Pamela Anderson

Baron Cohen says Borat caused Pamela Anderson's divorce

Sacha Baron Cohen has revealed that the controversial Pamela Anderson "kidnapping" scene featured in Borat had devastating repercussions for the Baywatch star's marriage.

Film of the day: Borat

Balls-out fearlessness from Baron Cohen coupled with gut-wrenching laughs and moments toe-curling social awkwardness.

Brendan O'Carroll's Irish mammy has bossed her way through radio plays, novels, stage shows, an unstoppable sitcom and a movie. So deploying her as a Saturday night chatshow host welcoming celebs into the Brown family lounge - a place where the fourth wall is regularly demolished - doesn't actually seem that weird. Pop prophet Louis Walsh, tennis matriarch Judy Murray and a presumably bemused Pamela Anderson are the first guests.

All Round To Mrs Brown's preview

This probably isn't going to be the saviour of Saturday night TV - and is less appealing than Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway - but it's a natural progression of the Agnes Brown 'brand' and, perhaps surprisingly, not as dire as the sitcom that spawned it. Is that progress?

All Round to Mrs Brown's: ultimate Marmite TV creation

All Round To Mrs Brown's is another step in the BBC's mystifyingly popular cash cow's road to potty-mouthed world domination, with Agnes setting herself up as a rival to Graham Norton, Jonathan Ross et al.

All Round to Mrs Brown's review

The Saturday night entertainment series delivers exactly what you'd expect from the nation's most notorious mammy.

All Round to Mrs Brown's - review

Brendan O'Carroll agnostics will decry further airtime for the comedian as yet another indication that humanity has outlived its usefulness. But, in addition to a dirty mind, All Round to Mrs Brown's had a big heart and that made it just about tolerable.

Preview - All Round to Mrs. Brown's

Love it or hate it, there is still at least one positive to take from it: it can't be any worse than The Nightly Show.

Back when he could still get away with hiding behind a large moustache, a Golden Globe winning Sacha Baron Cohen took various dim, unsuspecting Americans for a ride with this controversial mockumentary.

Posing as journalist Borat Sagdiyev, a racist, anti-Semitic simpleton from Kazakhstan, the London comic actor here goes to the US on a simple quest to find and marry Pamela Anderson.

Oscar-nominated for its screenplay, it was banned in all Arab countries except Lebanon and was initially denounced by the Kazakh government, who then embraced it when it was shown to have caused a surge in tourist interest.

Sacha Baron Cohen is a brave man. In this insensitive, vulgar and hilarious comedy, in which he meets real Americans while in the guise of a crude Kazakh reporter, he enrages a crowd of rednecks, insults the guests at a fine dining society and stalks Pamela Anderson. It's remarkable nobody throttles him.