News: New Comedy Horror Podcast Showcasing Female And Non-Binary Comedy Writers

Comedians Charlie Dinkin and Zoe Tomalin have launched a new comedy-horror podcast. SeanceCast is a ten episode series featuring sketches from new and emerging female and non-binary comedy writers.

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TV: Not Going Out, BBC One, with Lee Mack, Bobby Ball

Well I guess if one sitcom title sums up 2020 it's this one. And they've given us a sort of socially distanced lockdown episode to see out the old year and see in the new (albeit a day early) with the entire cast including Bobby Ball all in one room throughout the special.

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News: Meera Syal's Granny Kumar To Return To Front New Celebrity Interview Series

Meera Syal’s comedy creation Granny Kumar is set to return to host a new Radio 4 celebrity interview series.

Gossip And Goddesses stars Syal as Granny Kumar, with her great granddaughter Maya (Ambreen Razia) and arch nemesis 'frenemy' Geeta (Harvey Virdi) to chat with a host of fascinating female guests. Starting with Samira Ahmed & Thandie Newton, Granny Kumar also talks to women including Beverley Knight, Maggie Aderin-Pocock, Anoushka Shankar, Konnie Huq, Mandip Gill and Anita Rani.

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News: How Rory Bremner Got John Major Out Of A Pickle

Recently released papers have revealed how Rory Bremner may have saved John Major from a leadership challenge when he was Prime Minister.

Documents from the National Archives tell how Bremner impersonated the PM on the phone to Eurosceptic Tory MPs in 1993.

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News: ITV Gig For Maisie Adam

Maisie Adam is to do the voiceover on major new ITV reality show The Cabins, which launches in January.

Adam tweeted the news: "Anyone who knows me knows I bloody LOVE a dating show, so I’m over the moon to be providing the voice in your ears for this brilliant show - I can’t wait for you all to see it!"

In the series singletons are challenged to the most revealing first date of their lives as they attempt to find true love. 

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News: The Graham Norton Show New Year's Eve Line-Up, BBC One

The line-up has been confirmed for Graham Norton's New Year's Eve show on Thursday night. 

The award-winning Irish chat show host will be joined by a glittering array of guests including Tom Hanks, Jessica Chastain, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Jamie Dornan, Emily Blunt, food writer Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and comedian Nish Kumar. 

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TV Review: Last Woman on Earth with Sara Pascoe, BBC Two

There was a fuss a while back about the lack of female travel series presenters on mainstream television. Joanna Lumley seemed to be flying a fairly solitary flag, but now here comes Sara Pascoe to pick up the baton with her own series looking at, and trying her hand at “the world’s most endangered jobs”.

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Interviews: Alison Steadman and Tom Basden Discuss New Comedy Pandemonium

Alison Steadman is one of the stars of BBC one-off comedy Pandemonium, alongside Katherine Parkinson and Jim Howick. Tom Basden also stars in it and also wrote it.

Tom Basden previously wrote and appeared in the hit ITV2 comedy Plebs. He was in the sketch group Cowards and often works with fellow Cowards member Tim Key,

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TV: QI – Rejoice! A Christmas Special, BBC Two, 9.30pm

Sandi Toksvig returns to host a festive edition of QI based around the letter R, so let's all Rejoice!

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News: Taskmaster Podcast to Return In 2021

After reaching 1.5 Million downloads with its debut series, the official Taskmaster Podcast is set to launch a second series in the new year hosted by Series 9 Taskmaster Champion Ed Gamble. Produced by the creators of the hit show, the podcast will be available to download from 7th January 2021. 

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