Douglas Bellowes is a beloved TV presenter. But after an off-colour “joke” at a wedding pressure starts to build. Can he weather the storm and avoid being cancelled?
Douglas Is Cancelled is a 2024 TV series starring Hugh Bonneville (Downton Abbey, Paddington) as the titular Douglas Bellowes, an avuncular early-evening TV show presenter on “Live At 6”, a sort of hybrid news/chat show (Think: The One Show on BBC1). After getting drunk at a wedding, he wakes up to find that he’s trending on Twitter for telling a misogynistic joke. At this point we don’t know what the joke is and Douglas claims he was so out of it he can’t remember what he said or who he might have said it to. During the fallout from his bout of off-colour drunken humour we meet his co-host Madeline Crow (Karen Gillan – Dr Who, Guardians of the Galaxy), an up-and-coming and extremely driven woman struggling to make it in the male-dominated world of TV. Things take a turn when Madeleine quote tweets the original accusatory tweet with a…
Director: Ben Palmer
Stars: Hugh Bonneville, Karen Gillan, Alex Kingston
Katy’s Rating: 7/10 – Good
