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The Independent is a national online newspaper. I've been contributing editorial work to their film and TV sections since early 2020. Click the images below to read my work.

‘Nick Offerman and I used to make out every year for the blooper reel’: Oral history of Parks and Recreation

Cool Runnings at 30, as told by its stars: ‘They wanted us to sound like Sebastian the Crab’

‘I was strangely upbeat after my heart attack’: Bob Odenkirk on his brush with death and new mid-life crisis comedy

‘You’ll never see Michael Caine blink’: An oral history of The Muppet Christmas Carol at 30

‘There was a no-asshole policy on set’: An oral history of Scrubs

‘I had to convince Ricky to keep in the David Brent dance’: An oral history of The Office

‘Macaulay Culkin would try to make me laugh during takes’: An oral history of Home Alone

How GoldenEye inspired a video game classic

Ryan Reynolds’s Home Alone reboot is ‘an insult to the art of cinema’, says original director Chris Columbus

Malcolm in the Middle at 20: ‘Everybody calls them dysfunctional – but it was a realistic family’

‘I’d feel like my blood was boiling’: The true story of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the heroes in a half-shell who shook the world

‘We were around each other more than our family’: An oral history of Community

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