Lucy Mangan
Columnist and TV Critic at The Guardian
Guardian TV critic, author. Bookworm; a Memoir of Childhood Reading, is out in paperback now. New book (and first novel) Are We Having Fun Yet? out Oct 14
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1 week ago |
theguardian.com | Lucy Mangan
I suppose the wonder is that it has taken Guy Ritchie so long to get around to telling the story of the Millennium Dome robbery, in which – way back at the turn of the century, children – a group of south-east London criminals ram-raided a national joke in pursuit of the 203-carat Millennium Star diamond worth £200m, which De Beers had unaccountably agreed to display in the capital’s gangster heartland.
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1 week ago |
theguardian.com | Lucy Mangan
I do love a premise that is sheer simplicity, yet yields potentially infinite terror. I’m in, I say! Have at it! So I settled in for a right good terrify, courtesy of The Stolen Girl (adapted by Catherine Moulton from the 2020 thriller Playdate by Alex Dahl).
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1 week ago |
theguardian.com | Lucy Mangan
MondayIdeally, for diary purposes, it would be today, but we cannot allow simple chronological misfortune to allow yesterday to go unmarked. For 6 April 1990 was the day that married women became recognised by HMRC as beings – get this! – independent from their husbands, and started having their incomes taxed separately from their spouses’.
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1 week ago |
theguardian.com | Lucy Mangan
You can understand why it might take an actor a while to tackle another dramatic lead role on television when their first was a life-changing, career-defining part in a critically acclaimed landmark TV drama that ran for eight superlative seasons. But it is 10 years since Mad Men ended and only now is Jon Hamm re-entering the fray. He has mostly been busy with comedy roles in the intervening years.
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1 week ago |
msn.com | Lucy Mangan
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