Partridge has been on Sky for years now & his company has been producing stuff for Sky1 for a long time. You should know Coogan by now he'll follow the money wherever it takes him he's unapologetic in that regard its why a lot of people cant take to him.
Bit of a character assassination. Based on anything? I'm not suggesting money isn't important to him, but I've never regarded him as a commercial animal grabbing onto any vehicle.
As for the hypocrisy of working for Sky, I don't think it is quite so straightforward.
Firstly, judge it against your own standards. Are you an advocate of Don't Buy the S*n but still watch Sky Sports? I don't buy the Sun but I do watch Sky Sports. I think the energies of that particular campaign are rightly geared towards a very specific goal, which doesn't include a boycott of a whole media empire.
Secondly, The Sun's tabloid and repugnant practices are good reasons to object to what they stand for but that doesn't eliminate an artist to engage with a separate subsidiary of the same company. Coogan's rightful opposition to his treatment by the tabloid media (specifically NOTW and The Sun) shouldn't disqualify him from working with a company that are happy to fund a show he is starring in. Sky Atlantic is not a tabloid newspaper and doesn't have any creative links with those newspapers. Sky Atlantic have a strong reputation of producing and commissioning excellent television. I don't see the hypocrisy. I do, however, see too much misplaced ire and personal assassinations when it comes to this sort of thing.
Like with the campaign against the Sun in Liverpool, efforts and energies should be narrowed to serve a singular objective. Getting drawn into notions of hypocrisy are ultimately distracting and arguably unnecessarily sanctimonious. For me, it misses the point.
