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Netflix just got one of the best movies you (probably) missed in theatres — and it’s like ‘Dead Poets Society’ but with a penguin

Netflix just added "The Penguin Lesson," and this heart-warming drama sees a grumpy teacher take a tundra bird under his wing.

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Steve Coogan says he now dresses the same as character Alan Partridge

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The Independent UK

Steve Coogan says he’s morphing into alter-ego Alan Partridge

Actor has been playing the hubristic broadcaster for over three decades

The Independent UK

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Steve Coogan says ‘disappointing’ Labour year will ‘pave the way’ for Reform UK

The 59-year old actor and comedian reportedly supported the Labour party until last year, when he backed the Green Party.

Evening Standard

Steve Coogan claims Keir Starmer’s Labour will ‘pave the way’ for Reform UK

‘Alan Partridge’ star claimed Labour are ‘putting Band-Aids on the gash in the side of the Titanic’

The Independent UK

Steve Coogan accuses Labour of paving way for Reform UK

Exclusive: Actor says Keir Starmer’s party has caused a ‘derogation of all the principles they were supposed to represent’

The Guardian - UK

Steve Coogan says he now ‘admires’ Margaret Thatcher because of Keir Starmer’s politics

‘I never thought I’d say that,’ Alan Partridge star admitted

The Independent UK

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Saipan film to reopen old wounds between Roy Keane and Mick McCarthy ultras

Drama-biopic starring Steve Coogan will reignite a row that split Irish football fans but there are good signs for its artistic merit

The Guardian - UK

Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon announce The Trip’s return with season five in the Northern Lights

Series was previously thought to be over after the pair’s Greece-set instalment in 2020

The Independent UK

Survivors of Ireland’s mother and baby homes risk losing UK benefits over compensation

Campaign pushes to change law that could lead to survivors living in UK being disqualified from means-tested benefits

The Guardian - UK

Paloma Faith uses her ‘voice for the voiceless’ on Gaza campaign

She was part of a demonstration that put a banner with a message said to be from a Gazan child saying ‘Prime Minister I don’t want to die’.

Evening Standard

Steve Coogan reads out names of children killed in Gaza at Westminster vigil

‘We are reading out the names to remember them as human beings and not just a statistic’

The Independent UK

Tim Key: ‘Filming Alan Partridge, I was living in a lot of fear’

INTERVIEW: The actor and comic poet speaks to Louis Chilton about his new theatrically released film ‘The Ballad of Wallis Island’, the pressures of acting in ‘Peep Show’ and Alan Partridge’s ‘Mid Morning Matters’, and the realisation that made him stop supporting Liverpool FC

The Independent UK

Child victims of Gaza onslaught remembered in Westminster vigil

Actors read out the names of children who have died in the conflict.

Evening Standard

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Louder

"I see this lump in the bed, and I go, Oh God, who's this?" The day Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher woke up to find British light entertainment legend Alan Partridge in his hotel bed

The '90s were a strange and magical time where anything could happen, and often did

The Guardian - UK

The Penguin Lessons review – Steve Coogan outshone by his feathered friend in 70s Argentina comedy drama

Coogan plays a world-weary teacher in turbulent Buenos Aires who finally grows a political conscience thanks to a penguin

The Guardian - UK

It’s not poverty that’s breeding the new populism. It’s wealth

Analysts trace a link between financial security and a troubling, increasingly devil-may-care, attitude to political risk

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Steve Coogan's wild past makes him 'more interesting'

Steve Coogan has no regrets over his wild lifestyle - insisting people who have "partied" are "more interesting".

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The Independent UK

Steve Coogan isn’t earnest enough for the dire political comedy The Penguin Lessons

2/5 Finally a film that asks ‘could an adorable flightless bird convince Alan Partridge to stand up to Argentina’s military dictatorship?’

The Independent UK

Steve Coogan on his very unusual new comedy: ‘The penguin takes the edge off the fascism’

INTERVIEW: In ‘The Penguin Lessons’, the man behind Alan Partridge plays a school teacher in military-occupied Argentina who forms an unlikely bond with a seabird. Such tonal extremes required a delicate hand, he and his co-star Jonathan Pryce tell Annabel Nugent

The Guardian - UK

The Penguin Lessons review – Steve Coogan seabird comedy drama tries to sell feelgood mood

Coogan does his best, but there’s a tonal mismatch here: the animal-teaches-lonely-human narrative jars with a depiction of lives in totalitarian Argentina

Evening Standard

Steve Coogan: ‘Art is what humanises us, and it can’t be measured on a spreadsheet’

Steve Coogan and the cast and crew behind charming new movie The Penguin Lessons share what they learned from being on set with a penguin.

The Guardian - UK

Dr Strangelove: theatre of the not-so-absurd

Brief letters: Six months is a long time in politics and on stage | Bad news at 10 | Bevan blunder | Trump’s lettuce | Punting into spring

The Guardian - UK

The Penguin Lessons is the latest film to teach us animals rescue men from loneliness

The comedy, about a curmudgeon played by Steve Coogan and his waddling new friend, joins a subgenre of movies from King Kong to John Wick – in which men are emotionally and socially rescued by animals

Evening Standard

Steve Coogan greeted penguins every day of filming for The Penguin Lessons

The film follows the true story of an Englishman who rescues a penguin from an oil-slicked beach in a divided Argentina.

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