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Isobel Lewis

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Very serious writer/critic/yeller, prev @Independent now @bauermedia ✍️ @nytimes @guardian @theipaper etc, but thoughts all mine baby! izlewwrites(@)gmail(.)com

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@izlew

Isobel Lewis

9 months

🚨 Entirely professional news klaxon 🚨 Friday was my last day on the culture team at @Independent after nearly four years! Mad! I'm heading to Bauer Media to write across a few of their pubs (Grazia, Heat, Closer), and have made a shiny new website

Isobel Lewis | Journalist, writer, critic

Isobel Lewis is a culture journalist specialising in stand-up comedy, theatre, TV, and podcasting. She previously worked for The Independent's culture team and has been published in The Guardian, The...

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'Theresa, do not react. You are the saboteur.'

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9 months

New G*rvais special is out, meaning the 2019 James Acaster routine calling him out is trending (again). Last year, I asked James about this clip repeatedly going viral, and think his response is still worth reading

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5 years

I will not be commenting on the Amber and Greg news until anything is officially confirmed, please respect my privacy in this difficult time x

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Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging, a film that truly shaped me as a teen, turns 15 this year. Obviously I had to track down the cast (Georgia Groome, Eleanor Tomlinson, Kimberley Nixon, Georgia Henshaw) and Gurinder Chadha for a 4000+ word oral history

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‘I fancied the pants off my co-star!’ Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging at 15

Fifteen years ago, a British comedy about the pressures of being a teenage girl became a generation-defining hit. To celebrate its birthday, Isobel Lewis spoke to director Gurinder Chadha and many of...

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Been thinking a lot about that Olly Murs song which included the line ‘remember when that crab came up and pinched your feet’ and rhymed ‘free’ with ‘bacardi breeze’. 2010 was fucking wild.

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@EloiseHendy first chance to use my new fave reaction image

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I've wanted to write about Britannia High, ITV's musical drama (Glee before Glee was Glee) for years. For its 15th birthday, I tracked down the stars, and stumbled upon a whole load of drama about cast swaps, script changes, and the show it could have been

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Ed Sheeran auditioned, Gary Barlow wrote the songs: Why wasn’t Britannia High a hit?

With an all-star team including Gary Barlow and Arlene Phillips at the helm, ITV’s ‘Britannia High’ was meant to be ‘Skins’ with jazz hands, writes Isobel Lewis. Fifteen years on, the cast look back...

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6 years

Every time the 'Meghan Markle Family Feud' headlines re-surface and Meghan's father and siblings lash out at her in the press, I think about this incredible piece by @salihughes on severing ties with toxic family members:

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Isobel Lewis

3 years

I wrote about How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria, Any Dream Will Do, I’d Do Anything and Over the Rainbow, the enduring theatre careers of their former contestants and what it’s really like to give Andrew Lloyd Webber your shoes on live TV

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Remembering Andrew Lloyd Webber’s bizarre reality TV empire

For a moment in the 2000s, talent shows to find the next star of the stage were all the rage. Isobel Lewis revels in their unique high campness alongside former contestants

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9 years

Best freshers freebie http://t.co/ZFmFB7cXoM

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4 years

Have been obsessed with @mralistairgreen 's videos for the longest time, so this was a total joy

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Alistair Green: ‘I’m trying to create scenes that are a little bit of England’

The comedian best known for his one-man sketches talks to Isobel Lewis about creating comedy from politics, imagining his videos as a film and the ‘mad’ joy of Cameo

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9 months

The full interview, one of me faves

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James Acaster: ‘My stand-up was in this exaggerated persona – I’m more myself now’

Five-time Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee James Acaster seemed done with stand-up last year – but that wasn’t the whole story. He talks to Isobel Lewis about why he took a break, his book on leaving...

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1 year

Say it louder for the people in the back 👏👏👏👏

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2 years

Izlew meets Acaster... my first @Independent Saturday Interview!

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James Acaster: ‘My stand-up was in this exaggerated persona – I’m more myself now’

Five-time Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee James Acaster seemed done with stand-up last year – but that wasn’t the whole story. He talks to Isobel Lewis about why he took a break, his book on leaving...

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3 years

As both a former teenage Glee fan and a human being, interviewing Darren Criss was one of the weirder moments of my life to date

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Darren Criss: ‘Nobody wants to know about the good things on Glee – but I was there’

The ‘Glee’ star talks to Isobel Lewis about his new Christmas album, straight stars playing queer roles, the ‘evil’ British press and why people only focus on sh**ty moments in the show that made him...

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9 years

how can you vote for a man who would let HIV positive people live their lives oblivious and die because they're not british #leadersdebate

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Isobel Lewis

4 years

Easy A is my favourite film of all time, so it was a dream come true to rant about its place in the teen movie canon and talk to actual Patricia Clarkson (!!!!!!) about what makes it so special on its 10 year anniversary:

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5 years

Absolute dream come true getting to talk scarecrow competitions and learning to say goodbye with my hometown heroes Daisy May and @charliecooper11 ahead of the brilliant final series of This Country for @VICEUK :

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The Makers of 'This Country' on Goodbyes – and When to End a Sitcom

We spoke to the show's creators, Daisy May and Charlie Cooper, about why it feels right to finish their hit series rather than stray from its roots.

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Isobel Lewis

2 years

*inhales* Got a show at @VAULTFestival ? I'm doing a round-up of picks for @TheIndyTheatre and would love to hear what everyone's working on! Drop me a press release at firstname[.]lastname[@]independent[.]co[.]uk with 'Vault Festival' in subject ❤️‍🔥

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2 years

Compiled my picks for the shows to look out for at @VAULTFestival , which kicks off this week!! Can't wait to see what else this year's fest has to offer

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The Independent

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Our guide to the gems of Vault Festival 2023 ⬇️

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Isobel Lewis

4 years

We all knew this was coming... I wrote about crying on the bus to school, writing Louis Tomlinson poetry for his birthday (yes, really) and my hormone-driven years as a One Direction fan. Spoiler: they were actually pretty fun!

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Tears, passion and poetry: My teenage years as a One Direction superfan

For a long time, Isobel Lewis hid all traces of her past life as a teenage One Direction fan – but learning to look at her past obsession with kindness rather than embarrassment has been an important...

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5 years

Remember when Lily Allen released Not Fair, a song that rhymed ‘I lie here in the wet patch in the middle of the bed’ with ‘I spent ages giving head’ and whenever they played it on Radio 1 they just edited a jaunty violin tune over that line. Truly the golden age of music

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5 years

watching florence pugh cook marmalade and ratatouille on her instagram story is so soothing until you remember that z*ch br*ff is lurking somewhere in that house

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6 years

a feminist icon!!

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5 years

After a really demoralising ‘why do I even bother’ week of job applications and pitching, hearing the amazing @poornabell speak this evening on making a journalism career work and not comparing yourself to other people has totally changed my mindset ✨

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Can’t wait to put a black turtleneck on on the 1st September and not take it off until the end of April!!

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1 year

Got my first ever commission writing about Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and finally got to interview THEE incredible Rachel Bloom for @Independent (I will never get over this)

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Rachel Bloom: ‘AI will be a good writer when it has the pain and trauma of hating itself’

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3 years

Happy #DragRaceUK day! I spoke to *deep breath* all 12 queens competing on series 3 about their time on the show, dealing with trolls and what it’s really like trying to prepare for Drag Race in the middle of a pandemic (spoiler: quite hard)

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The new Drag Race UK queens on turning looks and making history in a pandemic

As series three of the popular franchise returns, the competing future drag stars tell Isobel Lewis what’s changed for the new series and why performing is more important than ever

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3 years

*inhales* BIMINI!!!!!

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Bimini Bon Boulash: ‘All drag queens have a level of delusion about them’

In less than a year, the break-out star of ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race UK’ has taken over the worlds of fashion, music and now publishing with their self-help book, ‘Release the Beast’. They speak to Isobel...

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Suuuuuper excited to launch Viral Laughter, my new series for @IndyArts about the comedians who’ve distracted us from the constant feeling of impending doom during lockdown! Kicking it off with the always hilarious @WillDHislop

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Will Hislop interview: ‘Twitter has that weird thing of being both a first draft but quite perman...

The comedian has become known during lockdown for online videos such as ‘Your aunt at the NHS clap’. He talks to Isobel Lewis about the difference between live and online comedy, ‘extracting poison’...

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3 years

Interviewed THE Catherine Cohen and it's safe to say I'm obsorsed

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Catherine Cohen interview: ‘What does the future hold now I’m a wretched, old hag?’

The cabaret performer and stand-up comic is riding high, with a forthcoming Netflix special and rom-com in the works and a series of shows in the UK this week. She speaks to Isobel Lewis about...

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5 years

In The Princess Switch Vanessa Hudgens plays a baker, but in A Knight Before Christmas she plays a woman who can’t bake at all! The range!

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6 years

All this from a brand that sell slogan t shirts reading ‘Feminist’, ‘Females of the Future’ and ‘Nothing Stronger Than Girl Power’. You don’t get to strip all meaning from feminism and then lash out when people talk about what it really means. Shame on you @Topshop #pinknotgreen

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For anyone hoping to visit the pop-up, after a huge amount of work on this ground-breaking partnership we assembled our stand this morning and were raring to go – however, just twenty minutes later it had been dismantled by Topshop.

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4 years

after years of denial, she’s finally got glasses! mildly traumatised by taking them off and realising just how bad my eyesight is for the first time, but who cares!!!! they’re pink!!!

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i am....... so obsessed with tayce

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Moved into this house 8 months before lockdown began and this orange tree in the garden is a good 90% of the reason we’re still here

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‘tell me more, tell me more, like does he have a car?’ #loveisland

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the only sexy fish i care about

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Life is too short and restaurants have been closed for too long to not go for a meal/drink on your own and feel like the main character!!

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unhappy to report that ‘will eat out to help out’ is the new ‘looking for a social bubble’ of covid-themed tinder bios

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‘Or faces’

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3 years

Music and Lyrics is 15 (horrifying!) tomorrow, so I wrote about the bop that is 'PoP Goes My Heart!', the soundtrack's position within the fake-pop-songs-you-wish-were-real canon and how we wouldn't have half of them without the late great Adam Schlesinger

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From Music and Lyrics to That Thing You Do – it takes real talent to write a fake hit

‘Music and Lyrics’ is best remembered for its soundtrack of fake pop songs, rather than its predictable plot. As the Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore romcom turns 15, Isobel Lewis looks at the art of...

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A lot has been written about Mock the Week ending, but what does it mean for the next generation of emerging comedians? I spoke to some of its biggest success stories about the show's position as a 'baby comedian academy' and what comes next post-Mock

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How Mock the Week went from a bearpit to a launchpad for the brightest comedy stars

Since it smashed onto our screens in 2005, the panel show with a mildly terrifying reputation has become one of the best incubators for emerging comedy talent. As the final episode airs, Isobel Lewis...

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Against literally all the odds my PCR came back negative!!! She’s going home!!!!

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@harrisonjbrock every season I’m shocked they still do the tic tac lunch joke!! when they’ve generally been fairly good at phasing out other outdated bits I don’t get how this has survived

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I have never had such a strong physical reaction to a TV show as I had watching I May Destroy You. It is singular, phenomenal and Michaela Coel shows once again why she is the voice of a generation. My 5 🌟 review for @TheIndyTV [TW: sexual assault, rape]

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6 years

10/10 from sparknotes

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the true spirit of NYE is wearing as many sequins as possible to sit on the sofa and eat loads of crisps btw x

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everything about heather’s delivery and facial expressions in this scene in selling sunset is sending me……… I have watched this approx 300 times

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3 years

Returned to the theatre last night for one of the best comedy shows I've ever seen – not a bad way to start 2022!! My review of Liz Kingsman's astonishing One Woman Show

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Liz Kingsman skewers the ‘messy woman’ trope with defiance in One-Woman Show – review

Kingsman’s comedic show within a show is both astonishingly funny and deeply profound

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I spoke to the incredible Zoë Wanamaker about theatre's return, her new Netflix show and the UK's general underappreciation of the arts. Safe to say, it was a joy

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Zoë Wanamaker interview: ‘Of course women should be the centre of attention’

At 71, the formidable star of stage and screen is still speaking out and taking parts that scare her. As she returns in Netflix fantasy drama Shadow and Bone, she talks to Isobel Lewis about her...

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6 years

who knew that andy murray was the only good man

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Andy Murray on women's Ballon d'Or winner Ada Hegerberg being asked to twerk on stage tonight...

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Living an absolute dream, I present my first ever piece of professional journalism for @DigitalSpy on my favourite topic in the world... STRICTLY 💃🕺

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Digital Spy TV

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The REAL "Strictly curse" has nothing to do with romance

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3 years

Back again at the ‘Toby is a comedy genius’ stage of the two-episode Love Island cycle, it’s incredible

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5 years

Easy A (greatest teen movie of the 2010s?) was a true gift when it came to Penn Badgley. None of that John Tucker Must Die long hair, just proof that the man can make blue body paint and a woodchuck costume look good

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4 years

first date outfit = LBD + bang bang shoes

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5 years

Something pretty different from me for @StylistMagazine : I only ate from food waste apps for a week because there's nothing I love more than good food and an even better deal:

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Food waste apps: “This is what happened when I ate nothing but food waste for a week”

It's food waste, but not as we know it...

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Isobel Lewis

5 years

2019 has been really tough personally (honestly can’t wait to yeet it out of sight) but has been the year I officially started writing for a living which is something I’m so grateful for on even the worst days. To hop on the bandwagon, here are my fave writing bits of the year:

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5 years

I had the honour of writing about @CW_CrazyXGF , a show that has brought so much joy to the TV world, for @TheAtlantic ! Bottom line is that @Racheldoesstuff and her team are all geniuses and #CrazyExGirlfriend will be missed very, very much:

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How 'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend' Revived the TV Musical—And Liberated Its Heroine

The CW show, which is ending after four seasons, gave new life to a genre that was losing ground on the small screen.

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3 years

Told my mum I got a tattoo and her response was ‘it’s a shame I don’t see you enough to be annoyed about it’ 💀💀💀

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i think about this comment at least five times a day

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Me on Glee in tomorrow’s Guardian (sorry Lea Michele I still love you xxx)

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Plus there's @joelgolby on Scarlett Moffatt's wildly misjudged The British Tribe Next Door, @steverose7 on whether there's too much Stephen King on screens, @izlew on Glee's fall from grace, @GraemeVirtue reviews the singles, @leoniemaycooper chats to @thebandGHOST , and MORE

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the worst habit i’ve developed during lockdown is mixing whatever leftover spirits i can find around the house with instant coffee and calling it an espresso martini

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There is genuinely no bigger turn off than the words 'god, you're a feminist, aren't you?'

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Not to say that I have a Strong Brand™️ but @virginiaasaul embroidered the lyrics to the best fake pop song of all time (fight me) onto a shirt for me and I’ve honestly never loved anything more

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2019’s off to an excellent start

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@Nicole_Cliffe Someone used it on Drag Race the other week and I was so shocked! Looked online to see if everyone else was rightly horrified but it was literally just one other Brit not realising that it's not considered a slur in the US

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This is my last feature of the year and she’s a big ‘un… I spoke to the creators of Bridgerton, The Favourite, The Great and Emma about modernising the period drama and what the genre can teach us about the past and the present

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Beyond bodice rippers: How the period drama got with the times

Historical dramas are more modern than ever before, with shows and films from Bridgerton to Emma tackling contemporary themes beneath the bonnets. Isobel Lewis speaks to their creators to find out...

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too emotionally vulnerable to deal with these messages from my parents without crying

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can’t believe i’ve not worn make up for 2 weeks and my skin has somehow got worse? are you really telling me I’ve been ugly for nothing 😠😠😠😠

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Very sad to hear that Megan and Wes from Love Island have gone their separate ways but really pleased with this bit of their official break up statement

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I wrote about Love Island, Drag Race and what happens when your favourite reality shows go on Netflix for @i_D : … … feat. @LaganjaEstranja @GiaGunn @ChrisWillx

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A global platform for emerging talent, i-D celebrates fashion, culture, individuality and youth.

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My mum broke the news that she was pregnant with my brother to one year old me by giving me a baby doll so we could ‘be mummies together’ and I just threw it down the stairs in disgust

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well you try getting the victoria line on a saturday night

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Happy Casa Amor day! I'm weirdly fascinated by the contestants who join the Love Island villa for three days, fail to couple up, then have to return to normality, so spoke to some of the show's shortest lived islanders about their experiences

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Horror movie in five words: UTI on 18 hour flight

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I feel like there’s a really fucking important element being missed out from this Arrested Development conversation: how DARE they ask Jessica Walter about the abuse she suffered whilst doing a group interview WITH HER ABUSER. How do you even expect her to respond to that??

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5 years

Fleabag is brilliant (obviously) but selling individual tickets for it that cost £120 is an absolute joke. You can barely convince me that there are 3 hour long, 50 person cast musicals that are worth that money, let alone an hour long one woman show #soz

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Fuck me, I knew It’s a Sin would be an emotional watch but I just feel totally floored by the whole thing. It reminds me of I May Destroy You in that the highs are so euphoric it feels like a punch in the stomach when it drops. Phenomenal TV but my god I can’t stop crying

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Give the 14-year-old girl who spotted Pete Davidson and Phoebe Dynevor together in a tiny Staffordshire village a book deal!!

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3 years

Wrote about Love Island and sex, as is my GOD-GIVEN RIGHT

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After a sexless year, Love Island 2021 is back to its randy former glory

ITV2’s dating show is back with a new series and the contestants might just be its horniest ever. Over a year since the beginning of lockdown, can we blame them, asks Isobel Lewis

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6 years

this photo has singlehandedly convinced me to go blonde

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. @DUALIPA is a blonde and sweaty vision in new video for her end-of-summer bop, "Electricity"

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Liz Kingsman

3 years

✨5 stars in The Independent! Felt actually quite emotional reading this one because it means a lot to me to have had a female critic from the broadsheets in too. Given the content of the show and the concept of balance. So thanks Isobel! This has made my day

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Isobel Lewis

4 years

My love letter to Ugly Betty, the first 'grown up' TV show my mum ever let me watch with her, which ended 10 years ago today (feat. Vanessa Williams)

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Ugly Betty, 10 years on: the show that fought TV's beauty myth

The adaptation of a Colombian telenovela, starring America Ferrera as braces-wearing fashion industry wannabe Betty Suarez, reversed the trend that everyone in television has to be glamorous, says...

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Isobel Lewis

4 years

Wrote about my undying love for Claudia Winkleman, #Strictly ’s sarcastic fringes queen

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In praise of Claudia Winkleman, the woman who taught Strictly to laugh at itself

When Bruce Forsyth left ‘Strictly’ in 2014, many questioned how the show would go on. But as Tess Daly’s new co-host, Claudia Winkleman brought with her a self-aware sarcasm that allowed the show to...

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Isobel Lewis

5 years

Last week my hometown was referred to as ‘hippie central’ in the Daily Mail and today I was given this business card while waiting for a train. Pure poetry

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Isobel Lewis

6 years

georgia definitely used to caption her profile pictures ‘lol i’m so random!!!!1! XDDDDDD’ #loveisland

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Isobel Lewis

3 years

believe and u CAN achieve

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Isobel Lewis

3 years

Spoke to the wonderful Ryan Calais Cameron about @nvrchuk 's 'Black boy fantasia' For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy at @newdiorama

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Ryan Calais Cameron: ‘I’ve yet to see an authentic depiction of Black men on stage’

The writer of a new play about suicide, self-worth and emotional taboos talks to Isobel Lewis about the moment he realised he was viewed differently, and how it inspired him to use his writing to...

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Isobel Lewis

3 months

Crowd work comedy is everywhere on TikTok and Instagram, but how is its popularity actually changing things in comedy clubs? I went deep on audience interaction videos for @guardian with the help of @liamwithnail @erikaehler @AliWoodsGigs

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How viral ‘crowd work’ clips are remaking standup for the social media age

More and more comedians are uploading their improvised encounters with audience members. But do these interactions detract from the craft of standup?

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Isobel Lewis

4 years

If I didn’t already know that fast fashion was a bad thing, the horrific reports coming from distribution centres during this crisis have shown me that I need to change my relationship to shopping. My thoughts for @theipaper :

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Isobel Lewis

4 years

Just when I thought I had no tears left to cry in 2020, the 'where are they now' segment of the Bake Off final has finished me off #GBBO

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Isobel Lewis

3 years

Back for 2021 with a shiny new upgrade....... it's me, ranking all the Netflix Original Christmas romcoms based on how stupid they are!!

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Every Netflix Christmas romcom ranked from least to most ridiculous

When it comes to Christmas films, the more ludicrous the plot, the better, says Isobel Lewis

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Isobel Lewis

9 years

I love past me http://t.co/jb2as1gx85

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Isobel Lewis

5 years

I promise that normal Twitter service will resume in approximately 24 hours but I'm a baby journalist and big writing gigs are exciting and I can't pretend to be cool about it!!!! I'm so happy I could cry!!!!

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Isobel Lewis

4 years

BING BANG BONG: the inevitable essay from me

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Isobel Lewis

5 years

The most important skill to master when working from home is how to balance your laptop and an overly full bowl of ramen when you inevitably decide to work from bed. Once you've figured this out, you can do anything.

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