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‘I was a tiny cog in a machine of people all named vice-president of something’: the reality of remaking UK sitcoms

The CBS version of the BBC comedy Ghosts is one of the biggest shows on American TV. But US remakes more often than not go south. Armando Iannucci and other creators share their horror stories

Daniel Dylan Wray

13, May, 2023 @10:55 AM

‘Doing Friends killed our cool’ – theme tune revelations from The Sopranos to The OC and more

The Friends anthem split the Rembrandts. Alabama 3 went partying with real mobsters. And Vonda Shepard ended up starring in Ally McBeal for years. Creators of legendary theme tunes relive their highs – and lows

Michael Hogan

10, Mar, 2023 @1:00 PM

War of Succession? HBO boss casts doubt on spin-off idea

Writer Jesse Armstrong has suggested characters could live on ‘in allied world’ but HBO boss may need some convincing

Vanessa Thorpe, Arts and Media correspondent

26, Feb, 2023 @8:17 AM

Peep Show: fifth US attempt to remake hit comedy series under way

Atlanta writer Stefani Robinson is taking charge of another effort to remake the British comedy but with two female leads

Benjamin Lee

13, Dec, 2022 @8:05 PM

Robert Popper: ‘I’ve said so many times: I hate my friends – they’re so close, they can annoy you’

Friday Night Dinner was famously based on the writer’s own family. So who was the inspiration for the bickering best mates of his new show I Hate You?

Rich Pelley

30, Sep, 2022 @10:00 AM

Succession returns: how did a nice lad from Oswestry make such a nasty TV show?

As the British writer’s tale of a media family’s power struggle returns to TV, we chart his path from Peep Show to global award-winning fame

Vanessa Thorpe

02, Oct, 2021 @6:00 PM

Isy Suttie: ‘I was shocked by how obsessed I became with getting pregnant’

The standup and actor on her debut novel about a woman trying to conceive, anxiety in the digital age, and the chances of a Peep Show reunion

Michael Hogan

10, Jul, 2021 @2:00 PM

Olivia Colman on acting: 'Take your job seriously and not yourself'

Star of The Crown and Peep Show opens up on her career, revealing she is plagued by self-doubt

Dalya Alberge

13, Dec, 2020 @3:08 PM

From Friends to the Fresh Prince, a theme tune can be as immortal as the show itself | Hannah Jane Parkinson

Opening music is the entrée to something delicious – sometimes I prefer it to the actual programme

Hannah Jane Parkinson

22, May, 2020 @6:00 AM

Winner, winner, stricken dinners: from Doctor Foster to Succession, TV's most awkward meals

Netflix thriller White Lines is the latest show to make the most of a dinner party confrontation. Here’s our countdown of the best

Laura Martin

19, May, 2020 @9:45 AM

David Mitchell: ‘I see myself as a coward’

The former Peep Show star felt right at home playing a lily-livered journalist in Michael Winterbottom’s film Greed. He talks about marriage, capitalism – and Armageddon

Tim Jonze

20, Feb, 2020 @6:00 AM

The 100 best TV shows of the 21st century

Where’s Mad Men? How did The Sopranos do? Does The Crown triumph? Can anyone remember Lost? And will Downton Abbey even figure? Find out here – and have your say

Kate Abbott, Hannah J Davies, Gwilym Mumford, Phil Harrison and Jack Seale

16, Sep, 2019 @5:00 AM