The BBC sitcom is critically loathed – but is it the worst thing to appear on our screens? Louis Chilton spends a week with Brendan O’Carroll’s ‘Mammy’ and her unbearable boys to find out for himself

The man who was the face of British stand-up has never been cool, but now his comedy is almost radioactively un-chic – and he only has himself to blame, writes Louis Chilton

From the influx of celebrity lookalike contests to Moo Deng’s viral fame and some baffling movie press tours, Louis Chilton and Katie Rosseinsky look back at the year in pop culture

From ‘Juno’ to ‘Fight Club’, Louis Chilton picks 17 films that have been misunderstood

For a while, the ‘Gladiator’ star was one of the finest actors around. Now, he’s slumming it in the terrible new Marvel adaptation ‘Kraven the Hunter’. Louis Chilton looks at how Crowe lost his way

Patrick Marber directs a crowd-pleasing new revival of Mel Brooks’s timeless musical at the Menier Chocolate Factory

Most seemed to agree with the judges’ decision

AI-generated commenters made inappropriate comments about the spike in streams after the death of Liam Payne

Craig portrays a gay character in the new film ‘Queer’

The explanation was surprising...

It’s a big one...

Presenter has been off screens since leaving ‘This Morning’ last year

Sale was nearly 10 times the predicted amount

Premiere of ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ was fraught with uncertainty

Please, please, please...

Reynolds played the lead role in the infamous 2011 flop

‘That’s the way it goes’

The series is now in its final stages

The ‘Dune’ star’s new film ‘A Complete Unknown’ has been given Dylan’s seal of approval. But recent history has shown that biopics should be careful when setting out to appease their own subjects, writes Louis Chilton

Host Alex Jones tried to ‘move past’ the comedian’s allusions to the ‘Masterchef’ presenter