Danny Baker is to head out on tour with veteran DJ "Whispering" Bob Harris. The dates were originally scheduled for 2020 but have now been moved to 2021/2022 - see below for ticket link and dates.
The show, entitled Harris and Baker's Backstage Pass, will find the two seasoned broadcasters reminiscing onstage about their lives in television and rock and roll.
Julian Barratt is one of the guest stars in the second series of The Moomins. He plays Mr Brisk - who is the character in the middle in the picture here.
Rosamund Pike, Matt Berry and Taron Egerton return as Moominmamma, Moominpappa and Moomintroll, along with Barratt, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (Oz, Suicide Squad, Thor: The Dark World), Miriam-Teak Lee (Hamilton, & Juliet) and Shalom Brune-Franklin (The State, Bad Mothers, Our Girl).
Award winning comedian and poet Rob Auton launches The Rob Auton Daily Podcast on the 1st January 2020. Episodes from the podcast produced by Ben Williams for Plosive Productions (Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster, Audible Live), will be released for 366 consecutive days of the leap year.
Sheffield's David Eagle has been crowned New Comedian of the Year at the final at the Leicester Square Theatre.
Second place went to Josh Baulf.
Joint third was shared between Lily Phillips and Luke Craig,
Mick Ferry was MC and the other finalists were:
UKTV has commissioned a follow-up to Britain’s Greatest Comedian for its comedy channel Gold.
UKTV Original Britain’s Greatest Comedy Character sees a jury of nine comedians, actors, writers, journalists and critics battle it out under the watchful gaze of judge Sally Phillips, as they attempt to agree on who is the country’s greatest.
Bec Hill is taking her deconstructed comedy show Out of Order on the road. The tour starts in Leicester at the Firebug on April 19.
In her show Hill (The Stand-Up Sketch Show, Dara O Briain’s Go 8 Bit) reveals her set-list and lets the audience choose the order of the show. This means that every performance will be unique and personally tailored not just TO, but BY the crowd.
Ex-UKTV commissioning editor Joe McVey has set up a new production company called Super Best Quality Video Productions.
A report here says it will focus on scripted and non-scripted comedy and is backed by BAFTA-nominated independent Strawberry Blond.
At UKTV McVey oversaw programmes including Judge Romesh and Hypothetical. The new company will be based in Bristol.
The third series of royal spoof The Windsors will see a completely new side to Prince Harry. Tom Durant-Pritchard (The Crown, Judy and Feel Good) will take up the role of the young prince. Under the orders of his wife Meghan (Kathryn Drysdale), Harry tries to replace his hard drinking and rugger-bugger ways with mindfulness and mint tea. Fortunately though his IQ remains unchanged: 8.
Tom Durant-Pritchard said: “I am thrilled to be joining The Windsors family... it has been a pleasure playing such a well-loved character.”
A night of comedy to commemorate the genius of Jeremy Hardy, as performed by his friends, has been announced.
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