Germany To Get Its Own Spitting Image

Sky Germany is to air a bespoke Spitting Image show to German audiences, with puppets of prominent national figures already in development.  In line with the roll out of the second series to BritBox UK and BritBox Australia, the innovative format and tape deal will see an approx.

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TV: Friday Night Dinner – 10 Years And a Lovely Bit Of Squirrel

Channel 4 gives over its Friday evening schedule to celebrate ten years of Friday Night Dinner, the comedy created and written by Robert Popper.

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TV: Inside No 9, Lip Service, BBC Two

One of the many takeaways from this week's episode, Lip Service, is that it's so different to the last two episodes in the current series of Inside No 9. 

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Marathon Charity Gig From Dark Room's John Robertson

John Robertson is taking on the herculean task of a 50 Hour online Twitch marathon for charity

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Phoenix Arts Club Reopens With Big Comedy Line Up

The legendary Phoenix Arts Club, located in the heart of London’s West End, reopened its art deco doors on Monday 17 May to socially distanced audiences with a stellar line-up of cabaret, musical theatre, non-binary drag, comedy and burlesque performers. For some of the artists, this was the first time they had taken to a stage for over a year.

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MP Calls For Alexei Sayle Desert Island Discs To Be Pulled

Member of Parliament for Hendon Constituency Matthew Offord has written to the Director-General of the BBC asking that he stop the broadcast of Desert Island Discs featuring Alexei Sayle, scheduled for this Sunday, 23rd May.

Offord also posted his request on his website adding the email address of Director-General Tim Davie so that people who support his request can also send an email.

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Female Satirical Comedy Show Launches

New show Yesterday, Today and the Day Before offers a female take on world events, with the first episode featuring panellists Suzi Ruffell, Sophie Duker (pictured), Maisie Adam (pictured) and Steph McGovern. Labour Alumni Alistair Campbell also joins as a guest on the show.

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Aisling Bea to Host Have I Got News For You

Aisling Bea guest presents the last in the current 61st series of Have I Got News For You, on Friday 4th June, at 9pm - it will be Bea's first appearance on the programme. 

Joining the actor and comedian as the two guest panellists will be fellow comedian and actor Roisin Conaty and BBC newsreader and the recently announced new host of 'Mastermind', Clive Myrie, who join team captains Ian Hislop and Paul Merton. 

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Daisy May Cooper to Star In New BBC Comedy Drama

This Country star Daisy May Cooper is to star in a new BBC comedy drama.

Inspired by her book Skint Estate, Cash Carraway (working title) is a wild and punky tale of being trapped below the poverty line and doing everything it takes to escape.

TV: Inside No 9 – Simon Says, BBC Two

My time in various lockdowns over the past year has certainly not been completely frittered away. I may not have baked any banana bread or mastered a foreign language, but I did something much more fruitful. I watched every episode of Inside No 9 anthology forerunner Tales of the Unexpected, the old ITV series – now available on Sky Arts - that took its cue from the twisted imagination of Roald Dahl. 

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