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  'The Witchfinder' review: Alan Partridge writers fall flat with off-kilter period piece

  The Witchfinder embraces absurd supernatural obsessions prevalent during this period, then drops a kind hearted yet mildly pompous civil servant into the story.

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  The Guardian

  The Witchfinder review – a comedy with so much wasted potential it makes you sad

  Daisy May Cooper, Tim Key and other stellar talents are hamstrung by this period comedy’s thin story and unimpressive jokes

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  Meet the cast of the new BBC historical comedy series The Witchfinder

  BBC Two's latest comedy series, The Witchfinder, sees Tim Key play a failing witchfinder transporting a suspected witch, played by Daisy May Cooper, across England to a trial that could turn around his fortunes. MORE: McMafia fans in uproar as BBC gangster drama is reportedly cancelled amid Ukraine crisis The rest of the show's cast is made up of a number of faces and names that will be familiar to any fan of British comedy shows. Ahead of The Witchfinder's debut on BBC Two on Tuesday evening, m

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  BBC's The Witchfinder full cast and when it will be on TV

  A new comedy from the Gibbons brothers takes us back to 17th Century England, with Daisy May Cooper and Tim Key in the lead roles

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  TV tonight: Tim Key hunts down Daisy May Cooper in The Witchfinder

  TV tonight: Tim Key hunts down Daisy May Cooper in The Witchfinder. Key is insufferable and Cooper reliably uncouth in a show from the Alan Partridge writers. Plus: it’s breaking point in This Is Going to Hurt. Here’s what to watch this evening

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  The week in TV: Mood; Peaky Blinders; Killing Eve; Storyville: Tango With Putin

  Nicôle Lecky bursts on to the screen in her sizzling lost girl tale; a final flourish for Killing Eve looks unlikely; and a chilling Storyville goes inside Russian TV station Dozhd

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  Herald Scotland

  The Witchfinder: Comedy star fears being 'cancelled' over new BBC series

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  The Witchfinder: even Daisy May Cooper can’t make this bad comedy cast a spell

  It has a glorious premise, comedy superstars in every scene, and the writers who reinvented Alan Partridge. This is TV with all the perfect ingredients, but it’s missing one thing: jokes

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  Daisy May Cooper struggled to control horse on The Witchfinder

  Daisy May Cooper, who will be staring in BBC Two's upcoming comedy 'The Witchfinder', says her horse on the show's set was a "little b******d" as she struggled to control him.

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  BAFTA-winning actress Jessica Hynes warns creative industries are in danger of being 'myopic'

  BAFTA-winning actress Jessica Hynes has warned that the creative industries are in danger of being "myopic" if employers and institutions don't examine why so few working-class people have jobs within the sector. Speaking on behalf of the mentoring charity and support network Arts Emergency, she said: "What we need are voices from everywhere as part of the conversation and, if we don't have that, then we have a very myopic culture." The creative industries account for 2.2 million jobs and gene

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