Welcome to the world of the never-ending tour. Adam Kay is doing a West End run at the Garrick Theatre of his latest show. Well, I say latest. It's the show I reviewed here in March 2017. And I was pretty late to the party even then.
Fans of TV comedy have been getting excited recently over a run of great new shows in the pipeline such as Home, Derry Girls and a little old thing featuring Alan Partridge. Well, it's not all cutting edge comedy out there though. On the same night that Alan Partridge returns BBC One is also launching this new sitcom starring Martin Clunes.
James Acaster is to write a book about music released in 2016.
Senior commissioning editor at Headline Richard Roper acquired world rights for Perfect Sound Whatever from Caroline Chignell at PBJ Management. Headline previously published his debut Classic Scrapes.
Jennifer Saunders is to star as Madame Arcati in Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit as part of Theatre Royal Bath’s Summer Season. Further casting and the full summer programme will be announced in due course.
Alan Partridge, it’s been 25 years since your last BBC presenting job.
Following news of a Bill Hicks tribute night on Monday February 25 there is a second tribute in London next week to mark 25 years since the legendary stand-up comedian died.
On Tuesday, February 26 the BFI on the South Bank will be screening Hicks' classic live show Revelations, which was filmed at the Dominion Theatre and caught the comic at his fulminating best.
The Leicester Comedy Festival’s Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year Competition has been running 25 years (this year's final is on Feb 23) and has featured future stars including Johnny Vegas and Jason Manford. The latter looked terrifyingly young in a clip of archive footage at the start of an epic evening featuring previous acts. The gig featured so many winners and finalists it felt like it lasted a quarter of a century too. But in a Good Way.
With over a thousand shows at the Edinburgh Fringe last year I suppose it was inevitable that some brilliant performers might fly under the radar. Sean McLoughlin didn't get seen by many critics, but those that did see him raved about him. With good reason. McLoughlin is a natural, classic stand-up.
With filming underway for the fifth series of the award-winning and critically-acclaimed Inside No. 9, a host of talented actors are set to join Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton as they create six brand new stand-alone stories which promise to bring more exceptionally twisted tales to BBC Two.
Eight-time Bafta TV award-winner Graham Norton is no stranger to RuPaul’s Drag Race, having already appeared on RuPaul’s Drag Race: All Stars season two in the US as a guest judge in 2016.
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