Taking Hugh for Granted

Oscar and Diggory review Hugh Grant's role in the fourth instalment of the Bridget Jones series - Mad About the Boy (Michael Morris, 2025).After the death of her husband Mark Darcy, Bridget Jones (Renee Zellweger) is determined to get her life back on track. Returning to work and new to the dating apps, she's pursued by the young, dashing Rex (Leo Woodall) and her son's hot science tea...

Hugh Grant fans have got their first preview of the return of Daniel Cleaver in the trailer of Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, due to be released on Valentine's Day 2025. Diggory and Oscar discuss Daniel Cleaver's apparent return from the dead and what his relationship with Bridget could look like in the fourth (and final?) installment of the Bridget Jones series. There is also time to talk abou...

Hugh Grant mega fans Oscar and Diggory return for a review of the Bumbling Brit's newest film - Heretic (Scott Beck & Bryan Woods, 2024)... After a long day, two young Mormon missionaries in Sister Barnes (played by Sophie Thatcher) and Sister Paxton (played by Chloe East) knock on the door of the all-too-welcoming Mr Reed (played by Hugh Grant). When the blueberry pie and Mrs Reed that he pro...

Oscar and Diggory dissect the trailer for Heretic, a horror about two young missionaries who are given the ultimate test of their faith by an evil, twisted man, played by Hugh Grant... 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 ⁠⁠takinghughforgranted@g...

Unfrosted, directed by Jerry Seinfeld, and released in 2024. Kellogg's Bob Cabana (Jerry Seinfeld) assembles a team to engineer a toasted pastry that could change breakfast forever: the Pop Tart. However, it won't be so straightforward. Kellogg's archnemisis, Post, is racing to develop a rival product first. Milkmen from Big Milk are threatening repercussions should Kellogg's stray...

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 cr...

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...

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 takinghughforgranted@gmai...

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 1...

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 fi...

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 Flor...

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 e...

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 t...

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 Clou...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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!&...

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&...

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 h...

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...

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 J udith Krantz novel, Till We Meet Again . In the full swing of the First World War in 1915, Eve (played by...

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...

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 wit...