And they call it Buffy love

On the tenth anniversary of Buffy The Vampire Slayer hitting British screens Julian Hall talks to its creator Joss Whedon about the show’s Englishness and its resonance from beyond the grave

This year sees the tenth anniversary of Joss Whedon’s Buffy The Vampire [...]

He’s a shadowy figure lurking in the background in the corporate law drama Damages, initially a slow-burner in The Wire and a man alone with his thoughts playing Nelson Mandela in the forthcoming Channel 4 drama Endgame.

In person Clarke Peters is almost an open book. It’s him, not his PR, [...]

Stand-up Dylan Moran takes on the world

What do you do when you hate celebrity, advertising, technology and interviews? Start telling it like it is, says the Black Books star on the eve of his tour

By Julian Hall

Tuesday, 23 September 2008

Approach with [...]

In the mid-Eighties, when that small club, the Comedy Store, was solidly part of the comedy establishment, an 18-year-old Rock was spotted at New York’s the Comic Strip Live by Eddie Murphy. Rock has eventually taken Murphy’s mantle of the US’s highest-profile comedian, first paying his dues on Saturday Night Live and surviving [...]

She describes herself as something “between an entertainer and part of the populace”; a fellow commentator has called her “the insider’s outsider”. Sandra Bernhard’s dichotomy is plain for me to see as soon as I arrive at our meeting point, a restaurant on Greenwich Avenue, in her New York neighbourhood. The grand [...]

How we met: Danny Brocklehurst & Max Beesley

‘I have a difficult relationship with actors. It doesn’t always do to be friends with them’

Interview by Julian Hall
Sunday, 10 June 2007

Danny Brocklehurst, 35 won a Bafta for his screenwriting contributions to ‘Shameless’. Among other [...]