Steve Coogan

Video - Michael Caine turns 80: the 6 best impressions

To mark Michael Caine's 80th birthday, Digital Spy has taken a trip through the video archives to unearth some of the best impersonations of the Brit actor. Includes Rob Brydon, Steve Coogan and Phil Cornwell.

Made by Steve Coogan's Baby Cow stable, Common Ground is a collection of ten 15-minute comedy shorts, each set in a neighbourhood in south London. Having featured Simon Day, Amelia Bullmore, Jessica Hynes and Charles Dance in previous weeks, the series concludes with Barry - based around Alex Lowe's octogenarian little Englander character which he honed by calling in to Iain Lee's LBC programme in the mid-2000s. With his wife having run off with a retired financial advisor, Barry embarks on a bucket list with his grandson.

It may not be earth-shatteringly original, but it's worth it just to hear Barry's view on pink candy floss: 'It's like eating Barbara Cartland's minge.' A (fictional) former member of So Solid Crew takes over a church choir in the far-funnier Nell, Ted and Marlon. It quickly descends into a creepy love triangle (with One Foot In the Grave actress Annette Crosbie occasionally chiming in with some unexpected filth); the humour is sharp, surreal and pleasantly wicked in places.

Video: Steve Coogan 'armed' on Cromer Pier

Early visitors to north Norfolk were up with the Partridge on Monday to enjoy glimpses of Steve Coogan on Cromer Pier reprising his role of the spoof DJ.

Steve Coogan film shoots on Cromer Pier

Gunfire is predicted in north Norfolk at the weekend when filming of the long-awaited movie about spoof DJ Alan Partridge comes to Cromer.

UKTV keen to see funny side

UKTV has pledged to order risky and ambitious shows, and wants more original scripted comedy ideas after revealing plans for its first sitcom. Speaking at a Broadcast Breakfast Briefing earlier this week, controller Emma Tennant and director of commissioning Jane Rogerson said they were also looking for UKTV's version of The Trip, the Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon fronted comedy that aired on BBC2. Rogerson said UKTV is keen to develop further comedy ideas for both Gold and male-skewing network Dave.

Alan Partridge returns to Norfolk to film movie scenes

Later this month Steve Coogan will be bringing the character to Sheringham town centre and Cromer Pier to film scenes for the long-awaited film Alan Partridge: The Movie.

Steve Coogan makes a suitably un-avuncular narrator in this nightmare-before-Christmas tale for older animation fans with a taste for something darker, as spouses Julian Barratt and Julia Davis supply voices. What to buy a boy who has everything? A giant crab, of course.

Joel Veitch - he of the dancing internet cats - writes, and Steve Coogan, Julia Davis and Julian Barratt star in this wonky animated tale of greying Uncle Wormsley and young, wealthy Johnny Goodington. Johnny wants a giant crab for Christmas, but the only person who has one is Wormsley. The boy's parents decide to call in The Crab Catchers to guarantee their precious boy his wish. But at what price? A skewwhiff morality tale that calls to mind Warp Films' superb Bunny and the Bull in tone, this is a weird, exciting half-hour break from the norm.

An earlier slot might have been more suitable for this rudimentary animated children's fable. It's a gruesome, cautionary tale about love, greed and a giant crab, written by Tim Gallagher and Joel Veitch, and produced by Baby Cow. Steve Coogan narrates the story of a miserably creepy, grey old man, Uncle Wormsley, whose sole companion is a huge crab that he keeps in a cage and to whom he feeds the neighbours' pets. Across town lives the spoilt Johnnie, whose parents are obscenely wealthy and who is given everything he wants. But the one thing he craves is a giant crab and so his father enters into a devilish pact with the mysterious "crab-catchers". Julian Barratt, John Thomson and Julia Davis provide the voices.

Steve Coogan: We've been betrayed by Cameron on Leveson

I was one of the victims of phone hacking, and am disgusted that the PM has sided with the Fleet Street bullies.