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Katherine Parkinson

June 2025

  • Three-way image showing John Lithgow, Paapa Essiedu and Katherine Parkinson

    ‘Please walk away from Harry Potter’: why the stars of HBO’s new TV show are in for decades of social media hell

    The internet is already exploding about Katherine Parkinson, John Lithgow and Paapa Essiedu signing up to the new Hogwarts adventures – and it hasn’t even started filming

December 2024

  • She stands in a field, wearing a demure dress and riding boots

    2024 in TV
    Katherine Parkinson on Rivals: ‘I’m just a normal 47-year-old woman who has breastfed two girls’

    Her dynamite romance with Danny Dyer in the raunchy Jilly Cooper hit is the living definition of screen chemistry. The actor opens up about booze, being sexual – and why the porn generation have got it all wrong

September 2022

  • Katherine Parkinson (Beatrice) in her dressing room before rehearsals

    Much Ado About Nothing: backstage for NT Live – in pictures

    We joined rehearsals for the National Theatre’s production of Shakespeare’s comedy starring Katherine Parkinson before its live broadcast to UK cinemas on 8 September
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July 2022

  • John Heffernan and Katherine Parkinson in Much Ado About Nothing at the National.

    The week in theatre: Much Ado About Nothing; Jack Absolute Flies Again; Crazy for You

  • Wendy Kweh, Katherine Parkinson and Ioanna Kimbook in Much Ado About Nothing at the NT (c) Manuel Harlan

    Much Ado About Nothing review – screwball Shakespeare goes with a swing

May 2022

  • Jim Howick wears shirt by Nanushka at selfridges.com.

    ‘We were always trying to push boundaries’: Jim Howick on breaking taboos, coping with life and the joy of dogs

  • Lauren (Katherine Parkinson) with Lola (Maila Latukefu) and Abby (Harper Nichols).

    TV review
    Spreadsheet review – Katherine Parkinson’s sex sitcom does not belong in 2022

  • Katherine Parkinson and Rowan Witt in Spreadsheet.

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: Katherine Parkinson wants commitment-free sex in new dating drama

  • Marcus (William Jackson Harper) and Mia (Jessica Williams) in Love Life.

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: Love Life’s second season is even funnier than the first

April 2022

  • My family and other animals … (From left) Jude Morgan-Collie, Mica Ricketts, Alison Steadman, Freya Parks, Jim Howick, Tom Basden, Katherine Parkinson.

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: Alison Steadman is an interfering grandma in new BBC sitcom

    Katherine Parkinson also navigates life’s everyday mundanities in Here We Go. Plus: Not Going Out heads to the woods in search of drugs. Here’s what to watch this evening

March 2022

  • Mathew Horne as Jamie and Catherine Tate as Nan in The Nan Movie.

    Catherine Tate’s The Nan Movie: when sketch characters run out of road

  • ‘A 24-hour-garage sandwich of a film’ … The Nan Movie.

    The Nan Movie review – brutally unfunny outing for Catherine Tate’s sweary old lady

June 2021

  • the playwright Laura Wade.

    Lack of support for theatre is to discourage dissent, says top playwright

    Laura Wade, writer of Posh and Home, I’m Darling, criticises government’s attitude to industry as unions fight cuts to performing arts degrees

April 2021

  • Katherine Parkinson

    The funniest thing
    Katherine Parkinson: 'I dreamed I was riding a dog – it was quite beautiful'

    The Bafta award-winning comedy actor and The IT Crowd star on the things that make her laugh the most

March 2021

  • Alex Horne

    'Reinvent the macarena': Taskmaster's Alex Horne sets us four fiendish new challenges

    The smash Channel 4 show returns for its 11th season this week. To mark the occasion, the show’s assistant set our writer four challenges to fulfil – is he up to the task?

December 2020

  • Taskmaster’s Daisy May Cooper, Johnny Vegas, Greg Davies, Richard Herring, Alex Horne, Katherine Parkinson and Mawaan Rizwan.

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: Taskmaster; Dementia Choir at Christmas; The Year That Changed Love; Nadiya's American Adventure

    An unmissable comedy challenge, a gentle spotlight on people with dementia, and Nadiya warms up America

October 2020

  • The tasks need to be stupid but not ludicrous ... Alex Horne and Mawaan Rizwan in Taskmaster.

    TV review
    Taskmaster review – a delightfully daft diversion from the world

  • Taskmaster Greg Davies (right) with co-host Alex Horne.

    ‘Rage, clumsiness and brains’: the joy of Taskmaster, TV's funniest show

September 2020

  • Katherine Parkinson

    The Q&A
    Katherine Parkinson: 'I bought a Chanel dress with my first proper paycheck. It's hideous'

    The actor on learning ancient Greek from scratch, missing out on MI5 and the book that changed her life

March 2020

  • Katherine Parkinson (Viv) and Tom Kanji (Kenny) in Shoe Lady at the Royal Court theatre, London

    Shoe Lady review – Katherine Parkinson's off-kilter commuter delights

    Vicky Featherstone directs EV Crowe’s play about a working mother who loses a shoe and her grip on reality
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