The legendary Phoenix Arts Club, located in the heart of London’s West End, reopened its art deco doors on Monday 17 May to socially distanced audiences with a stellar line-up of cabaret, musical theatre, non-binary drag, comedy and burlesque performers. For some of the artists, this was the first time they had taken to a stage for over a year.
Member of Parliament for Hendon Constituency Matthew Offord has written to the Director-General of the BBC asking that he stop the broadcast of Desert Island Discs featuring Alexei Sayle, scheduled for this Sunday, 23rd May.
Offord also posted his request on his website adding the email address of Director-General Tim Davie so that people who support his request can also send an email.
New show Yesterday, Today and the Day Before offers a female take on world events, with the first episode featuring panellists Suzi Ruffell, Sophie Duker (pictured), Maisie Adam (pictured) and Steph McGovern. Labour Alumni Alistair Campbell also joins as a guest on the show.
Aisling Bea guest presents the last in the current 61st series of Have I Got News For You, on Friday 4th June, at 9pm - it will be Bea's first appearance on the programme.
Joining the actor and comedian as the two guest panellists will be fellow comedian and actor Roisin Conaty and BBC newsreader and the recently announced new host of 'Mastermind', Clive Myrie, who join team captains Ian Hislop and Paul Merton.
This Country star Daisy May Cooper is to star in a new BBC comedy drama.
Inspired by her book Skint Estate, Cash Carraway (working title) is a wild and punky tale of being trapped below the poverty line and doing everything it takes to escape.
My time in various lockdowns over the past year has certainly not been completely frittered away. I may not have baked any banana bread or mastered a foreign language, but I did something much more fruitful. I watched every episode of Inside No 9 anthology forerunner Tales of the Unexpected, the old ITV series – now available on Sky Arts - that took its cue from the twisted imagination of Roald Dahl.
In the face of escalating concern over the transmission and infection rate of the newly identified Indian variant which once again could potentially slam the doors shut on the events industry just as it’s about to crawl off the floor and take its first steps back to normality the Cambridge Comedy Festival has taken steps to counteract the situation and give its event a fighting chance of going ahead this July.
Using the same template and building on the recent scientifically successful trial events (football,
Comedians Jayde Adams, Lucy Porter, Dave Johns and Lou Sanders are among the competitors in this Saturday's edition of Pointless Celebrities.
Also taking part in the quiz show hosted by Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman are Chris Hollins, Dallas Campbell, Phil Daniels and Levi Roots.
Bafta award-winning and Golden Globe nominated James McAvoy (Split, X-Men franchise, His Dark Materials) and Bafta award-winning and Emmy nominated Sharon Horgan (Catastrophe, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, Military Wives) star in multi award-winning writer, Dennis Kelly’s (Utopia, Pulling, The Third Day) searingly funny and painfully poignant love story, Together
Apple TV+ has released the trailer for the second season of its critically acclaimed comedy series “Trying,” which will debut globally Friday, May 21. The series, which was recently renewed for a third season, will premiere with the first two episodes, followed by one new episode weekly every Friday, exclusively on Apple TV+.
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