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Chicken Run: Dawn Of The Nugget review

This streamer's hotly-anticipated sequel, which opened the London Film Festival, feels less like a triumph and more like a cock-up.

Chicken Run: Dawn Of The Nugget review

Aardman's long-awaited sequel to its most successful feature ever is set to become a family favourite.

Mel Gibson fired from Chicken Run sequel

Mel Gibson has been axed from the Netflix Chicken Run sequel.

It comes after the actor - who played Rocky in the 2000 original - was accused of making an anti-Semitic remark to Winona Ryder in 1995.

A hen-tastic animated spoof of The Great Escape by the Wallace & Gromit team. It's set on Tweedys' prison camp-cum-egg farm, where the chickens plot a soaring escape over the barbed wire. Mel Gibson voices Rocky the Rooster, but the rich tone - two parts hilarity to one pathos - is set by splendid Brit comics such as Jane Horrocks, Julia Sawalha and Timothy Spall.

Pippa Evans - 'Mel Gibson is a very attractive man!'

Fancy spending the day with Pippa Evans? For the 2015 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Pippa is appearing in no less than three shows. Pippa tells Martin Walker of her love for Brian Conley - and attempts to convince him that it's nothing to be ashamed of.

Frazzled Welshman Rhod Gilbert is our energetic host tonight, bringing us another slice of stand-up from the Hammersmith Apollo. Both Gilbert and guest Jon Richardson poke fun at their comic personas. Gilbert takes us through his anger management journal ("sort of a cross between Bridget Jones's Diary and Mel Gibson's"). Richardson makes light of his OCD, moaning about his messy flatmates ("adults who eat cereal at night-time"). Sandwiched between the boys comes likeable Kerry Godliman taking a pop at wedding proposals and bridezillas.

Aardman Animations, the studio behind many of Nick Park's triumphs, conjures another stop-motion corker that fairly swarms with clever little jokes and details. Our heroes here are a group of jauntily anthropomorphic chickens; they're plotting their escape to freedom from the tyrannical Mr and Mrs Tweedy, who run the farm on which they live. The voice cast boasts Julia Sawalha, Jane Horrocks and Mel Gibson.

Aardman Animations, the studio behind Wallace & Gromit, conjures another stop-motion corker that swarms with clever jokes and details. Our heroes are anthropomorphic chickens plotting their escape from the tyrannical Mr and Mrs Tweedy. Mel Gibson and Julia Sawalha are among the voices.