Karen Gillan
- Scottish
- Actor
Press clippings
Karen Gillan: 'It's better to tell the story of Douglas Is Cancelled than not tell the story'
Douglas Is Cancelled is laced with dark humour and shot through with ambiguity. That's where the tension lies.
Adrian Lobb, The Big Issue, 4th July 2024Karen Gillan on what makes Douglas Is Cancelled "so relevant to so many professions"
Karen Gillan talks to the Big Issue about new ITVX drama Douglas Is Cancelled, misogyny in the workplace and Doctor Who reunions.
Adrian Lobb, The Big Issue, 27th June 2024Douglas 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 review
Karen Gillan steals the show in Steven Moffat's sharp satire of TV news.
Aidan Smith, The Scotsman, 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: Hugh Bonneville's culture war show is skin-crawling
This comedy drama about a newsreader caught making misogynistic jokes is full of cartoonish depictions of young people. Steven Moffat's latest is neither funny nor interesting.
Joel Golby, The Guardian, 22nd June 2024Douglas Is Cancelled interview
Karen Gillan, Hugh Bonneville, writer Steven Moffat and executive producer Sue Vertue discuss social media and why "you can't cancel Donald Trump."
Georg Szalai, Hollywood Reporter, 29th February 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 2024Karen Gillan is Mary Tudor in Fools from Outnumbered's Guy Jenkin
Karen Gillan is to star as Mary Tudor in Fools, a historic comedy film from Outnumbered co-creator Guy Jenkin, co-starring Patsy Ferran as her court jester, Jane Foole.
British Comedy Guide, 9th 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 2023