Aisling Bea: Older Than Jesus review – glamourpuss meets accidental mum in a scatty show
The sitcom star and Taskmaster stalwart is on commanding form as she embarks on her first – and deeply daft – standup tour
December 2025
Stephen Fry and Joanna Lumley among celebrities urging UK not to weaken torture protections
Public figures sign letter saying plan to reinterpret ECHR for asylum seekers is ‘affront to us all’ and a threat to security
January 2025
Get Away review – Nick Frost ramps up the ridiculousness in comedy horror
An almighty twist and a demented finale rescue the Shaun of the Dead actor’s cartoonish homage to folk horrors – but co-star Aisling Bea deserves better
August 2024
‘You laugh the hardest in grief’: And Mrs, the cathartic romcom about marrying your dead fiance
And Mrs review – love never dies for Aisling Bea in barmy Brit romcom
April 2024
Swede Caroline review – marrow mockumentary is gourd for a laugh
Zany caper follows Jo Hartley as a big-veg enthusiast defending her patch from elaborate ill-doings
February 2024
Observer New Review Q&A
Aisling Bea: ‘Bury me in a coffin made out of potato waffles’
The actor and screenwriter on bouncing off Domhnall Gleeson in Alice & Jack, why Irish stars are having a moment, and the legacy of Sinéad O’Connor
TV tonight
TV tonight: shock call pitches happy pair into a tangled romantic drama
Mad Men writer Victor Levin brings love triangle Alice & Jack to Channel 4. Plus: After the Flood’s suspect is on the loose with a gun. Here’s what to watch this evening
Andrew Scott: sex scenes less ‘embarrassing’ for audience if one actor plays both characters
The Fleabag star, who took all eight roles in the solo show Vanya, says intimate scenes on stage can be discomfiting for viewers
December 2023
TV review
Smothered review – this fresh twist on a romcom is utterly lovely
‘We didn’t want it to be like Bridget Jones’s Diary’: Smothered, TV’s most brilliant new romcom
June 2023
This much I know
Aisling Bea: ‘I rebuilt my bathroom around my Bafta’
The comedian and actor on enjoying her awards, learning to be funny and where her happy place is
Greatest Days review – nostalgic, by-numbers Take That musical
A winning central performance from Aisling Bea is the bright spot in this predictable adaptation of the jukebox musical
Greatest Days review – Take That musical offers blast of feelgood reunion excitement
Aisling Bea rounds up old school friends to watch the reunited boyband in Athens and, amid the laughs, confront what happened when they last saw them 25 years ago
April 2022
TV tonight
TV tonight: the Manchester Arena attack victim who grew up 10 miles from bomber Salman Abedi
Worlds Collide looks at the aftermath of the Ariana Grande concert bombing. Plus: Joe Lycett gets cooking with Aisling Bea in Split. Here’s what to watch this evening
November 2021
Home Sweet Home Alone review – surprisingly funny festive sequel
Borat co-writer Dan Mazer and a comically adept cast including Ellie Kemper, Kenan Thompson and Rob Delaney, make for a diverting enough retread
October 2021
Aisling Bea: ‘I was completely burnt out – I definitely became less nice’
Do we really need a new version of Home Alone?
August 2021
TV tonight
TV tonight: Changing Rooms is back … and it’s had a makeover of its own
