Audible today launches the return of The Graham Norton Book Club for its second series.
Jim Moir, Jessie Cave, Jordan Stephens, Rose Matafeo, Caryn Franklin and Tomasz Shafernacker will showcase their own artistic flair in a Sky Original Celebrity Landscape Artist of the Year.
The programme will be hosted, as usual, by Stephen Mangan and Joan Bakewell and airs on November 3 ahead of the main series in early 2022.
The programe is part of Sky's range of climate focused content coinciding with COP26.
Veteran comic Barry Cryer, children’s TV favourite Andy Day, satirist Armando Iannucci and the comedians/actors David Mitchell, Sally Phillips and Tim Vine are among the latest celebrities to join the line-up for the 2022 edition of the UK’s biggest festival of silent and classic screen comedy, Slapstick.
Award-winning comedian, author and cycling enthusiast David O’Doherty is heading out on a carefree, two-wheeled adventure, but he’s not travelling alone.
I don't know why but in my head QI is the poor relation of Would I Lie to You? and Have I Got New For You. Or maybe a more appropriate description is that QI is the older, brainier, sibling, even though chronologically Have I Got News is actually the oldest.
Anyway, enough of that, this panel show is consistently funny as well as enlightening. When Stephen Fry quit the quizmaster's chair the doommongers suggested it might fizzle out, but it is still going strong with Sandi Toksvig at the helm.
Alan Carr is to host The Royal Variety Performance from the magnificent Royal Albert Hall in London, which celebrates its 150th anniversary this very year. The world’s longest running entertainment show - 2021 marks the 109th event and this year, the Royal Variety Charity is celebrating 100 years of our reigning Monarch being their Patron, commencing with His Majesty King George V in 1921. Once again, the event will be held in the presence of senior members of the Royal Family
Australian comedy drama Bump has just dropped on iPlayer. It's about an ambitious teenage girl who has a surprise baby and the complications that arise for two families,
Year 11 student Olympia (‘Oly’) Chalmers-Davis (Nathalie Morris) knows exactly where she is going but finds her life irrevocably changed when she collapses in agony and is stunned to discover she is in labour and the father is not her boyfriend.
Classic comedies have featured in a poll of the greatest television programmes of the 21st Century.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge's Fleabag – not a traditional sitcom but a programme with a comedy element – came in at number 4. The Office – BBC version – also featured in the overall top ten at number 9.
Succession, which has its darkly comic moments – came in at number 10. Animated comedy Bojack Horseman was number 11. Atlanta was number 14. 30 Rock was 17.
The third series of the award-winning comedy Stath Lets Flats will start on Channel 4 on Tuesday 26th October at 10.15pm.
The BAFTA-bagging comedy is written by and stars Jamie Demetriou as Stath, the incompetent Greek-Cypriot letting agent who works in the family business, Michael & Eagle Lettings, in north London.
David Sedaris has announced a 20 date UK tour for 2022 which starts on Sunday 10th July at Edinburgh’s Usher Hall and culminates on 2nd August at Cardiff’s St. David’s Hall. The celebrated writers run includes the rescheduled dates at London’s Royal Festival Hall on 30th & 31st July and Manchester’s The Lowry on 1st August. The tour is preceded by a new book in June 2022 entitled ‘Happy-Go-Lucky’
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