Douglas is Cancelled

Matt Roush says...

Doctor Who alum Steven Moffat trains his satirical pen on cancel culture in a tart, biting four-part comedy starring Downton Abbey‘s Hugh Bonneville as Douglas Bellowes, a veteran TV news anchor whose career goes into freefall after a tweet reveals that he told a sexist joke at a wedding. (He insists he can’t remember it.) His outraged wife (the hilarious Alex Kingston), a newspaper editor, sputters, “We live in a world where a newsreader’s ass can push a war off the front page.” Doug’s younger co-anchor, Madeline (Who veteran Karen Gillan), insists she has his back, or is she manipulating and backstabbing him, having fanned the flames with a passive-aggressive retweet. The top-notch cast includes Ben Miles as the news show’s agitated producer, Simon Russell Beale as Doug’s fickle agent and Ted Lasso‘s Nick Mohammed as an inept comedy writer brought in to lighten the mood. Launches with two episodes, the remainder dropping next Thursday.

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