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.
Monty Python veteran Terry Jones has been diagnosed with dementia.
I used to think of podcasts as the kind of thing nerdy spods did in their bedroom for other nerdy spods to listen to in their bedroom, but in recent years they have gone overground. There are podcasts for all tastes and a lot of the best comedy-related ones are getting a live outing at Kings Place at the first ever London Podcast Festival. For the full line-up click on the link below.
Comedian Nish Kumar has contributed to a new anthology of writing about life in multicultural Britain today.
The Good Immigrant brings together emerging British BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic) writers, poets, journalists and artists. In these essays about race and immigration, they paint a picture of what it means to be ‘other’ in a country that wants you, doesn’t want you, doesn’t accept you, needs you for its equality monitoring forms and would prefer you if you won a major reality show competition.
Joe’s first panel of celebrity guests - to be quizzed on how people close to them answered certain questions - will include television presenter Tim Lovejoy and comedians Holly Walsh and Nish Kumar.
It was interesting this week to see that Mel & Sue decided to quit The Great British Bake Off after it was announced that it will be moving to Channel 4. What will be even more interesting, however, will be to see what they do next.
Clem Fandango, the horse rather than the character in C4 sitcom Toast of London, notched up a victory in the Harry Rosebery Stakes at Ayr at 3.40pm on Friday. The trainer was Keith Dalgleish and the jockey was Phillip Makin.
It gave first-season sire Elzaam his first stakes winner (whatever that means).
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