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Steven Moffat

Steven Moffat

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Douglas Is Cancelled review

Hugh Bonneville is disarming in Steven Moffat's uneven comedy

i Newspaper, 27th June 2024

Douglas Is Cancelled review

Rows about cancel culture tend to be reductive. A clear binary between those who harrumph "you can't say anything any more" and the righteously censorious. A nuanced path somewhere between the two is probably society's best way forward, but as a savvy newspaper editor says in Steven Moffat's twisty new comedy-drama Douglas Is Cancelled: "Outrage is exciting, nuance is work."

Steve Bennett, Chortle, 27th June 2024

Douglas Is Cancelled review

You might hate this show for daring to exist.

Lucy Mangan, The Guardian, 27th June 2024

Douglas Is Cancelled review

Cancel culture drama offers only sermons, moral binaries and easy answers.

Nick Hilton, The Independent, 27th June 2024

Douglas Is Cancelled review

Karen Gillan steals the show in Steven Moffat's sharp satire of TV news.

Aidan Smith, The Scotsman, 27th June 2024

Douglas Is Cancelled review

Why hire a female writer to give a woman's take on misogyny and cancel culture when Steven Moffat thinks he can do it better?

Anita Singh, The Telegraph, 27th June 2024

Douglas Is Cancelled preview

There have been so many trailers for new ITV1 comedy drama Douglas Is Cancelled I felt like I'd seen it before I hit the play button. And even when I'd hit the button and watched the first episode a lot of it was scarily familiar. But in a Good Way.

Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 26th June 2024

Douglas Is Cancelled review

Steven Moffat's delicious satire is unafraid to take aim at youthful snowflakes and puritans.

Rachel Cooke, The New Statesman, 26th June 2024

Douglas Is Cancelled: Hugh Bonneville's culture war show is skin-crawling

This comedy drama about a newsreader caught making misogynistic jokes is full of cartoonish depictions of young people. Steven Moffat's latest is neither funny nor interesting.

Joel Golby, The Guardian, 22nd June 2024

Hugh Bonneville, Alex Kingston and Steven Moffat on their cancel comedy

As Douglas Is Cancelled prepares to air, Moffat talks about career implosions, Bonneville relives past nude scenes - and Kingston recalls the "wandering hands" warnings she used to be given.

Mark Lawson, The Guardian, 17th June 2024

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