Ms Ellen E. Jones
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Doctor Who Series 10: what to expect when the Time Lord returns with new companion Bill Potts
European Unions can crumble, global leaders will come and go, even the Great British Bake Off may find its greatness has diminished, but there will always be Doctor Who. → Read More
Popolo, restaurant review: Power to the people
I’m enough of an east London OG to remember when Shoreditch was definitely not where you’d want to be seen on a Friday night. As a child, if I dropped a “t” the standard parental admonishment was “Don’t talk like that, you sound like you’re from Hoxton” — Hoxtonites being the scummiest of the scum and certainly lower in the pecking order than those of us resident a few miles up the road in… → Read More
Oscars 2017: Gongs, gowns and Gibson’s comeback – everything you need to know
On Sunday night the 89th Academy Awards ceremony will take place at the Los Angeles Dolby Theatre, and even those of us stuck on this less glamorous side of the Atlantic can look forward to a glitzy parade of movie stars, rousing acceptance speeches and a musical performance from Hamilton’s Lin-Manuel Miranda. Whether you’re seeking inspiration for a drinking game, or just need some motivation… → Read More
Malachi Kirby: ‘Playing Kunta Kinte in Roots reboot allowed me to find my own roots’
One day, about five years ago, Malachi Kirby’s mother handed him a DVD boxset. “She wanted me to watch it. I didn’t know why, she’s never done that with anything else before, or to this day.” → Read More
How House of Cards, Homeland, Veep and Scandal will tackle Donald Trump’s presidency
“When they go low, we go high.” So said Michelle Obama in her Democratic Convention speech, during a presidential campaign which now feels like it happened 1,000 years ago. Yet, as the US and the rest of the world faces up to the Trump presidency, Obama’s phrase has taken on an unexpected relevance in TV. What could be more stimulating to these mostly Democrat-supporting writing teams than the… → Read More
Christina Ricci on Zelda Fitzgerald, motherhood, and taking Margot Robbie under her wing
What do most people know about Zelda Fitzgerald? Christina Ricci, who plays her in a new Amazon series, sums it up: “She was this crazy alcoholic who ruined F Scott Fitzgerald’s life. That’s the common assumption.” As Z: The Beginning of Everything shows, there was a lot more to the woman than that. Zelda Fitzgerald, nee Sayre, was a prodigious party-goer, yes, but also a women’s rights… → Read More
Billie Piper says City Of Tiny Lights shows ‘the real London I love’
Billie Piper says she is looking forward to showing London as the “modern and diverse” capital she loves in her big-screen return. The best actress winner at last year’s London Evening Standard Theatre Awards stars opposite Rogue One’s Riz Ahmed in City Of Tiny Lights, set in west London. → Read More
Secret Cinema founder Fabien Riggall on the importance of good ideas
Next Wednesday, at the Evening Standard’s Young Progress Makers event at the Roundhouse, Fabien Riggall will speak on the importance of that one, really good idea. It’s a subject about which the 41-year-old founder of Secret Cinema is particularly well placed to speak. → Read More
What politicians can learn about diplomacy from red carpet season
Boris is back from his “positive but frank” meeting with the incoming White House advisers, the PM’s top aides have made the same trip and Mrs May herself is busy prepping for her promised Trump tête-à-tête; Operation: Suck Up to the Americans is go go go, and is all the more urgent in the context of Britain’s rapidly disintegrating relationships closer to home. → Read More
Taboo’s Jessie Buckley: ‘I like to think I'd make a good James Bond’
It’s that time of year again: when payday seems a lifetime away, when the Dry January brigade are already sniffing Tipp-Ex fumes in desperation and — thank God — when Irish actress Jessie Buckley is giving the stand-out performance in a bar-raising new BBC One period drama. Last January she was Princess Marya Bolkonskaya in the impassioned adaptation of Tolstoy's War and Peace. "Oh God! The… → Read More
The best TV shows to watch in 2017 from Taboo to Twin Peaks
With the New Year comes a feast of new TV shows. From the return of Twin Peaks to the start of Tom Hardy’s Taboo, and the finale of cult series Girls, we’ve rounded up everything you need to be watching on the box in 2017. 1. Taboo → Read More
Witness for the Prosecution’s Billy Howle: ‘I don’t aspire to be a sex icon’
It takes a particular sort of man to compel women to behave the way they do in Agatha Christie’s Witness for the Prosecution. In the upcoming BBC adaptation (this year’s “Christie for Christmas”), it falls to 26-year-old actor Billy Howle to convey all the complexities of murder defendant Leonard Vole. And he’s very good at it. → Read More
Richard Goulding: 'I'm good at being posh
Yes, we do have a wreath for our front door and it’s not plastic… What is ‘posh’ though? I mean, come on...” Admittedly, one’s choice of Christmas decorations isn’t definitive proof of class status but still, if anyone should know what posh is, Richard Goulding should. → Read More
Why 2017 is the year we should all embrace adulthood
Languishing in an economically enforced state of arrested development is nothing new; ask any member of Generation Rent. Prioritising the prosecco fund over a pension plan seems only rational when you’re priced out of having children or buying a home — but 2016 went beyond all that. This year, fully sentient adults with Waitrose loyalty cards and good credit scores walked miles out of their way… → Read More
The best books for children this Christmas 2016
Books for younger children You can’t go wrong with a picture-book at Christmas, but you can sometimes get buried under a snowy avalanche of choice. These favourites from the past year are bound to not only delight the small children in your life but also meet with the approval of their super-chic parents. As an added bonus, many are such objects of beauty that your attempts at gift-wrapping may… → Read More
Evening Standard British Film Awards: Close up on the winners
The Evening Standard British Film Award judges weigh in on who won and why. New West End Company Award for Best Actress Kate Beckinsale, for her performance in Love & Friendship → Read More
Evening Standard British Film Awards – Vote for the year’s most magical moment
It’s the images that stay with you. Long after a film’s plot is a blur, the director’s name has been forgotten and even the title eludes you, a powerful scene will linger on, like an imprint on the subconscious, changing us in ways we’re yet to realise. → Read More
The Crown director Stephen Daldry on the Calais Jungle and being a reluctant monarchist
British dramas don’t get much more freighted with anticipation than The Crown, due to hit Netflix tomorrow. Its subject matter includes not just the biography of our 90-year-old monarch but post-war Britain in general, spread over a planned six seasons. → Read More
Charlotte Riley: ‘People like casting me as posh birds for some reason – it’s the opposite of who I am’
Something about Charlotte Riley seems to perfectly embody the spirit of post-war London. Stephen Poliakoff saw it when he cast her in his latest prestige TV drama, BBC2’s Close to the Enemy, which starts next week. She co-stars alongside Jim Sturgess, Angela Bassett and Alfred Molina as glamorous American divorcee Rachel Lombard. → Read More
How the ‘Strong Female Character’ trope has been replaced on TV
There was a time when Strong Female Characters were the first, last and middle item on every TV commissioner’s wishlist. Prestige drama, soap operas, sitcoms and police procedurals all had to have at least one. The Strong Female Character was a survivor. She’d been cheated on and done wrong by the men in her life but she’d come out the other side, stronger for it, because — importantly — her… → Read More