Richard Curtis

Radio Times review

If you are going to have someone sing your praises then one of the most successful and richest authors on the planet is probably as good a person as any. Harry Potter author JK Rowling was, at the time of going to press, among a host of top names lined up to pay tribute to her friend Peter Kay in this celebration of the Phoenix Nights and Car Share comedian's career.

She will be joined by Four Weddings and a Funeral and Love Actually scriptwriter Richard Curtis and author and broadcaster Danny Baker.

From his childhood growing up in Bolton, to the places, people and foodstuffs ("Garlic bread!") that have influenced his life and work, the profile will chart his rise "to become a household name and national treasure".

Thompson and Rickman DID live happily ever after

While Love Actually may have left audiences with a warm, fuzzy feeling the world over; it's certainly left many with unanswered questions.

But script writer Emma Freud went some way to putting those queries to bed this week when she live tweeted during husband - and the film's director - ]Richard Curtis's first cinema experience of the 2003 rom-com classic.

Richard Curtis checks with UN over animal ad

Film director Richard Curtis had to phone the UN to make sure they didn't mind being portrayed as animals in a new cinema ad to promote global development goals.

Richard Curtis has no plans to revive Blackadder

Richard Curtis has bad news for Blackadder fans - there are no plans to resurrect the show.

Richard Curtis interview

Notting Hill director fears he helped gentrify London.

Richard Curtis & Lenny Henry thank everyone at the BBC

"Without the BBC, we would have been a group of dodgy comedians wishing we could help a bit in 1985"

Richard Curtis on his 30 years of Comic Relief

Today, on Red Nose Day 2015, Richard talks us through his own Comic Relief highlights over three decades...

Dustin Hoffman and Judi Dench acted together, and wonderfully, in Esio Trot, an essentially children's book brought to the screen. Roald Dahl's tale of late-blooming love, revolving around a tortoise (spell it backwards), with its incremental-growth trick giving me goosepimples for the sublime The Twits, was undermined by the inclusion of actor James Corden and writer Richard Curtis, but not much: Dahl's intention survived, just. He was a wonderfully dark man.

Esio Trot makes for a twee, syrupy adaptation

In the hands of Richard Curtis, this was gentler viewing than Balamory.

Roald Dahl's Esio Trot review

Much criticism has been levelled at Peter Jackson over his decision to turn The Hobbit into three movies, with the final film running at around two minutes per page of the book. However, the book on which the 90-minute Esio Trot is based contains just 45 pages of text - only one of which doesn't contain any of Quentin Blake's marvellous illustrations. Consequently, it would probably be fairer to call the film Richard Curtis's Esio Trot, such is the amount of material that's been added for this adaptation.