Episodes
14th February 2025 will see the return of Daniel Cleaver to our screens as Hugh Grant and Renée Zellweger team up again for the fourth instalment of the Bridget Jones saga. Join Oscar and Diggory as they chat about what we can expect in Bridget Jones: Mad About A Boy, speculate about the casting of White Lotus and One Day star Leo Woodall and theorise as to how Daniel Cleaver survived the plane crash he was said to have had in Bridget Jones's Baby. Make sure you're following Taking...
Published 04/26/24
The Regime is a limited series for HBO created by Will Tracy and released in 2024. Losing her grip on her country, Chancellor Elena Vernham (Kate Winslet) becoming increasingly paranoid and unstable and turns to an unlikely confidant in volatile and disgraced soldier, Herbert Zubak (Matthias Schoenaerts). With Zubak's help, Vernham attempts to diminish foreign superpowers like China and the US, defeat local rebels and stave off a lingering political threat from the country's previous...
Published 04/16/24
Published 04/16/24
Huge Hugh Grant News as Oscar and Diggory discuss his appearance at the BAFTAs, his new HBO Show with Kate Winslet and his strange involvement in an upcoming film about Pop-Tarts...   Make sure you're following Taking Hugh for Granted on Instagram and Facebook (@TakingHughforGranted) as well as Twitter (@TakingHugh). You can get in touch with us there or via our email [email protected] Hugh Grant is a British actor who is best known for starring in films like Love Actually,...
Published 03/13/24
Disclaimer: At 33:00 we messed up our own ranking! We tried to place Wonka in our overall ranking of all of Hugh Grant's movies, but we inexplicably forgot to add our two scores together, which meant Wonka ended up placing 49/50 films! The movie would have finished 25th place if scored correctly. Wonka (2023), directed by Paul King, tells the origin story of Willy Wonka, a character from the 1964 novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl, featuring his early days as a...
Published 01/26/24
Over four years, Hugh Grant experts Diggory Waite and Oscar Beardmore-Gray watched every Hugh Grant film ever made. Now, they're ranking them all from #50 to #1. In episode 5, Oscar and Diggory rank Hugh Grant top 10 films EVER. Will The Gentlemen, Notting Hill, Paddington 2, About a Boy or Bridget Jones's Diary claim number one spot? And what hidden gems will make the top 10? Listen to find out! Make sure you're following Taking Hugh for Granted on Instagram and Facebook...
Published 12/12/23
Over four years, Hugh Grant experts Diggory Waite and Oscar Beardmore-Gray watched every Hugh Grant film ever made. Now, they're ranking them all from #50 to #1. In episode 4 of Hugh Grant's best ever films list, Oscar and Diggory rank some of Hugh's best work. Fans will find it hard to believe that Love Actually slips to 20th position, but there is heaps of praise for movies like Florence Foster Jenkins, Mickey Blue Eyes, and Dungeons of Dragons: Honour Among Thieves. With only a few...
Published 12/05/23
Over four years, Hugh Grant experts Diggory Waite and Oscar Beardmore-Gray watched every Hugh Grant film ever made. Now, they're ranking them all from 50 to 1. In episode 3 of Hugh Grant's best ever films list, they cross the half way line discussing 30th place to 21st. Blockbusters like The Man from UNCLE and critically acclaimed titles like Sense and Sensibility share the stage in this episode, but will they rank above Two Weeks Notice? Check out the episode to find out! Make sure...
Published 11/29/23
Over four years, Hugh Grant experts Diggory Waite and Oscar Beardmore-Gray watched every Hugh Grant film ever made. Now, they're ranking them all from 50 to 1. In episode 2 of Hugh Grant's best ever films list, they count down from 40th place to 31st. There are some titles you'll have heard of like Death to 2020 and Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, and others that will consigned to the film history books for ever more after this episode! Make sure you're following Taking Hugh for...
Published 11/21/23
Over four years, Hugh Grant experts Diggory Waite and Oscar Beardmore-Gray watched every Hugh Grant film ever made. Now, they're ranking them all from 50 to 1. In episode 1 of Hugh Grant's best ever films list, they count down from 50th place to 41st, discussing some of the 'less good' Hugh Grant productions. Listen out for such films as An Awfully Big Adventure, Impromptu and Cloud Atlas... Make sure you're following Taking Hugh for Granted on Instagram and Facebook...
Published 11/14/23
Better late than never folks! Diggory and Oscar wholeheartedly apologise for their late review of Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre, which was finally released on limited release in the US in March 2023 and on streaming platforms elsewhere in April 2023. It's come six months late, but what side of the coin will this latest Hugh Grant effort fall? Are we taking Hugh for granted or not? Directed by Guy Ritchie, this film sees super spy Orson Fortune (Jason Statham) track down and stop the...
Published 10/04/23
Hugh Grant is generating a buzz in the showbiz world again after a trailer was dropped this week for upcoming blockbuster Wonka. Grant will play the role of an Oompa Loompa in the film that is due to be released in December 2023, and was clad in full orange and purple make-up in a short exchange with lead Timothée Chalamet at the end of the trailer. Fans online were quick to pass judgement and at one point the news was the front page of BBC News. Diggory and Oscar catch up for an emergency...
Published 07/14/23
In this episode, Oscar and Diggory delve deep into Hugh Grant's new film, Dungeons and Dragons: Honour Among Thieves, discussing the film in detail, Oscar's holiday to Australia and Dutch footballers from the 90s. After escaping the arctic prison of Revel’s End, Edgin Darvis (played by Chris Pine) must team up with a band of amateur adventurers to help free his daughter from his old friend and the new evil Lord of Neverwinter, Forge Fitzwilliam (played by Hugh Grant)… Make sure you're...
Published 04/18/23
Oscar and Diggory start 2023 by reviewing Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery and breaking down Hugh Grant's stunning 30-second cameo. They reflect on some of his other cameos, including an eerily similar one in Trevaux, and ponder what a third Knives Out movie starring Daniel Craig and Hugh might look like.  Five long-time friends are invited to the Greek island home of billionaire Miles Bron (played by Edward Norton). All five know Bron from way back and owe their current wealth, fame and...
Published 01/16/23
After a hiatus of four months, Diggory and Oscar are back to spread Hugh Grant-related Christmas cheer! First up on the agenda is new film Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, which premiered in November but will be largely enjoyed on Netflix when it's released on December 23. Hugh has a very fleeting cameo in this 'whodunnit' starring Daniel Craig, but nonetheless it's got Hugh Grant fans talking!  The boys also debrief on an ABC News 20 years retrospective on Love Actually, where Hugh Grant,...
Published 12/18/22
Hugh Grant just can't stay out of the news this summer and we bloody love it! At the age of 61, Hugh has left it to the twilight of his career to appear at Comic-Con, the international comic book convention in San Diego, California. He was there along with other co-stars from upcoming movie Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves and couldn't resist cracking jokes about playing D&D (and S&M), leaving the audience in stitches. It's also been announced that Hugh is pulling out of...
Published 08/10/22
We've got two pieces of Hugh's News to announce, fans! First, the announcement that Hugh Grant has signed on to a leading role in eight-part Netflix series Kaos. The series is billed as a bold, darkly comic, contemporary take on Greek mythology, exploring love, power and life in the underworld and Grant is set to portray the seemingly all-powerful, yet desperately insecure and vengeful Zeus, who has long enjoyed his status as King of The Gods.  If the prospect of Hugh playing a Greek god...
Published 07/11/22
To take Hugh for Granted or to not take Hugh for Granted? That is the question.  Join your hosts Oscar and Diggory as they watch Hugh Grant play Sebastian in an animated rendition of Shakespeare's classic 'Twelfth Night'. The boys also ask where Hugh's next film 'Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre' has gotten to, as well as speculate about Hugh's intention of suing of The Sun newspaper in the UK and the teaser trailer for Hugh's 2023 film, 'Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among...
Published 04/26/22
Ah, the year is 1989 and the world hasn't yet realised the potential of two soon-to-be superstars of the late 20th century. We are of course referring to none other than Hugh Grant and the wonderful Courteney Cox, who star together in this two-episode television miniseries based on the 1988 Judith Krantz novel, Till We Meet Again. In the full swing of the First World War in 1915, Eve (played by Lucy Gutteridge) meets Paul de Lancel (played by Michael York) while performing for the army and...
Published 04/12/22
EMERGENCY PODCAST!!!! Hugh Grant is announced as the eighth actor to play James Bond! Oscar and Diggory discuss why they think the appointment was made, why Hugh is perfect for the role of the deadly spy and how excited they are for his first film as 007!  Make sure you're following Taking Hugh for Granted on Instagram and Facebook (@TakingHughforGranted) as well as Twitter (@TakingHugh). You can get in touch with us there or via our email [email protected] Unsure who we're on...
Published 04/01/22
Come out from behind your couch and settle down as Oscar and Diggory discuss Hugh Grant's role in Shades of Darkness: The Demon Lover (1986), including the strange way that they don't show Hugh's face for a lot of the film but when they do - how lovely his hair is.  In 1941 in England, despite the war, for Robert Drover (played by Hugh Grant) relatively speaking all is well. He is in love with a wonderful young woman but this soon presents a problem for his mother, Kathleen (played by...
Published 03/15/22
Order, order! All rise for your right honourable judges Oscar and Diggory as they put Hugh Grant's performance in the TV Movie 'The Trials of Oz' up on the stand. Your hosts discuss the context to the film as well as Hugh Grant's rock 'n' roll look, his slightly patchy Australian accent and his excellent performance.   After releasing a particularly risque edition of the British underground magazine "Oz", Richard Neville (played by Hugh Grant) and his fellow editors are put on trial and...
Published 03/01/22
Huge news Hugh Grant fans! Hugh Grant has been spotted in Oxford alongside Wonka actor Timothée Chalamet sparking rumours that Hugh Grant has been cast in the upcoming 2023 film. The film is due to follow the early adventures of Willy Wonka, with Chalamet starring as the famous chocolatier and Hugh Grant as one of his Oompa Loompas!  Oscar and Diggory discuss Hugh Grant's reception in Oxford when spotted by fans waiting to see Chalamet, his potentially controversial casting as an Oompa...
Published 02/25/22
In this episode, Oscar and Diggory discuss what their partners make of their Hugh Grant obsession before reviewing the TV special 'Champagne Charlie', in which Hugh Grant puts on another dodgy accent and sports a never-before-seen style!  Amid the turmoil prior to the American Civil War, Charles Heidsieck (played by Hugh Grant) has built a champagne empire across 19th-century France and the United States. Along with battling his uncle for control of the vineyard, reluctant French spy...
Published 02/15/22
Bonjour Hugh Grant fans!  Join Oscar and Diggory for a very special episode in which they complete having watched all of Hugh Grant's feature films that are currently released. For this film, the boys were forced to watch it entirely in French and were not so sure what was going on or whether Hugh Grant was even truly in it, but they stuck with it anyway. Listen to hear them discuss Hugh's cameo, their limited understanding of French and Hugh's love of Pret a Manager.  Defence lawyer...
Published 02/01/22