Matthew Macfadyen

Succession recap: season four, episode four – did Logan mean it … or cross it out?

A scribbled note reveals the deceased patriarch’s choice for heir – or does it? One ‘undated doodle’ may prove to be the Roys’ downfall

Michael Hogan

17, Apr, 2023 @9:10 PM

Succession season four review – even diehard fans will be glad the end is nigh

TV’s most agonising, pulverising drama is back for its final season, and ‘the rats’ are having one last stab at patricide. Will any of us survive battle Roy-al?

Lucy Mangan

22, Mar, 2023 @7:01 AM

Shiv, Logan – or Cousin Greg? Who will come out on top in Succession?

As the hit drama’s final season approaches, it’s all-out war for the title of CEO at Waystar Royco – but who will claim the ultimate prize?

Stuart Heritage

21, Mar, 2023 @8:00 AM

The week in TV: Happy Valley; Stonehouse; The Rig; Ukraine: The People’s Fight

Sarah Lancashire returns as the hardest sergeant on the small screen; Matthew Macfadyen plays Westminster’s own Reggie Perrin for laughs; and Olly Lambert goes the extra mile in Ukraine

Barbara Ellen

08, Jan, 2023 @9:30 AM

John Stonehouse paved the way for today’s sleazy members – only he didn’t get away with it | Catherine Bennett

His rackety life and faked death, as portrayed in a new ITV drama, seems almost quaint compared with the brazenness of MPs today

Catherine Bennett

07, Jan, 2023 @9:37 PM

TV tonight: Matthew Macfadyen and Keeley Hawes in MP scandal drama

Macfadyen plays Labour politician John Stonehouse who attempted to fake his own death. Plus: Frozen Planet II: World of Wonder. Here’s what to watch this evening

Phil Harrison, Danielle De Wolfe, Ellen E Jones, Jack Seale and Graeme Virtue

02, Jan, 2023 @6:20 AM

From Britney Spears to John Stonehouse, a great true-life story is worth telling again and again | Keely Winstone

I thought I had the tale of the vanishing MP to myself, but I’m glad I was wrong

Keely Winstone

31, Dec, 2022 @7:00 PM

Family of fraud scandal MP John Stonehouse in plea over new TV drama

Daughter of Labour cabinet minister who faked his own death in Miami in 1974 fears spying charges will feature in ITV show

Vanessa Thorpe Arts and media correspondent

24, Jul, 2022 @7:45 AM

Operation Mincemeat review – Blimpish take on Ben Macintyre’s spy thriller

Colin Firth, Matthew Macfadyen and Kelly Macdonald provide some ballast in John Madden’s overburdened adaptation

Xan Brooks

17, Apr, 2022 @10:00 AM

Need a warped, tortured or evil character for a Hollywood film? Cast a British actor

UK stars Olivia Colman, Idris Elba and Benedict Cumberbatch are all in demand with US directors. We look at why

Vanessa Thorpe

18, Dec, 2021 @3:28 PM

Succession review: smash hit reaches fabulous new heights of comedy – and cruelty

From the bloody machinations of Logan and Kendall to Cousin Greg’s buffoonery, the third series of the HBO drama continues to deliver the most thrilling and beautifully obscene TV there is

Rebecca Nicholson

18, Oct, 2021 @9:05 PM

Succession season three review – as glorious and furious as ever

We’re back with the monstrous Roy family in the immediate aftermath of Kendall’s live TV address – and the hit show is still exquisite agony to behold