It was announced just before this second series started that there would be a third series of Motherland. It's be interesting to see how it evolves as there are a few changes in the opening episode of the second run.
Josh Widdicombe has extended his current "Bit Much" tour into 2020 due to demand.
Tickets for the new dates are on general sale from Friday 11th October at 10am. Please find full dates and listings information here.
I was lucky enough to see a very early press screening of the new Chris Morris film The Day Shall Come. At the time I enjoyed it but couldn't help feeling that it didn't strike the same chord in me as Four Lions. That film seemed to have everything, most notably a glorious sense of absurdity about modern terrorism. There was something very English about Four Lions which made it way more relatable than The Day Shall Come, which also looks at the grass roots war on terror but is set in Florida.
The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there. Well, they certainly do RuPaul's Drag Race differently in the UK. Where the American version oozes glamour, the British version is a little more Carry On Panto At The End of the Peir. The winner gets a "Ru-Peter badge". I don't think you get drag acts in America called Baga Chipz or Cheryl Hole using words like "gobshite" and "minge".*
Audible, the world’s leading provider of spoken-word entertainment, has secured worldwide English language audio rights to David Mitchell’s new book Dishonesty Is The Second-Best Policy: And Other Rules To Live By, narrated by Mitchell himself.
Winner of Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Show and Best Newcomer and four-time Chortle Award nominee John Kearns is set to embark on his biggest UK tour yet from 11th October and a run at Soho Theatre from 25th November with brand new show Double Take and Fade Away, following a run at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Tickets are now on sale.
Laura Kennedy has joined the Avalon Group as the company’s chief executive officer and a member of the Board of Directors. Avalon’s founders Jon Thoday and Richard Allen-Turner will become Co-Executive Chairmen of the company. The company represents some of the biggest names in comedy including David Baddiel, Al Murray and Russell Howard.
ITV2 show Don't Hate The Playaz looks set to make history with the second episode of their second series, which airs at 10pm on Wednesday, October 2.
One of the panelists Sophie Duker had tweeted that it is the "first ever UK telly panel made up entirely of black women."
The panellists are Maya Jama (captain), Sabrina Washington and regular London Hughes taking on Lady Leshurr (captain), Sophie Duker and Ms Banks.
Appropriately it is currently Black History Month.
The transmission date has been confirmed for the new series Upright, starring Tim Minchin and Milly Alcock. It is set to air on 28th November on Sky Atlantic and NOW TV.
Also written by Minchin, Upright follows two misfits thrown together by chance in the middle of the Australian desert, who forge the unlikeliest of bonds in their quest to get a precious piano from one side of the country to the other.
Adam Hills, Reece Shearsmith, Terry Alderton, Ben Bailey Smith, Dave Cohen, Dave Fulton and John Hegley are among the stars set to take part in a special night marking what would have been Sean Hughes' 54th birthday.
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