Taking Hugh for Granted

Join hosts Oscar and Diggory as they discuss Death to 2020 (Netflix, 2020), the film in which a collection of interviewees including Dash Bracket (played by Samuel L Jackson), Jeanetta Grace Susan (played by Lisa Kudrow) and Tennyson Foss (played by Hugh Grant) look back over the events that took place in 2020... There are spoilers ahead so if you don't know how 2020 ended yet - don't listen to the pod! ;)

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For those of you that want to skip disclaimers, opening theme tunes, salutations, synopses and go straight to the film analysis, head to 04:40 

Happy New Year! To celebrate 2020 coming to an end (and let's be honest, it's definitely worth celebrating), we've put together some of our favourite bits from The Taking Hugh for Granted podcast from the past year.  

Oscar and Diggory take you through the usual way an episode of their Hugh Grant podcast would go - from a synopsis of Notting Hill from Synopsis Simon, to a discussion of Hugh's character in the Undoing, his performance in Impromptu and appearance in The Remains of the Day, to finally asking themselves whether Hugh has indeed been taken for granted in Sense and Sensibility...

If you like what you hear, you can go back and listen to every episode featured and many more wherever you're listening to this podcast! 

The episodes featured in order are: The Bengali Night, Notting Hill, The Remains of the Day, The Undoing - Episode 1, Impromptu, White Mischief, The Hughnger Games (the Taking Hugh for Granted Q&A), Music and Lyrics, Happy Birthday, Hugh Grant, Love Actually - The Christmas Special, The Lair of the White Worm and Sense and Sensibility. 

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I caught Mummy kissing Hughie Grant! Underneath the mistletoe last night! 

To get you through this festive season, we have a very special episode looking back at one of Hugh’s most legendary rom-coms – Love Actually.

For our Christmas episode, we get the thoughts of Beth Amann and Patrick Flynn, who host the What Is Love Actually? podcast – a 12-part pod that is dedicated entirely to dissecting this holiday classic.

We also speak to Christopher Orr, film critic and writer at The Atlantic magazine, who is notorious for writing two extremely negative reviews of Love Actually. Both interviews are great fun, so make sure you don’t miss them.

Finally, we also put the word out to the THFG fans to send in some Christmassy clips of yourselves telling us your favourite parts of Love Actually and what you’d get Hugh Grant for Christmas! We'll be listening to all your submissions right here on the Christmas special. 

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For those of you that want to head straight to our interview with the folks from the What is Love Actually? podcast skip to 9:30 and for our chat with Christopher Orr it's 45:40. 

Merry Christmas everyone! 

* The Undoing Episode 6 Spoilers ahead, beware! *

The finale begins with the unsolved mystery of the murder weapon, which is somehow in the possession of Jonathan Fraser's (Hugh Grant) son, Henry (Noah Jupe). The trial into the murder of Elena Alves continues and when Jonathan's wife Grace (Nicole Kidman) says she'll testify in support of her husband things begin to unravel. Will Jonathan Fraser be found guilty of murder or will we finally find out that it was actually someone else all along? 

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For those of you that want to skip disclaimers, opening theme tunes, salutations, synopses and go straight to the film analysis, head to 3:52.

With just one episode left to go of HBO's latest drama The Undoing, we are still no closer to finding out who killed Elena Alves, and our man Hugh Grant remains very guilty indeed. The only thing that is certain is that Hugh is a deceitful husband, an untrustworthy father and a manipulative rogue. Vintage Grant.  Join us on the airwaves or on YouTube as the boys chat about the best cliffhanger of 2020 and try their best to narrow down the list of suspects.

The Undoing follows Grace Fraser (Nicole Kidman) who is living the only life she ever wanted for herself. She's a successful therapist, has a devoted husband (Hugh Grant) and young son who attends an elite private school in New York City. Overnight a chasm opens in her life: a violent death, and a missing husband. Grace must dismantle one life and create another for her child and herself.

What will happen in the final episode? Send us your theories on Instagram and Facebook (@TakingHughforGranted) as well as Twitter (@TakingHugh). You can get in touch with us there or via our email [email protected]. Check out our YouTube channel while you're at it – also Taking Hugh for Granted.

Stand and deliver your ears to another episode of Taking Hugh for Granted in which Oscar and Diggory pick apart one of Hugh Grant's early TV films, The Lady and the Highwayman (TV Movie, 1989). Hugh Grant is at his sexy, swashbuckling best, but is that enough to ensure this film hasn't been taking Hugh for granted? 

Synopsis: A young Panthea Vyne (played by Lysette Anthony) falls in love with a handsome highwayman (played by Hugh Grant) who saves her from her brutal husband. When Charles II (played by Michael York) is reinstated as King of England, Lady Panthea learns of a plot to root out and kill the masked vigilante highwayman known as ‘The Silver Blade’...

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For those of you that want to skip disclaimers, opening theme tunes, salutations, synopses and go straight to the film analysis, head to 03:49

Since Oscar and Diggory's last review of The Undoing - Episode 1, Hugh Grant has betrayed his wife, lied to his father-in-law and returned to prison for the first time since Paddington 2. It's all kicking off and the investigation to find the murderer of Elena Alves heats up big time! The lads have a very special announcement too, launching the Taking Hugh for Granted YouTube channel to go alongside the podcast. Finally, you can see the faces behind our beautiful, albeit pompous voices! 

The story follows Grace Fraser (Nicole Kidman) who is living the only life she ever wanted for herself. She's a successful therapist, has a devoted husband (Hugh Grant) and young son who attends an elite private school in New York City. Overnight a chasm opens in her life: a violent death, and a missing husband. Grace must dismantle one life and create another for her child and herself.

Is Hugh guilty? Send us your theories on Instagram and Facebook (@TakingHughforGranted) as well as Twitter (@TakingHugh). You can get in touch with us there or via our email [email protected]. Check out our YouTube channel while you're at it – also Taking Hugh for Granted. 

Happy US election day Hugh Grant fans! We saved this week's movie, Two Weeks Notice (Marc Lawrence, 2002) for day of the 2020 presidential election, because not only does it star Hugh Grant and Sandra Bullock, but also man of the hour Donald J. Trump himself! Wherever your political alliances may lie, we hope you can join Diggory and Oscar having a good old chuckle at Hugh and The Don on-screen together. 

Harvard educated lawyer Lucy Kelson (Sandra Bullock), uses her career for social activism. George Wade (Hugh Grant) is the suave public face of the Manhattan-based Wade Corporation, a development firm whose ventures Lucy routinely opposes. George, who has a reputation as a lady's man, has appointed a series of beautiful female lawyers with questionable credentials, as his legal counsel for years. Now, needing a real lawyer, he offers Lucy the job on a chance meeting. Despite warnings from her parents in working for the "enemy", Lucy accepts the job, as long as George promises not to demolish a community centre as part of a development. Will opposites attract?

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For those of you that want to skip disclaimers, opening theme tunes, salutations, synopses and go straight to the film analysis, head to 3:55.

Fresh from watching the first episode of HBO's 'The Undoing', Oscar and Diggory sit down to dive into Hugh Grant's long-awaited return to our television sets. The Hugh Grant fanatics discuss murder theories, super couple Grace and Jonathan Fraser and whether there was nod to Paddington 2 in the making of the first episode...

The story follows Grace Fraser (Nicole Kidman) who is living the only life she ever wanted for herself. She's a successful therapist, has a devoted husband (Hugh Grant) and young son who attends an elite private school in New York City. Overnight a chasm opens in her life: a violent death, and a missing husband. Grace must dismantle one life and create another for her child and herself.

Do you think Hugh's a murderer? Send us your theories on Instagram and Facebook (@TakingHughforGranted) as well as Twitter (@TakingHugh). You can get in touch with us there or via our email [email protected]

Ahoy there Hugh Grant fans! Come walk the plank with Oscar and Diggory as they strike gold in this treasure chest of a film, The Pirates! Band of Misfits (Peter Lord, 2012). 

A Pirate Captain (voiced by Hugh Grant) sets out on a mission to defeat his rivals Peg Leg Hastings (voiced by Lenny Henry), Cutlass Liz (voiced by Salma Hayek) and Black Bellamy (voiced by Jeremy Piven) for the Pirate of the Year Award. The quest takes the Pirate Captain and his crew from the shores of Blood Island to the foggy streets of Victorian London where a pirate-hating Queen Victoria (voiced by Imelda Staunton) vows to put the crew at the bottom of the ocean. With the help of Charles Darwin (voiced by David Tennant) and a special flightless friend, find out whether the Pirate Captain's daring bid to rule the seven seas is successful or not.......Arrrrr!

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For those of you that want to skip disclaimers, opening theme tunes, salutations, synopses and go straight to the film analysis, head to 3:37.