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Videos
The first trailer has been released for the upcoming Channel 4 drama in which Steve Coogan plays veteran TV journalist Brian Walden opposite Harriet Walter as Margaret Thatcher.
Brian and Maggie revolves around the pair’s last televised clash in 1989, which became one of the most famous political exchanges of all time and helped set in train a series of events that ended with Thatcher’s resignation
The two-part series was written by James Graham and based on Rob Burley’s book Why is This Lying Bastard Lying to Me?: Searching for the Truth on Political TV.
It has been made by Coogan’s production company Baby Cow Productions, but no air date has yet been confire,d.
Trailer for Steve Coogan in Brian and Maggie
With Harriet Walter as Margaret Thatcher
Rose Matafeo on Late Night with Seth Meyers
Speaking about her stand-up special and Moana 2
SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night trailer
New documentary series about an American institution
Mary O'Connell on Comedy Central Live
Comic is a a 'bisexual olive princess'