Less Steve Martin, more Steve Coogan. Another cultural difference Michaels might struggle with is just how woke most British comedy is. SNL was shamelessly politically incorrect for decades ...

Sky’s announcement of a British Saturday Night Live promised a ‘star-studded’ line-up of hosts. I worry if their the status of ‘star’ starts to change after a few episodes in the same way that my ...

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. Penguins are funny little creatures, flapping but ...

Simply sign up to the Film myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Steve Coogan is pretty reliable when it comes to playing world-weary characters whose passion is revived by a cause ...

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 ...

Now his story is getting the Steve Coogan treatment in The Penguin Lessons, based on Michell’s 2015 memoir of the same name. “The key difference between Tom’s book and the film is that Steve ...

Teacher's pet: Steve Coogan with little Juan Salvador in 'The Penguin Lessons' Coogan plays the floppy-haired, suede shoe-wearing English master imported to raise the boys’ language skills from ...

The creature won’t leave his side. The bird is the word: Steve Coogan in ‘The Penguin Lessons’ (Lionsgate) Yet Coogan doesn’t quite have the earnestness (and perhaps no actor would have ...

No-one does mild-mannered, gently acerbic cinema for the matinee crowd quite like the British, and the new Steve Coogan movie, The Penguin Lessons, is a no exception. Based on an unusual real-life ...

Steve Coogan has acted opposite all manner of major actors in his time – from big names in comedy to legendary thespians like Judi Dench – but his new film sees him paired up with rather a ...