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The guests have been announced for this year's Greenwich Comedy Festival, which returns to the National Maritime Museum from September 13th–17th.
The line-up includes Dylan Moran, Alan Davies, Dara O Briain, Sara Pascoe, Adam Hills, Ed Byrne, Joe Lycett, David O’Doherty, Tim Key, Ellie Taylor, James Acaster, Shappi Khorsandi, Doc Brown and many more.
After Getting On and Going Forward Damned feels like the third part in a trilogy of gritty state-of-the-nation workplace comedies starring Jo Brand. But in fact this one, set in a childrens social services office, actually predates Going Forward. A one-off pilot went out on Sky Arts in 2014 but for whatever reason it is C4 that has made this six-part series. And I bet it cost them a lot less than The Great British Bake Off.
Filming has started on a new episode of Jonathan Creek. This latest mystery will mark the 20th anniversary of the crime-cracking series starring Alan Davies.
It’s a fiendishly simple format. Get a bunch of motormouth, attention-craving comics round a table, light the blue touch paper and stand back. It is no surprise that this series, in which the title of each episode is chosen from the stories, is back for a third run.
I don’t know if the QI team knew that Stephen Fry was quitting at the end of the series before they filmed the first episode, but there was one question that seemed to suggest they had an inkling. The programme had a medical theme and at one point Fry asked what part of your body can you live without.
Alan Davies As Yet Untitled is set to return to TV channel Dave for a third series.
Comedy website The British Comedy Guide has reported that the series, in which Davies chats to guests and then comes up with a title for the show at the end of the recording based on their stories, will be filmed at the Hospital Club in London.
Guests have not been announced for the new series but previous guests have included Ross Noble, Jon Ronson, Katherine Ryan, Sara Pascoe, Noel Fielding and Rob Delaney.
Jason Manford and Alan Davies have been announced as two of the main acts at this year’s 10th birthday Latitude Festival, which takes place at Henham Park in Suffolk from July 16 - 19.
The full music and arts line-up is announced tomorrow but some of the comedy names have been revealed today.
The Comedy Support Act has launched its website. The organisation is a benevolent fund to help comics who through serious illness or accident find themselves in financial hardship.
You could say that Lucy Beaumont is having a good year. She recently got engaged to Jon Richardson and she picked up a Foster’s Award Best Newcomer nomination for her full-length Edinburgh Fringe debut, We Can Twerk It Out. Funnily Jon Richardson was sitting next to me when I saw the show back in August. Maybe he was there every day. And the funnier thing is that part of the show is about Beaumont’s hunt for her perfect man, when all along he was sitting three rows back in a tin hut in Scotland.
Update 19/6/14: Interesting update from Paul Provenza overnight. I received a Tweet from Provenza saying "We've resolved our issues" regarding his annoyance with the new Dave series, As Yet Untitled. Here are his joined-up Tweets explaining further: "Had a brilliant Skype with Alan Davies re #Asyetuntitled & Green Room with Paul Provenza. Happy to say we agreed on so much: First, we agreed that we really all should be caring about those still missing girls instead of about any dopey TV shows.
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