Comedian Ross Noble's first film as a director is to be screened in October in London.
The screening of The Catchment will take place at the Prince Charles Cinema in Leicester Square on October 22 as part of Frightfest's 780-minute screening of horror films sponsored by the Horror Channel. Noble, who also stars in the film, will be present.
A television channel in New Zealand has commissioned a spin-off of the hit vampire comedy movie What We Do In The Shadows.
Paranormal Event Response Unit is conceived by the team behind the film, Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi, and will air on TVNZ 2.
The TV version will focus on police officers Karen and Mike, whose job is to protect people from supernatural phenomena.
Tim Key is to appear in the upcoming 20th anniversary revival of Yasmina Reza's play Art at the Old Vic.
Key will star alongside Paul Ritter from Friday Night Dinner and Rufus Sewell as the three friends who clash over their attitude to modern art.
When the play was first staged in London a number of major comedians appeared in it, including Jack Dee and the cast of the League of Gentlemen. Key previously appeared at the Old Vic alongside Daniel Kitson in Kitson's piece Tree.
Comedian Damian Kingsley has raised over £20,000 for Shelter and Shelter Scotland following his "penniless" tour from Land's End to Edinburgh in which all the proceeds went to charity. He is now writing a book about his experience.
I have to confess that outspoken American satirist Barry Crimmins is a new name to me, but he has a pretty impressive CV. He was a key figure in the Boston comedy movement in the eighties and more recently has become known for his campaigns against online child pornography - Crimmins was raped as a child. If you want more background fellow comic Bobcat Goldthwait made the documentary about him entitled Call Me Lucky.
Russell Howard's new six-part series, Russell Howard & Mum USA Road Trip, will premiere on Comedy Central UK on Wednesday 19th October at 10pm.
Hans Teeuwen’s eagerly anticipated UK tour starts at the Soho Theatre tonight. Many of the early dates are already sold out but there should be some tickets available for later shows if you click here and scroll down.
A few years ago, following a performance in Edinburgh, someone said of my shows that they were all about freedom. Only on rare occasions throughout my nearly twenty-year career (if you can call it that) have I ever flirted with the possibility that any of my shows had a theme. Usually, when queried about theme by an interviewer or prospective punter, I opt for the convenient catch-all terms of “dreamlike” or “nightmare-esque” or even “LSD trip”.
Channel 4 has acquired the UK broadcast rights to This Is Us, the latest show from Dan Fogelman, the writer/reator of Crazy, Stupid, Love.
With its first-look trailer amassing a record-breaking 64 million Facebook views and 8.5 million on Youtube, the 20th Century Fox Television series has become the most anticipated show of the season.
I, Daniel Blake, the film directed by Ken Loach and starring comedian Dave Johns has won the Audience Prize Award at the San Sebastian Film Festival.
Johns posted the news on Twitter, adding that it had won with the highest score ever in the festival's history.
The film has already won the Palme D'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and is released in the UK on October 21.
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