Johnny Vegas and Pudsey the dog in BBC's festive adaptation of David Walliams' children's story.

Could there be a follow-up to Twenty Twelve?

Head of Deliverance Hugh Bonneville discusses the future of John Morton's hugely popular mockumentary.

The end of visiting hours is upon us as this perfect, bittersweet hospital drama reaches the end of its run. The personal lives of Kim, Den and Pippa criss cross with life and death on the wards, where there's a surprise appearance - a silent cameo from Oscar-winning actress Tilda Swinton, followed up by Hugh Bonneville as Pippa's ex. It seems everyone wants in on Getting On.

Honest, warm and human, Getting On's wry dramatisation of the inefficiences of the NHS is as clever as it is funny; the script is a credit to Jo Brand, Joanna Scanlan and Vicki Pepperdine. In the series finale, a group of schoolchildren arrives at the geriatric ward to sketch images of the patients and Sister Den (Scanlan) is sceptical: "Most are doolally, deaf or asleep. Good luck to them." Watch for cameo appearances by Hugh Bonneville and Tilda Swinton.

Pictures: Sheridan Smith, Hugh Bonneville film Mr Stink

Sheridan Smith has been snapped filming scenes for the BBC One adaptation of David Walliams children's novel Mr Stink.

Sheridan Smith & Johnny Vegas join Mr Stink cast

Sheridan Smith and Johnny Vegas are to join Hugh Bonneville in Mr Stink, BBC One's forthcoming 60-minute adaptation of David Walliams' popular children's novel.

There are fears that the fireworks at the Opening Ceremony will trigger ground-to-air missiles in London. Perhaps, wonders a member of the heroically dim Deliverance Committee, they could be incorporated into the display, even though the weapons "can't tell the difference between a Roman candle and a hijacked Airbus".

There are other problems: the Games' electric cars are under-powered, no one has thought to organise the national bell-ringing (called, with terrible, pin-brained inevitability, the Big Bong), and three of the team are fighting for the Director of Posterity job. But really, the last episode of this wonderfully silly comedy is all about the great unspoken love between Sally and Ian (Olivia Colman and Hugh Bonneville). Can they ever be together?

'Can we afford a last minute disaster or not?' wonders Hugh Bonneville's Ian Fletcher. The deliverance team manages to stumble over the finishing line tonight but, as ever, they're more Derek Redmond than Usain Bolt. Tonight's minor crises include a putative bell-ringing ceremony involving Aled Jones and a conceptual artist, and concerns about the fireworks at the opening ceremony triggering the ground-to-air missiles. Still, at least they haven't had to call in the army to provide security. The end hedges its bets slightly - surely this late in the day, writer John Morton must have been tempted to offer us some closure - but overall, this has been an exponentially multiplying delight and a triumph of English self-deprecation. Now to find out if the truth can be stranger than fiction...