Metro – Metro.co.uk: News, Sport, Showbiz, Celebrities from MetroMackenzie Crook addresses Small Prophets’ future after ‘incredible’ BBC comedy scores 7,700,000 views
Technology | The Guardian USTV tonight: inside Facebook and Meta with ex-staff and whistleblowers https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/mar/16/tv-tonight-inside-facebook-and-meta-with-ex-staff-and-whistleblowers #Television #TelevisionRadio #Culture #Facebook #Meta #MariannaSpring #Media #SocialNetworking #Technology #MackenzieCrook #SteveCarell #JasonBateman
Daisee (she/her)Television rec of the week
(or maybe of longer than the week, depending on long it takes me to find another show to recommend):
'Small Prophets' by Mackenzie Crook.
Currently available on BBC iPlayer.
Quiet, low-key sharply observed humans, not making other people's lives, or their own, easier.
Possibly magical realism? Not entirely sure which genre it sits in.
Christopher LovegroveA quick reminder that, before The Detectorists and Wurzel Gummidge, #MackenzieCrook had imagined prototypes for #SmallProphets in a 2011 children's story called 'The Windvale Sprites'.
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The malevolent spirits in #MackenzieCrook's 2011 children's book 'The Windvale Sprites' were clearly an early iteration of the author's #SmallProphets in the small screen series of the same name. Worth investigating perhaps? https://wp.me/p2oNj1-3r0
Jane Tomlinson - Artist 🌻⭐️#SmallProphets is the most joyful thing on TV since #Detectorists. Such warmth, humanity & acceptance as well as quirks & whimsy.
It's an antidote for a world that's gone completely BONKERS.
(UK viewers - binge the whole series on BBC iPlayer. We've already watched it thru 4 times.)
#MackenzieCrook (writer and director) is a bloody genius.
All six episodes of ‘otherworldly’ hidden gem BBC series now streaming
Six great reads: ‘Fafo’ parenting, what tech does to us, and Patrick Bateman’s legacy https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/jan/31/six-great-reads-fafo-parenting-what-tech-does-to-us-and-patrick-batemans-legacy #Technology #MackenzieCrook #Television #Culture #TelevisionRadio #Family #ParentsAndParenting #DonaldTrump #BretEastonEllis #AmericanPsycho #Books #LifeAndStyle
Culture | The Guardian US‘Watching The Office recently, my heart just sank’ – Mackenzie Crook on comedy, cruelty and being TV royalty https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/jan/30/mackenzie-crook-on-comedy-cruelty-and-being-tv-royalty-snall-prophets-bbc #MackenzieCrook #Television #TvComedy #TelevisionRadio #Culture
‘Watching The Office recently, my heart just sank’ – Mackenzie Crook on comedy, cruelty and being TV royalty
After a very hard landing into fame in the 00s, he decided to take a softer approach – and hit on a winning formula for classic comedy. The star talks about his fantastical new show Small Prophets, his obsession with middle-age and being ‘weird-looking’
We're currently re-watching the (practically perfect) BBC TV series #Detectorists for the umpteenth time. Have you seen it?
It prompted me to share with you some details of my #paintings inspired by its gentle genius.
See more: https://bit.ly/Det-Pix
Pub?
#art #painting #magpie #treasure #TobyJones #MackenzieCrook #waitingforyou
