Paddy McGuinness to join ITV2’s Celebrity Juice as the new team captain
After much anticipation, ITV2 and Talkback (part of Fremantle) today confirmed that Paddy McGuinness (Take Me Out, Top Gear) will be the new team captain on the award-winning panel show, Celebrity Juice.
Underbelly Festival Southbank has announced more shows to the line-up today bringing some of the very best circus, comedy, cabaret, variety, live podcasting and family entertainment to the banks of the Thames.
Comedy names joining the bill will include The Daily Show’s UK correspondent and international stand-up sensation Gina Yashere dropping in from 21-23 June.
HowTheLightGetsIn, the world’s largest philosophy and music festival that gathers Nobel Prize winners, politicians and comedians together with the hottest music performers, has announced its comedy line up for this year’s festival, May 24th-27th 2019.
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.
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