‘I’ve become more like Gavin’: I talked to Mat Horne about shooting the last ever Gavin & Stacey (‘I was inconsolable’), his ‘chaos’ years with James Corden, fatherhood, going on stage with Sigourney Weaver and how he finally made peace with being Gavin thetimes.com/article/a13488…

How are they possibly going to top this

Happy Christmas one and all! x

Well this sounds iconic

Interesting…

If there are two sisters on the show surely one of them has to be a Traitor otherwise what’s the point? Why has no one said this. Come on guysssss #Traitors

Nothing says 2 January like “The surprising life of slime mould” — coming up next on Radio 4

Very happy to have written a few words about Polly Jones' excellent new book on Gulag fiction for The TLS. Really terrific overview and close readings of various texts and trends, older and recent! the-tls.co.uk/regular-featur…

COME ON LUKE

The greatest show? Just a bit!! Couldn’t have loved Ball and Boe Soho Theatre more. Get well soon

Nothing personal I love you to bits I can’t spell your name but myself voted for yourself #TheTraitorsUK

Your Mum with her flip case, filming you opening your Birthday present #TheTraitors

"I ask Vetro for any last words of advice as I prepare to subject my family, who have always been so rude about my singing, to a dulcet-toned rendition of Lay Lady Lady. ‘My advice is simple,' he says. ‘Don’t do it!'" Love this ⁦Will Hodgkinson⁩ thetimes.com/article/b41267…

This is so fun by ⁦Ed Potton⁩ thetimes.com/article/5f015f…

What a joy The Producers is. A cast to marvel at and a production packed with the wittiest, silliest details. Magic. Surely it must transfer (tho the close-ups at Menier Chocolate Factory are very much part of the pleasure)

“Colleagues predicted that Corbet would never be permitted to make a movie again.” Fascinating interview about the “agony” of making The Brutalist. Mark Rylance was originally cast as the lead! The director was on a drip during the shoot! It only cost $9m! thetimes.com/article/977112…

“I’ve always thought of Amanda as an arrested teenager. She’s a mean girl.” I interviewed Lucy Punch about school Whatsapp groups, posh accents, Joanna Lumley, life with Dinos Chapman and escaping the LA fires. Amandaland starts tonight and is VERY funny thetimes.com/article/f55d29…

THIRTY MILLION watched Den serve Angie with divorce papers in 1986 - now, not so many.... What's happened to our soap operas? Excellent digging and explaining by Andrew Billen

My interview with Jessica Stanley about writing the romcom of the summer, her own real-life meet-cute, her Alan Hollinghurst obsession and making the Times parliamentary sketchwriter her romantic hero - a subject on which I have *some thoughts* thetimes.com/article/05105d…