Press clippings Page 25
Why Hollywood can't make its mind up about billionaires
Steve Coogan's take on Philip Green is the latest in a long list of tycoons portrayed on screen, ranging from corrupt tax avoiders to smouldering heroes.
Steve Rose, The Guardian, 17th February 2020Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan interview
The Trip is heading to Greece for its fourth - and possibly final - leg. What has 10 years of sparring done to its stars?
Laura Barton, The Guardian, 15th February 2020This Time With Alan Partridge to return
This Time With Alan Partridge is to return to BBC One for a second series, Steve Coogan has said. He's also revealed a Partridge podcast will be launched soon.
British Comedy Guide, 14th February 2020Steve Coogan talks about taking on the fashion industry
The latest collaboration between Coogan and director Michael Winterbottom targets the moral bankruptcy of the super-rich.
The Big Issue, 14th February 2020Steve Coogan and Michael Winterbottom on Greed
The actor and director's business satire takes aim at the disgraced retail mogul Philip Green. They talk about celebrity, hypocrisy and showbiz moralising.
Henry Mance, The Financial Times, 6th February 2020The Trip to end after Series 4
The Trip will be ending after series four, as Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan confirmed they were hanging up their driving gloves with one last spin around the traps together.
Metro, 5th February 2020Alan Partridge fan spends hours finding festival props
An Alan Partridge fan said he has spent hours scouring for "hundreds and hundreds" of second-hand props for a festival honouring the comic creation.
BBC, 23rd January 2020Steve Coogan to star in Channel 4 #MeToo comedy drama
Steve Coogan is to star as a film producer in a new Channel 4 comedy drama based around the #MeToo movement. Sarah Solemani will co-star in Chivalry.
British Comedy Guide, 13th January 2020Alan Partridge is at his best when he's in the doldrums - living in a Travel Tavern, binging on Toblerone, networking at a funeral. For almost three decades, we had watched Britain's least in-demand broadcaster fall further and further from grace - until, that is, he landed an unexpected guest-hosting gig on This Time. Since when did glossy BBC magazine shows start recruiting from North Norfolk Digital? Not only did Alan's appointment make frustratingly little sense, his freedom to interrupt the studied blandness of teatime TV with bombastic VTs failed to ring true. Nerdy rationality aside, something else was awry with Partridge 9.0 - namely, the fact that he was flying high. Despite his endless gaffes, he suddenly had status, and the hubris-fuelled nightmare that had hitherto been his career was abruptly ended. Of course, you cringed for him, but it turns out it's hard to feel affection for a Partridge on the up. Thankfully, judging by the closing episode's cliffhanger, Norwich's finest seems to have blown his chance at the big time once again.
Rachel Aroesti, The Guardian, 23rd December 2019The 50 best TV shows of 2019: No 8 - This Time
The king of bad chat and awkward mansplaining was back on a BBC sofa in one of Coogan and co's most nuanced creations.
David Stubbs, The Guardian, 10th December 2019