Ross Kemp is heading back to BBC One to host a new series of hit quiz show Bridge of Lies – and this time, he’s taking on Saturday nights.
The series – which became the BBC’s best-performing new daytime quiz show of the previous 12 months when it first aired in March 2022 – will see this celebrity special on from 6.05pm from Saturday 14 January, with teams of celebrity contestants competing for the first time.
The ITV interview with Prince Harry was trending on Twitter before the programme was even broadcast with the hashtag #HarryTheInterview. The exclusive programme coincides with the publication of Prince Harry's book entitled Spare. In the controversial talk with Tom Bradby Prince Harry discussed taking drugs, mushrooms and cocaine, his relationship with his older brother William and much more.
Comedy Central has announced the return of Comedy Central Live.
Shot across four nights in October 2022, each episode of the new series spotlights one of the UK’s hottest up-and-coming stand-up talents as they take to the stage at Islington’s iconic comedy institution, the Pleasance Theatre.
The award winning, crowdfunded, profit sharing show champions the talent of working class comedians. Best in Class were awarded the Edinburgh Comedy Awards Panel Prize for their work in 2022.
Arthur Smith’s show My First 75 Years In Comedy will transfer to Pleasance London in March 2023. Following a sold out and acclaimed run at the Edinburgh Fringe this year, London audiences will be able to catch up with Arthur as he reminisces about his many years visiting the Fringe, his stand up career and the adventures he has had along the way.
Comedian Darren Harriott has spoken frankly about his one-time membership of a gang and how his life could have so easily gone in a different direction. In an interview with Chris Harvey in the Telegraph the Birmingham comedian, who is set to appear in the new series of Dancing on Ice before going on tour later this year, spoke at length about his pre-comedy past.
Harriott talked candidly about his father, recalling a phone call from him at the end of 1999: "I was so happy to hear from him.
New Zealand-based comedian Urzila Carlson made a global splash with her 2020 Netflix special, Overqualified Loser. As anyone who has seen it will know she is a whipsmart, opinionated stand-up with charisma to spare.
Tributes have been paid to John Bird, who has died aged 86. Bird's career stretched from the satire boom of the 1960s to breaking through to a new audience with his work with Rory Bremner.
Bremner led the tributes on Twitter:
"Deeply saddened to hear that the great John Bird has left us. One of the most modest of men and most brilliant of satirists. And one of the last surviving pillars of the anti-establishment.
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Two generations of comedians are represented in this week's festive editions of Richard Osman's House of Games. Brian Conley comes from the Bradley Walsh school of light entertainment mainstream comics, while Phil Wang is very much part of the latest wave of Oxbridge stand-ups becoming TV regulars.
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