The London Podcast Festival has just added Paloma Faith to the roster of guests. She will appear on Wrong Turns with Jameela Jamil on Friday 11 September at 19:00 at Kings Place. Faith joins fellow guest Kyla Cobbler as they share their most humiliating true storie. The festival runs from Thursday 3 to Sunday 13 September.
The current Festival schedule is below
Entries marked *NEW* are newly announced additions to the line-up.
THU 3 SEPT
David Mitchell has revealed that there will be a Christmas special of Ludwig this December.
It will be set in an isolated hotel and, inevitably, there will be a dead body and Poirot Sir David Suchet will take on the role of a murder suspect.
Joe Wilkinson will also appear alongside Mitchell and Anna Maxwell Martin. Also appearing will be Jason Flemyng, Cathy Tyson, Alexandra Roach and Kiell Smith-Bynoe.
OK, so the numbers have been crunched and the results are in. I had a relatively low-key Edinburgh Fringe this year – I only saw 84 shows. Plus one show being interviewed by Thom Tuck onstage. I should hang my head in shame. I managed to review most of them. Here is a round-up of the ones that almost got away.
The new series of Taskmaster starts on C4 on Thursday, September 3 at 9pm and 10pm BST / 5pm EST / 2pm PST on the Taskmaster YouTube Channel across the rest of the world.
Below are Season 22 Teasers with Chloe Petts, Isy Suttie and Matt Lucas.
Ahead of the launch of his new four-part Radio 4 series, Namaste, on 10th September, we caught up with Omid to talk about the role comedy plays in an increasingly polarised world, people’s biggest misconceptions about him, and how he stays hopeful.
You describe the world as feeling louder, angrier and stranger than ever. Do you think we're actually more divided today, or just hearing more disagreement?
It’s hard to say. Much of what we see online is AI.
Following a hugely successful Edinburgh Festival Fringe and New York Soho Playhouse run in the autumn, Sky Arts Award-winning comedian Elf Lyons is set to perform her critically acclaimed show, Elf Lyons IS The Woman on the Edge at Soho Theatre Walthamstow in January 2027.
This was the most talked about comedy show at the Edinburgh Fringe this year and a shock omission from the Edinburgh Comedy Awards list. Read our review here.
Rose Matafeo is set to compete in a second series of Taskmaster. Having appeared in the UK version in 2019, she is now been names as one of the contestants in the New Zealand version.
Following a successful pilot, Channel 4 have commissioned a series of the new play-at-home gameshow, Your Time Starts Now (w/t). The new 8x60’ series is devised and developed by Alex Horne, creator and host of BAFTA and Rose D’Or winning Taskmaster and Andy Devonshire, founding Series Director on shows including The Apprentice, The Great British Bake Off and Taskmaster.
Prime Video has revealed the line-up for the third series of UK Original series Last One Laughing. The brand new series, hosted by Jimmy Carr, will see a fresh group of British comics fight for the Last One Laughing trophy.
Hit comedy Ann Droid has been commissioned for a second run after attracting 7.6 million viewers (28 days) for episode one, making it the BBC’s second biggest new scripted launch of the year to date, after Small Prophets.
The show, produced by Boffola Pictures and Witchcraft Industries, was created by BAFTA and Emmy nominated actor and writer Diane Morgan (Mandy, Cunk) and co-written by Morgan and Sarah Kendall (Frayed, The Other One).
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