Interview
Comedian, actor and multi award winning writer/director JD Shapiro will be premiering his new and second ever comedy hour ‘If It Ain’t Woke... Don’t Fix It: Stories from The Hood to Hollywood’ at Just The Tonic Caves.
The show tells his incredible life story, from growing up poor in small communities in New Jersey & NYC’s Hell’s Kitchen to how he made it to Hollywood with no money and no connections.
Character comedian Gabby Killick returns to the Gilded Balloon with a new show ‘Conversations With My Agent’. This is her fourth solo show at the Fringe. All her previous shows - ‘Game Of Thongs’, ‘Girlfriend From Hell’ and ‘The Bitch Is Back’ were sell-outs.
Introducing US based stand-up comedian, actor, writer & director Avital Ash, who has already amassed over 100 million views across her socials. She makes her Edinburgh Fringe Festival debut with her show ‘Avital Ash Workshops Her Suicide Note’ at the Monkey Barrel.
Ange Lavoipierre (pictured) brings her brand new show ‘Your Mother Chucks Rocks And Shells’ to the Edinburgh Fringe Underbelly - George Square Gardens. Already a critical success at the Adelaide Fringe, this marks the first time she has moved away from straight stand-up and, no longer concerned with or constricted by genre, presents THE show she has really always wanted to do.
Based on the real-life experiences of writers Shaun Pye and Sarah Crawford, whose daughter was born with an extremely rare chromosomal disorder, There She Goes follows the day-to-day life of Rosie Yates (Miley Locke), a severely learning-disabled girl and her family, dad Simon (David Tennant), mum Emily (Jessica Hynes) and older brother Ben (Edan Hayhurst).
Comedy channel Gold is dedicating June to celebrating the much-loved comedy series Blackadder, as the iconic show celebrates its 40th anniversary on June 15th.
As part of the celebrations Gold has commissioned two brand new UKTV Originals, including Blackadder: The Lost Pilot (June 15, 9pm), produced by Red Sauce, and Blackadder: A Cunning Story produced by Tiger Aspect (a Banijay UK company).
Significant Other, starring Katherine Parkinson and Youssef Kerkour, is an unconventional love story told through a comedic lens, which explores the depths of love, disappointment, and the surprises that life still has to offer.
BAFTA award winning actor and writer Gbemisola Ikumelo (Famalam, A League of Their Own), Hammed Animashaun (Black Mirror, The Wheel of Time) and BAFTA award winning actor and producer Akemnji Ndifornyen (Famalam, The Queen’s Gambit) star in the high-concept comedy thriller, Black Ops, coming to BBC One and BBC iPlayer from Friday 5th May and produced by BBC Studios Comedy Productions and Mondo Deluxe.
Hugh Skinner plays Wills in the forthcoming Coronation Special of The Windsors which airs on C4 on Sunday, April 30 at 9pm. He talks about the show below and is pictured with Amit Shah who plays Rishi Sunak.
Is The Windsors as much fun to be in as it is to watch?
It’s been going for a relatively long time now, and I’m not sure any of us thought when we did the first series that we’d still be doing it seven years later. But it's a stunning group of people, and yes we have a great time!
Channel 4's comedy-drama crime caper The Curse is back for a second series and this time it's gone Spanish. The gang are hiding out on the Costa Del Crime beyond the reach of the police. Expect comedy, drama and eighties fashion from the cast that includes Tom Davis and People Just Do Nothings' Allan Mustafa, Steve Stamp and Hugo Chegwin and, joing for the new series, Kiell Smith-Bynoe from Ghosts. Tom Davis talks about the show below.
The Curse, Thursdays from April 27, 10pm, C4.
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