Set to broadcast in two one-hour films, this family treat is inspired by the classic books of Barbara Euphan Todd and is pegged to be the TV event of the season.
Dave’s Edinburgh Comedy Awards winner Jordan Brookes and other acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe shows are to play a three night gala run in London’s West End.
I had a bit of deja vu watching the first episode of this new legal comedy. It is actually the episode that went out as a pilot last year but I'm not suprised a series was commissioned off the back of it. It's a refreshing take on the world of dusty wigs and funny outfits.
The Manchester Podcast Festival has announced the line-up for its second year, bringing together some of the UK’s most popular podcasts. The festival will begin with Help! I Sexted My Boss at The Dancehouse Theatre on 1st November 2019, and will see live dates across a host of venues in the city throughout the month, concluding on 27th November 2019.
Following Sweden’s version of Taskmaster, ‘Bäst i Test!’ (“Best in Test!”) winning Programme of the Year at the Kristallen 2019 (Sweden’s TV Academy Awards) more countries are creating local versions of Alex Horne’s comedy game show. Finland’s MTV and Discovery in Norway have picked up the rights from Avalon, adding to Taskmaster’s growing presence in the Nordic region with Denmark continuing production on its third series with TV2, and Sweden producing its fourth series of the award-winning show for SVT 1.
It looks like comedians and their parents as a travel documentary concept is set to run and run. While Romesh Ranganathan does seem to have shaken off his mother for the time being at least, Comedy Central has just announced the return of Russell Howard and his mum and Netflix has just released the third instalment of Jack Whitehall's tetchy trekking with his father Michael.
Russell Howard and his mum Ninette are off on brand new and unusual adventures in India, South Korea, Thailand and Japan. The highly anticipated fourth series of Russell Howard and Mum: Globetrotters premieres on Comedy Central UK on the 9th of October at 10pm.
The new series of Live at the Apollo has been filmed at the legendary venue in Hammersmith, West London.
The full line-up has not been officially announced yet but Beyond The joke has heard from other sources that the following names are appearing on the series. The shows were filmed over three days – Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. The 1pm show on Wednesday 11th September was the Christmas Special.
Sara Pascoe hosts this new series in which comedians are given the titles of real lectures and invited to give their own version of that lecture. The first episode features Nish Kumar, Natasia Demetriou & Tom Allen. Nish’s lecture is ‘10 Ways the World Could End’, Natasia’s is ‘Anatomy of the Vagina’ and Tom’s is ‘Why We Make Bad Decisions’. All three lectures are judged by an expert and then the audience help to decide the winner by voting for their favourite lecture.
Stewart Lee is to become the first comedian to do a book launch on a barge. Lee will read from his new book MARCH OF THE LEMMINGS, from the deck of WORD ON THE WATER, the floating bookshop moored on the Regent's Canal in Granary Square, near London's King's Cross, on Sunday 15th September at 2pm.
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