Principal photography is now underway on the seventh series of Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith’s critically acclaimed and BAFTA-award winning anthology series Inside No. 9 (6 x 30), plus a first look image of the brand new series is also revealed alongside casting details.
Dave Chappelle has added another date to his rescheduled run at the Eventim Apollo.
Chappelle was due to appear in London in August but the dates were moved.
The internationally recognized stand-up comedian and actor’s trademark wit and sharp, irreverent social commentary explores race, popular culture, sex, drugs, politics and fame. Arguably the most-touring comic on the circuit, Chappelle has performed more than 1,600 concerts worldwide in the past four years, selling out shows within minutes of the announcements.
Sky Comedy Rep, a partnership between Sky Studios and the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, has announced the eleven writers chosen to take part in the scheme that aims to discover and develop new regional comedy writing talent from across the UK.
The hugely popular Assembly Festival Garden will return to Coventry in the spring after proving to be a UK City of Culture hit.
The pop-up venue on the site of the former civic centre buildings, now owned by Coventry University, was unveiled in July in a partnership between Coventry City of Culture Trust and Assembly Festival.
We are going to be seeing a lot of Greg Davies in the next few weeks. And, as you know, there is already a lot of the six foot eight inches comedian. He is back to host both Taskmaster on C4 and Never Mind The Buzzcocks on Sky Max, but first up he gets his acting chops around this new series, loosely based on a German hit Der Tatortreiniger (Crime Scene Cleaner) and written by Davies, in which he plays the titular scrubber who has to sort out the mess after particularly gruesome killings.
A host of celebrities including; Ed Balls, Dame Judi Dench, Pixie Lott, Joe Lycett, Alex Scott, Joe Sugg and Josh Widdicombe, are set to unravel their family history in the new series of Who Do You Think You Are?.
The first images have been released from from the upcoming BBC/Amazon series, The Outlaws (previously The Offenders), from multi-award-winning writer and director Stephen Merchant.
Soho Theatre has announced a 12-night run of String Vs Spitta starring Kiell Smith-Bynoe (Ghosts, Stath Let’s Flats) and Ed MacArthur (Murder for Two, Stack) from Monday 29th November until Saturday 11th December. Tickets are on sale now from https://sohotheatre.com/shows/string-v-spitta/
As the live comedy world has started to return to some kind of normality I have been thinking a lot about the nature of reviewing. Am I offering a consumer guide? Am I writing an entertaining article that will be enjoyable to read? And I providing a service to the industry? To the public? Am I looking at comedy as entertainment or art?
Liam Williams’s critically acclaimed coming of age comedy Ladhood is set to return for a third series.
Ladhood straddles two timelines as Liam looks back at his noughties adolescence in search of answers to his modern-day millennial angst.
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