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Funnyman Steve Coogan's three-part drama Sunshine had a few rays of humour but, while it was a good concept, the BBC show wasn't that bright.

James Rampton visits the set of BBC1's dustmen comedy Sunshine to find out why, after trying to crack Hollywood, Steve Coogan has returned to his roots Sunshine, BBC1's new comedy drama starring Steve Coogan, ...

ARGGHHHHHH! That's what it says on the front of Simon Pegg's T-shirt - " and it could easily describe any number of emotions he has felt since landing in Tinseltown.

Sunshine Tuesday, BBC1, 9pm Sanctuary Monday, ITV4, 9pm Imagine: The Story of the Guitar Sunday, BBC1, 10:50pm BEWARE OF A STRANGE BURNING sensation on Tuesday night.

Dominic Cavendish reviews Steve Coogan at the Victoria Hall, Stoke-on-Trent He should have quit while he was ahead.

Simon Pegg may be arriving as a bonafide Hollywood movie star this week with the release of How To Lose Friends And Alienate People , but it's been a long and diverse road to leading man status for the ...

He is taking a break from Hollywood to star in Sunshine, the latest slice of life from the writers of The Royle Family.

Hurrah, friend of the blog Ian Greaves' book on Weekending is out! "In the spring of 1970, BBC Radio 4 premiered a new late-night topical sketch show.

With the queer premise of an offbeat high school drama teacher putting on a controversial musical adaptation of Shakespeare's classic tragedy featuring song titles like "Rock Me Sexy Jesus" and "Gay as the Day ...

Steve Coogan talks to Ben Walters about his return to stand-up comedy "Part of me is petrified," says Steve Coogan, puffing out his cheeks, "but I will not let my enemies bring me down." Next month, Coogan will ...

Dinner drama Catherine Keener and Steve Coogan star in Andy Fleming's irreverent comedy "Hamlet 2," a Focus Features release.

A high school drama teacher , trying to save his department that is about to be cut, stages an elaborate production of his own play, HAMLET 2. Who made it? Director and co-writer Andrew Fleming previously ...

To be or not to be famous in America? That is the question for Steve Coogan. Steve Coogan, the British comedian, is getting buzz for his roles in "Tropic Thunder" and "Hamlet 2," in which he stars with Melonie ...

To die, to sleep. To sleep, perchance to ... giggle? That's the question asked by "Hamlet 2," a twisted new comedy that watches as a desperate, self-deluded drama teacher in Tucson tries to save his funding by ...

"Hamlet 2" is a mildly entertaining riff on those movies about the outmatched but inspiring educator in the inner city.

In the early '90s, before ABBA enjoyed its post-disco popularity surge, Steve Coogan decided to borrow one of the band's song titles for the name of his faux TV chat show, Knowing Me, Knowing You ... With Alan ...

Steve Coogan is a marvelous comic actor whose funniest work, for those who don't live in England, is tantalizingly out of reach. On British TV or in live performance he has played, for starters, an airhead talk show host, a sleazy Portuguese singer, and a drugged-out ex-roadie who now works as an exterminator.

If you've seen Coogan in the movies, it's probably been in "24 Hour Party People," as the record impresario Tony Wilson, or in Jim Jarmusch's "Coffee and Cigarettes," where he and Alfred Molina, playing actors, improvise the ultimate backstabby Hollywood encounter. He also has a small but pungent role as the movie director in "Tropic Thunder."

Until today, Steve Coogan was probably best known to American moviegoers as the frazzled film director who loses his head in "Tropic Thunder" or Phileas Fogg in the Disney version of "Around the World in 80 ...

Steve Coogan is considered a comedic genius in his British homeland, although he's not as well known here in the U.S. Coogan's specialty is deadpan performances which shred the conventions of television, movies ...

Anglophiles, you have spoken. In answer to Monday's query - ' Why isn't Steve Coogan a bigger U.S. star? - ' some of you said he was excellent but too esoteric for American tastes.