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Sunday show hosted by Al Murray moves into BBC Radio 5 live’s Saturday schedule
It was announced today (22 May 2013) that AL MURRAY will return to host the freshly titled, 7 Day Saturday this June on BBC Radio 5
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Due to phenomenal demand RUSSELL HOWARD has added five extra arena dates to his 2014 Wonderbox tour, including shows at London’s O2 and Wembley arenas. Fans can purchase pre-sale Wonderbox tickets at 9am today
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VICTORIA COREN-MITCHELL returns to BBC Radio 4 this spring to present a brand new series of Heresy which sees popular prejudices overthrown and received opinions ruthlessly examined. The new six-part series will
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Thursday, 9th May 2013
Avalon announce the full line-up for their 25th year at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, with the chance to see: limited runs from established and award-winning comics DAVID BADDIEL, JENNY
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RUSSELL HOWARD is set to embark on brand new tour Wonderbox in February 2014, with arena shows across the UK and Ireland and four consecutive nights at London’s Royal Albert Hall. Wonderbox will be RUSSELL’s
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Hot on the heels of his twice extended 2012 nationwide Craig Campbell Live tour, internationally acclaimed stand-up and master storyteller CRAIG CAMPBELL will once again hit the road this autumn with his brand new
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Star of BBC Two’s sitcom Hebburn, co-starring VIC REEVES, and series regular on Celebrity Juice (ITV2), Edinburgh Comedy Award nominated CHRIS RAMSEY is set to embark on a brand new 38-date national tour from 9th
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Try and imagine being dead. It's cold and dark and silent. There's nothing. Nothing at all. You can’t see anything, smell anything, taste anything. Also, you're not there. Can you contemplate the total absence of
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Jason Bent is now set to tour alongside Lee Nelson in a brand new live stand-up show. He hit the headlines last month when he found himself on the pitch warming up alongside Manchester City football players. The
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It was announced today (02 April 2013) that acclaimed comedian DAVE GORMAN will bring a new 6x60 minute series to entertainment channel Dave, Dave Gorman: Modern Life Is Goodish.
Dave Gorman thinks modern life is
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GREG DAVIES is set to extend his critically acclaimed, sell-out tour The Back of my Mum’s Head for the third time with four dates at London’s Southbank Centre, bringing the total number of shows to 75, including
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“stupendously successful topical comedy show”
Sharon Lougher, Metro
"Quite the pan-generational sex symbol and rumpled comedy god these days; a huge TV star”
Alison Graham, Radio Times
Russell Howard’s
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“This is one of the most gag-rich comedies on the box and, as it returns for a new series, the quality of the writing has not waned a jot.”
David Stephenson, Sunday Express
LEE MACK, the British Comedy Award
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“As comic inventions go, Simon Brodkin’s south London council estate geezer Lee Nelson is up with the best.”
Daily Telegraph
“Nelson… with a little Harry Enfield and even a strand or two of Norman Wisdom
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It was announced today (21 February 2013) that BBC Radio 4 have commissioned a pilot from acclaimed double act Peacock & Gamble. The Peacock & Gamble Emergency Broadcast, made by Avalon Television, will be
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GREG DAVIES is set to extend his critically acclaimed, sell-out tour The Back of my Mum’s Head by a further 23 dates, bringing the total number of shows to 71, including two sold-out dates at London’s
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Internationally acclaimed stand-up CRAIG CAMPBELL will be returning to London’s Bloomsbury Theatre for two final shows from his twice extended, first solo national tour - Craig Campbell Live. The tour has seen
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Following two sell-out shows at London’s Bloomsbury Theatre Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee CHRIS RAMSEY has added a third date at the venue on Sunday 28th April due to popular demand.
How did we get here?
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Following a sell-out date at London’s Southbank Centre, CHRIS ADDISON, star of Academy Award nominated In The Loop, BAFTA Award winning The Thick of It (BBC TWO) and regular panelist on Mock The Week (BBC TWO),
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Stand-up comedian, TalkSPORT host and former political advisor MATT FORDE presents:
THE POLITICAL PARTY
With special guests, GEORGE GALLOWAY AND NIGEL FARAGE
Who is MATT FORDE? He’s a former Labour-advisor
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LEE NELSON, star of BBC Three’s breakout hit comedy series Lee Nelson’s Well Good Show, is set to embark on a brand new 31-date national stand-up tour, following the success of two critically acclaimed sell-out
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It was announced today (7th December 2012) that Avalon Management Group has acquired talent agency Artists Rights Group (ARG) from ALL3MEDIA.
ARG, founded in 2001, represents artists including: TREVOR EVE, ROMOLA
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CHRIS ADDISON, star of Academy Award nominated In The Loop, BAFTA Award winning The Thick of It (BBC TWO) and regular panelist on Mock The Week (BBC TWO), has extended his critically acclaimed show; The Time Is Now,
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Following a complete sell-out run at the 2012 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Children’s BAFTA and Chortle Best Newcomer nominee IAIN STIRLING brings his critically-acclaimed, debut stand-up show: Happy to be the
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Following his sold-out autumn tour Feeling Lucky, Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee CHRIS RAMSEY has added extra dates to his second tour extension at London’s Bloomsbury Theatre on 12th January, Sheffield City
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It was announced today (16 November 2012) that multi-award-winning comedians, DAVID WALLIAMS, FRANK SKINNER and MICKY FLANAGAN will work together for the first time on a new 8 x 50 min Saturday night
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PAUL F. TOMPKINS, the US stand-up comic whose podcast The Pod F. Tompkast was ranked #1 by Rolling Stone Magazine, will be making his UK debut with Crying and Driving at London’s Soho Theatre for 11 nights in
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Following a successful start to their first ever national tour WitTank (KIERAN BOYD, MARK COOPER-JONES and NAZ OSMANOGLU), the stars of BBC Three’s talent showcase Live at The Electric, have added two London dates
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“Consistently one of the wittiest, sharpest shows on the box”
The Guardian Guide
“The absurdities of TV land are laid bare with the welcome return of its premier clown”
Mail on Sunday
“A rare and
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Following his sell-out autumn tour, Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee CHRIS RAMSEY will return to London with a date at The Bloomsbury Theatre on 11th January 2013, and extend his nationwide stand-up tour Feeling Lucky
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Following a successful run at the 2012 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Edinburgh Comedy Newcomer Award winner, ROISIN CONATY, returns to the Soho Theatre with her brand new show Lifehunter from 6th- 10th November.
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Britain’s favourite publican, AL MURRAY - THE PUB LANDLORD, returns with a brand new live DVD, available to own from Monday 26th November. Good things come in threes - the Jubilee, the Olympics and now THE PUB
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The second series of Living with Mother reopens the bittersweet window onto the world of middle aged men who still live with their mothers. This four-part comedy show for BBC Radio 4 begins on the 31st October,
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Following a sell-out date at the Hammersmith Apollo, GREG DAVIES, star of BAFTA-winning TV series and hit film The Inbetweeners and new hit BBC Three sitcom Cuckoo, which attracted over a million viewers on its
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Due to overwhelming popular demand further new dates have been added to the already twice-extended nationwide stand-up tour, Lee Nelson Live, bringing the total number of dates to a massive 90, including London’s
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Due to phenomenal demand, US comic ROB DELANEY, who became famous in the USA through the power of Twitter, has added an extra date to his UK run, playing to a further 1028 fans at the O2 Shepherds Bush Empire on
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"We can't recommend The Horne Section highly enough... a gigantic heap of fun”
Ben Walters, Time Out
Following a third consecutive sell-out run at the 2012 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, ALEX HORNE and THE HORNE
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It was announced today (Wednesday 26th September 2012), in the first week of his national tour, that AL MURRAY, THE PUB LANDLORD will extend The Only Way Is Epic, into spring 2013 by a further 54 dates. This
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Like a battering ram to the funny-bone, WitTank (KIERAN BOYD, MARK COOPER-JONES and NAZ OSMANOGLU), stars of BBC Three’s new talent showcase Live at The Electric are heading off on their first national tour
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RICHARD HERRING, will take to the road this autumn to find out all about about man and his manhood, in this reworking of his smash-hit 2002 show, Talking Cock.
It’s an object of shame and pride; it can inspire
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Lee Nelson Live, the twice extended, 88-date sell-out live show from the star of BBC Three’s breakout smash hit comedy series Lee Nelson’s Well Good Show, will be released for the first time on DVD by Universal
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This autumn PEACOCK & GAMBLE will embark on a national tour with their brand new show - Peacock & Gamble Don’t Even Want to Be on Telly Anyway. The tour follows a full run for the pair at the 2012
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TV, DVDs & LIVE STAND-UP SHOWS
TV
RUSSELL HOWARD'S GOOD NEWS
Thursdays at 9pm from 27th September (BBC Three), BBC Three’s most successful entertainment series, returns for a seventh series this
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AL MURRAY returns to host the highly successful 7 Day Sunday, which returns to BBC Radio 5 Live for a brand new fifteen-part series this September. Joined by ANDY ZALTZMAN as well as a weekly special guest, AL will
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GREG DAVIES, star of BAFTA-winning TV series and hit film The Inbetweeners, will see his Edinburgh Comedy Award-nominated, critically acclaimed, triple extended, 109 date sell-out debut solo show: Firing Cheeseballs
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BBC Productions / All 3 Media International
“…incredibly interesting, with enough of the CSI to keep even a philistine engaged.”
The Guardian
FIONA BRUCE and PHILIP MOULD return to BBC One on September 16th
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MURDOCH, THE BANKS, THE ROYALS, CAMERON, REBEKAH BROOKS, AND RASPUTIN TO FEATURE IN NEW REVOLUTIONARY COMEDY RICHARD HERRING IS DEVELOPING FOR BBC TV
It was announced today (20 August 2012) that RICHARD HERRING is
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Energetic comedian and host of BBC Three’s brand new hit late-night comedy series, Live at the Electric and co-host of Britain Unzipped (BBC Three), RUSSELL KANE will see his Edinburgh Comedy Award and Barry Award
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It was announced today (15 August 2012) that acclaimed character comedian SIMON BRODKIN (Lee Nelson’s Well Good Show, BBC Three), has been commissioned for a new series by Controller of BBC Three ZAI BENNETT and
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“Stupendously successful topical comedy show”
Sharon Lougher, Metro
“Quite the pan-generational sex symbol and rumpled comedy god these days; a huge TV star”
Alison Graham, Radio Times
Series two of
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It was announced today (09 August 2012) that this Edinburgh Festival Fringe will see New York based Edinburgh Comedy Award nominees KRISTEN SCHAAL (Flight of the Conchords, 30 Rock, The Daily Show) and KURT
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“stupendously successful topical comedy show”
Sharon Lougher, Metro
“Quite the pan-generational sex symbol and rumpled comedy god these days; a huge TV star”
Alison Graham, Radio Times
Russell
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On your marks, get set and go get yourself tickets to the ultimate Olympic themed pub quiz! For three nights only, THE GUV will host a mental pintathlonin the gold medal standard of pub quizzes - all in aid of
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Britain’s favourite pub philosopher, AL MURRAY - THE PUB LANDLORD, will be polishing his brass neck banter in two weeks of special Edinburgh previews, ahead of his brand new 2012 stand-up tour The Only Way is
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Last year’s Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee, CHRIS RAMSEY, returns to the Festival with his new stand-up show, Feeling Lucky, following two consecutive sell-out Edinburgh shows and a sell-out UK tour. How did we
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Join Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee CARL DONNELLY Mock the Week (BBC Two), Russell Howard’s Good News (BBC Three), Dave’s One Night Stand (Dave) and Stand Up For The Week (Channel 4) as he reads and discusses
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Like a battering ram to the funny-bone, WitTank (KIERAN BOYD, MARK COOPER-JONES and NAZ OSMANOGLU), stars of BBC Three’s new talent showcase Live at The Electric rocket back to the Fringe with a lavish parade of
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BBC Radio 1 DJ and award-winning stand-up comedian TOM DEACON, as seen on The Rob Brydon Show (BBC Two) and Dave’s One Night Stand (DAVE), returns to Edinburgh Festival with brand new show: Deaconator. TOM talks
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The past year has seen RUSSELL become one of comedy’s hottest acts both live and on TV, and he returns to the Fringe this summer with his brand new show Posturing Delivery. The show sees RUSSELL ask: ‘What if
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Edinburgh Comedy Newcomer Award winner 2010 as seen on Russell Howard’s Good News (BBC Three) and Have I Got News For You (BBC One), ROISIN CONATY returns to Edinburgh with her brand new solo show: Lifehunter.
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RICHARD HERRING, “The King of Edinburgh” (The List), returns to the Fringe in his Silver Jubilee year (he first performed here in 1987) to find out all about men and their spam javelins, in this reworking of his
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“Everybody’s favourite comedy nice boys, RAY PEACOCK (crumbs in his beard, idiot) and ED GAMBLE (big muscles, wrote this bit), return with another jam-packed hour of total idiocy and very handsomeness live on
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You can take the boy out of Glastonbury… PAUL McCAFFREY returns to Edinburgh with his brand new solo show Pill ‘n’ Thrills and Bellylaughs. Seeking to emulate bands reforming for classic album tours,
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NAZ OSMANOGLU: Turkish Prince. Stand-up comic. Tragically exiled. With appearances on BBC Three’s Live at The Electric and Russell Howard’s Good News, the hairy one from sketch trio WITTANK returns with
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Either, a “shameless sycophantic sell-out with a jelly spine and a mush mind”, according to one of his listeners, or a “first-class comic”, according to The Guardian. Come and help settle the debate that is
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Edinburgh Comedy Award winner RUSSELL KANE hosts a live special of the hit new BBC Three late-night comedy series Live At The Electric. The show features a different line-up of stand-up, sketch and musical comedy
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DAN ANTOPOLSKI (Triple Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee), TOM CRAINE (Times Top 5 Edinburgh Show, 2010) and NAT LUURTSEMA (Chortle Award nominee), stars of Live At The Electric (BBC Three) and Sketchorama (BBC Radio
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“If at first you don’t succeed; try, try again!” But if you still don’t succeed, it might not be a bad idea to sit down and have a good think about what it is you’re trying to do. JARLATH REGAN has
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IAIN STIRLING, BAFTA and Chortle Best Newcomer nominee, brings his hotly anticipated, debut stand-up show: Happy to be the Clown? to Edinburgh Festival this year. Ever wondered why your life ended up the way it
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Gathering together the UK’s finest musicians and throwing them on stage with the world’s most exciting comics, ALEX HORNE has created something truly unique: THE HORNE SECTION. This is potent comedy, a heady
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Award-winning comedian and star of BBC Radio 4's hit space comedy It Is Rocket Science!, HELEN KEEN returns to Edinburgh with a tale of technology, heartbreak and sexxxy robots. A fusion of stand-up, science fiction
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GRÁINNE MAGUIRE brings her brand new solo show Where Are All the Fun Places and Are Lots of People There Having Better Fun? to the Edinburgh Festival this year. Do you always worry that you’re missing out on all
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Join GARETH RICHARDS, Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer nominee, for his brand new show Never been to Disneyland. GARETH’s parents couldn’t afford to take the whole family to Disneyland, so they went without
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Debut comedy show from BBC Radio 4 character comic FRAN MOULDS. Significant Human Error is a show about mistakes and change, told through six hilarious and original characters.
Samantha Powell - welcoming you to a
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The Comedy Zone, the Fringe’s longest running and most prestigious stand-up showcase, is back for its 22nd consecutive year with four of the freshest acts on the circuit.
Recognised as the place to catch the
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ROB DELANEY, who became famous in the USA through the power of Twitter, has sold out his UK debut show at Soho Theatre, making him the fastest selling US performer in the venue’s history. Having built up nearly
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It was announced today (13 July 2012) that DAVID WALLIAMS, FRANK SKINNER and GREG DAVIES will work together on a new non-tx pilot for BBC One. I Love My Country is a peak-time comedy entertainment show, which will
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The US and UK hit satirical comedy podcast The Bugle, hosted by JOHN OLIVER (The Daily Show with Jon Stewart) and ANDY ZALTZMAN (7 Day Sunday on BBC Radio 5 Live) will celebrate its monumental 200th episode this
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Hot on the heels of hosting BBC Three’s brand new hit late-night comedy series, Live at the Electric and co-presenting Britain Unzipped (BBC Three), the multi-award-winning comedian RUSSELL KANE announces a brand
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How did we get here? Elaborately laid plan, or just pure fluke? Who knows… do you feel lucky? Perhaps you should. This autumn Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee, CHRIS RAMSEY brings his hugely anticipated new
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Dropping straight into the busiest weeks of the sporting calendar, You Cannot Be Serious! is a peak-time topical entertainment show which will mix clips, sketches and impressions. Skewering all the funniest,
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Live At The Electric is a new late-night comedy show on BBC Three from the producers of Russell Howard’s Good News, Not Going Out (BBC ONE) and Harry Hill’s TV Burp (ITV1). The series will be hosted by the
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With 100 days to go until the festival, Avalon announces their Edinburgh 2012 line-up with a host of award-winning comics, including three Edinburgh Comedy Award winners and four Edinburgh Comedy Award nominees, for
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Series five of LEE MACK’S multi-award-winning sitcom Not Going Out, currently broadcasting on Friday nights on BBC ONE, is available on DVD from Monday 21st May courtesy of Universal Pictures (UK). The DVD
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Internationally acclaimed stand-up CRAIG CAMPBELL has extended, for a second time, his first solo national tour Craig Campbell Live by a further 22 dates bringing the total number of shows to a massive 116. The
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"This is a really charming and at times poignant one woman show." Fringe Report
"Clear, pure storytelling... I enjoyed every moment." Snipe
HELEN O’BRIEN’s debut solo one-woman show Bronagh’s Big Weekend
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“stupendously successful topical comedy show”
Metro
“Good News is a treat; a sillier version of Have I Got News for You”
Radio Times
RUSSELL HOWARD’S GOOD NEWS, BBC Three’s most successful
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“Lee Mack's quality sitcom… It's been one of the few UK comedies of recent years that packs jokes like the American ones do...Do give it a go."
Boyd Hilton, Heat
LEE MACK’s multi award-winning primetime
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This autumn GREG DAVIES, star of BAFTA-winning TV series and hit film The Inbetweeners, is to embark on a brand new national stand-up tour - The Back of My Mum’s Head. Beginning 3rd October, the 47-date tour will
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“This was a lovely series… a joy from the start.”
Miranda Sawyer, The Observer
We welcome back eternal optimist Harvey Easter (MARK BENTON, Silent Witness, BBC One, Early Doors, BBC Two) and his family for
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Due to overwhelming popular demand LEE NELSON, star of BBC Three’s breakout smash hit comedy series Lee Nelson’s Well Good Show, is extending his nationwide stand-up tour for a second time by a further 27 shows,
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JENNY ECLAIR is back on the road with a brand new stand-up tour Eclairious, following the success of her sell-out 2010 tour, Old Dog, New Tricks, which was extended due to popular demand. The 38 date tour starts on
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ZALTZMAN comes to venues nationwide following storming runs at the 2011 Edinburgh Fringe and London’s Soho Theatre with his hit one-man show, Armchair Revolutionary. In a joke-packed show encompassing economic
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BRAND NEW TOUR ANNOUNCED FOR 2012
Broken Britain may be staring into the bottom of an empty pint glass, but don’t lose hope - AL MURRAY, THE PUB LANDLORD, is back to fill it up again with a brand new show of
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RUSSELL HOWARD today (Thursday 23rd February) announces a run of very special live shows in aid of charity next month.
Kicking off the run at the Bath Komedia on the 12th March before taking to the stages at
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From 5th February, Chortle Award Winning comedian ALEX HORNE will perform his new show Seven Years in a Bathroom - the ultimate stat-based fun-packed thought-provoking experimental-and-sometimes-stupid hour-long
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It was announced today (9th February 2012) that JAMIE ISAACS (The Choir, BBC Two, Garrow’s Law, BBC One, World's Strictest Parents, BBC Three and Brat Camp, Channel 4) will join Avalon Television.
ISAACS will
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It was announced today (9th February 2012) that ALISTAIR MCGOWAN will host a new show for ITV1. You Cannot Be Serious! is a topical sports entertainment series which will mix clips, sketches and impressions.
You
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Following critical success at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe, Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer Winner 2010 ROISIN CONATY (Have I Got News For You, BBC One and Russell Howard’s Good News, BBC Three)
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Satirical comedy podcast The Bugle, hosted by JOHN OLIVER (The Daily Show with Jon Stewart) and ANDY ZALTZMAN (7 Day Sunday on BBC Radio 5Live) has found a new home, following its departure from The Times in January
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Following a hugely successful Edinburgh Festival Fringe and a sell-out UK tour it is announced today (17th January 2012) that DAVE GORMAN will extend his stand-up tour, Dave Gorman’s Powerpoint Presentation, by a
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★★★★ Chortle ★★★★ The Telegraph ★★★★ Evening Standard ★★★★ Arts Desk
★★★★★ Broadway Baby ★★★★★ New Current ★★★★Fringe Guru
★★★★ Informed
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AL MURRAY returns to host the highly successful 7 Day Sunday, which returns to BBC Radio 5 Live for a brand new fifteen-part series this January. Joined by regular contributors including ANDY ZALTZMAN and REBECCA
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Lee Mack: Going Out - the smash hit sell-out stand-up show from BAFTA-winning comedian and writer and star of multi-award winning primetime sitcom Not Going Out (BBC ONE), comes to television for the first time on
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London, 8th December 2011
British comedy short TOOTY’S WEDDING has been accepted into the 31st Sundance Film Festival, after a successful run on the UK and US festival circuit. There were over 3,592 short film
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This New Year That Sunday Night Show returns to ITV1 for a third series. Each week, host ADRIAN CHILES will once again be joined by three guests for an entertaining look at the past seven days.
The previous two
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Three Men Go To New England is the seventh boat-based outing for RORY McGRATH, GRIFF RHYS-JONES and DARA O’BRIAIN - and this instalment sees the Three Men return for one of their toughest nautical challenges to
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VICTORIA COREN returns to BBC Radio 4 to present the eighth series of the popular Heresy. The new six-part series will be broadcast from November 30th 2011.
Each week VICTORIA will be joined by a panel drawn from
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It was announced today (17 November 2011) that Avalon Television will expand its current operations in Scotland in a bid to develop a new creative hub north of the border. The move will see the appointment of a new
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Due to overwhelming popular demand LEE NELSON, star of BBC Three’s breakout smash hit comedy series Lee Nelson’s Well Good Show, is set to extend his nationwide stand-up tour, taking the total number of dates to
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Ho! Ho! Ho! In the words of SLADE, “It’s Christmaaaaaaaaaas”, and to see punters through to the festive season AL MURRAY, THE PUB LANDLORD has not one, but two Christmas themed shows this December.
AL
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HARRY HILL puts his ‘best bits’ on display in his brand new DVD Harry Hill’s TV Burp, The Best Bits, featuring the funniest moments, classic clips and an array of exclusive extras from the four-time BAFTA
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So asked the insane, Welsh, poet-philosopher, Howard Jones in 1983, but in the intervening 28 years no one has dared to answer his questions? Until now.
Following critical success at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe,
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It was announced today (24th October 2011) that Frank Skinner and Friends - a night of comedy, cabaret and music all on one bill in London’s West End and brought to you by multi-award winning comedian FRANK
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It was announced today (20th October, 2011) that twenty of the best TV Burp episodes will be shown, for the first time on a non-terrestrial channel. The show is set to air on kids TV channel Cartoon Network in the
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COMEDY DRAMA WRITTEN BY FRANK SKINNER
“. . . funny. A lesson in relationship ping-pong”
Miranda Sawyer, The Observer
“The writing. . . is ferociously good”
★★★★ Daily Mail **
“Excellent
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Frank Skinner on George Formby is a one-off documentary for BBC Four in which award winning comic FRANK SKINNER explores the life and legacy of George Formby - Britain’s first megastar - to uncover the secret of
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“It’s relaxed, refreshing and, because it’s Frank Skinner, when it’s funny it’s very funny.”
Jack Seale, Radio Times
“On impressive form, both in the speed of his gag-reflex - when Hart revealed that
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Every year in the UK an estimated 300,000 people die without leaving a will and if the money isn’t claimed it goes to the government. In Heir Hunters probate research firms track down the unwitting beneficiaries
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RUSSELL HOWARD’S GOOD NEWS, BBC Three’s most successful entertainment series and regularly one of the most watched shows on iPlayer from the channel, returns for a fifth series on 27th October, 10.30pm.
Since
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This autumn GREG DAVIES, star of BAFTA-winning TV series and new hit film The Inbetweeners, releases his debut stand-up DVD of Edinburgh Comedy Award-nominated, critically acclaimed, triple extended, 109 date
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Following a hugely successful, critically acclaimed return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe after eight years away - which saw every ticket sold (14,000) and extra sell-out dates added on weekends - DAVE GORMAN
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Flame Television has been commissioned to make new versions of BBC One’s hit daytime show Heir Hunters for BBC Two primetime. The shows will be presented and voiced by LISA FAULKNER who also does the voiceover for
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★★★★★ The Times ★★★★★ Daily Telegraph ★★★★★ The Sunday Times
★★★★★ Mirror Online ★★★★★ Three Weeks ★★★★★ Fest ★★★★★Time Out Live
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CHRIS ADDISON, the star of Academy Award nominated In The Loop, BAFTA Award winning The Thick of It (BBC TWO), regular panellist on Mock The Week (BBC TWO), host of Show and Tell (E4) makes his critically acclaimed
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The four-time BAFTA winning Harry Hill’s TV Burp is back with a brand new series of top-notch telly send-ups this autumn. HARRY will rummage through our favourite TV to offer his acclaimed comic spin on the
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LEE NELSON’S WELL GOOD SHOW
A breakout hit for BBC Three, winning consolidated viewing figures of over 2 million per episode, reaching as high as number two in the BBC iPlayer chart for most-watched show
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Right Here, Right Now, the sell-out nationwide triple extended arena tour, which saw RUSSELL HOWARD perform to over 240,000 fans across the country, including three dates at London’s O2 arena, is released for the
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Don’t Start invites us into the relationship of Neil (FRANK SKINNER) and Kim (KATHERINE PARKINSON, The IT Crowd) as we join them each week for a different argument. From award-winning radio producer POLLY THOMAS
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New series starts 25th September at 10.15pm on ITV1.
ADRIAN CHILES returns to present a second series of That Sunday Night Show on ITV1 this month.
That Sunday Night Show is a weekly entertaining round-up of the
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MISSING MILLIONS
£15 billion is lying unclaimed in Britain’s bank vaults and in Missing Millions MELANIE SYKES and PAUL HEINEY reunite people with their forgotten fortunes. From pensions and life insurance, to
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“Manscaping, confirms his status as one of the most stimulating comedians around”
Dominic Maxwell, The Times
"In a terrific show mainly about his love life, Russell Kane‘s routines about The X Factor and
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GRUMPY GUIDE TO DRIVING
Grumpy Guide to Driving is a brand new hour-long special for BBC TWO in which TV’s tetchiest talking heads reunite for their favourite pastime: criticising the latest modern irritations
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CHRIS ADDISON takes the helm of a brand new eight part comedy series for E4, which will celebrate the art of story telling and stand-up, while introducing some of the most exciting faces from a new generation of
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“Mainstream success beckons. . . it’s ‘qualitee’”
Grazia
“As comic inventions go, Simon Brodkin’s south London council estate geezer Lee Nelson
is up with the best.”
Simon Horsford, The Daily
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From 70s retro dishes to diets, takeaways and ready meals, TV’s tetchiest celebrities unleash their fury in The Grumpy Guide to Food.
Everyone seems obsessed about what they’re eating - whether they are
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Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Award and Barry Award winner RUSSELL KANE will be scouring the country to find the cream of the comedy crop and sending them to seaside towns around Britain to entertain and celebrate the
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“The most consistently funny correspondent on “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.”
The New York Times
Join Emmy Award winning JOHN OLIVER, the resident British roving correspondent on the internationally
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Radio 1 DJ TOM DEACON, whose stand up has featured on The Rob Brydon Show for BBC Two, Dave’s One Night Stand for channel Dave and Edinburgh and Beyond for Comedy Central returns to Edinburgh with a brand new
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Edinburgh Comedy Award Nominee STEVE HALL returns to the Fringe with Steve Hall’s Very Still Life. It’s a festival that has treated him well: he was part of five critically acclaimed shows, four with WE ARE
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Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Award Winner 2010 RUSSELL KANE returns to the Fringe with his brand new show Manscaping. He will mercilessly explore the ridiculous state of masculinity in the modern world. He shaves
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Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer Winner 2010 ROISIN CONATY Russell Howard’s Good News (BBC Three), Victoria Wood’s Angina Monologues (Sky 1) and Dave’s One Night Stand (Dave) returns to
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This summer, ROB DEERING (Comedy Rocks with Jason Manford (ITV1), Sing If You Can (ITV1) and Celebrity Total Wipeout (BBC One)) returns to the festival with his first one-man show since 2008. The Rob Deering
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“What is l-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uhve anyway?
Does anybody love anybody anyway?”
So asked the insane, Welsh, poet-philosopher, Howard Jones in 1983, but in the intervening 28 years no one has dared to answer his
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Oh, here comes trouble. RAY PEACOCK and ED GAMBLE are bringing their Chortle Award Nominated Peacock & Gamble Podcast Live to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for just four live shows - it’s like listening to
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This year RAY PEACOCK and ED GAMBLE make their long anticipated Fringe debut as a double act. After building a large and dedicated fan base with Chortle Award Nominated Peacock & Gamble Podcast and BBC
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Winner of the Amused Moose Laugh-Off (2009) competition and star of acclaimed sketch group WitTank, NAZ OSMANOGLU heads to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with his debut solo show, 1000% Awesome.
NAZ is 1000%
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MATT FORDE brings his first solo show to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with Dishonorable Member - a light hearted mixture of silly stories and political opinion.
A former political adviser for the Labour Party
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KRISTEN SCHAAL, (HBO’s Flight of the Conchords and FOX’s Bob’s Burgers) and KURT BRAUNOHLER (Best Male Comedian Excellence in Comedy NY award) bring their award-winning variety show Hot Tub with Kurt and
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This summer, JIMMY McGHIE Russell Howard's Good News, (BBC Three) returns to the festival after two critically acclaimed years with more thoughtful, character-rich, anecdotal stand-up in his new solo show,
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The Fringe’s longest running and most prestigious stand-up showcase is back for its 21st consecutive year with four of the freshest talents on the circuit.
Recognised as the place to catch the best new
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Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer nominee 2010, writer of 2010’s Dave’s 10th Funniest Joke of the Fringe Award and former co-host of this year’s Sony Gold Award winning Frank Skinner’s
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EMILY WATSON HOWES The Umbrella Birds, The Ladies (BBC Radio 4) returns to Edinburgh with her debut solo show Seminar, a comedy on the edge of sanity, part satire of the stress management industry and part serenade
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This summer, EMILY WATSON HOWES (The Umbrella Birds, BBC Radio 4’s The Ladies) brings her latest comedy play The Baby Diary to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. EMILY is known for being a talented writer, theatre
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DAVE GORMAN returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe after eight years with his brand new live show, Dave Gorman’s Powerpoint Presentation. This time he is part of a double act. . . with a projector screen. And
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JIGSAW
A smart, stupid sketch show from three of the Fringe’s most inventive comedians.
DAN ANTOPOLSKI (Triple Perrier Award Nominee, BBC New Comedy Award Winner and Dave’s Funniest Joke of the Fringe Award
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Following the sell out success of his 2010 debut solo show Aggrophobic award-winning comedian CHRIS RAMSEY returns to The Edinburgh Festival Fringe with his brand new stand up show - Offermation. Since his first
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Following the unexpected success of last year’s shambles, ALEX HORNE presents the second Taskmaster Showdown at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
In the summer of 2009 ALEX appointed himself the
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The ultimate stat-based fun-packed thought-provoking experimental-and-sometimes-stupid hour-long comedy show. ALEX HORNE presents Seven Years in a Bathroom at the 2011 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
ALEX HORNE has
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It’s back! AL MURRAY brings his critically acclaimed 2010 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Compete for the Meat, back to the punters with not one, but two new quiz shows. . . only this year there’s a festive
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AHIR SHAH brings his debut solo stand-up show, Astrology, to this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival. As a performer AHIR has appeared in Channel 4‘s Campus and on BBC Two’s Newsnight and as a writer acted as a
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It was announced today (Friday 1st July) that BBC ONE ratings hit Not Going Out - the Royal Television Society and Rose D’Or winning sitcom written by BAFTA Award-winning comedian LEE MACK - has been sold to
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“Mainstream success beckons… it’s ‘qualitee’”
Grazia
“As comic inventions go, Simon Brodkin’s south London council estate geezer Lee Nelson is up with the best.”
Simon Horsford, The Daily
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JOE WILKINSON, star of BBC Three hit comedy Him and Her, is set to embark on brand new stand-up tour; My Mum’s Called Stella and My Dad’s Called Brian. Debuting at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe in
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Internationally acclaimed stand-up CRAIG CAMPBELL has extended his first solo national tour Craig Campbell Live by 40 further dates bringing the total number of shows to 94. CRAIG will now perform to audiences in
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An Englishman, an Irishman and a Welshman are taking part in a Gondola race…RORY McGRATH, DARA O’BRIAIN and GRIFF RHYS-JONES have reunited once again for BBC TWO where they will be heading abroad in Three Men go
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Avalon is heading to Edinburgh 2011 with a host of award-winning comics, including two Foster’s Comedy Award winners and six Foster’s / Perrier Comedy Award Nominees, for the 23rd Festival Fringe this
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It was announced today (Wednesday 11th May 2011) that DAVE GORMAN will tour a brand new live show, Dave Gorman’s Powerpoint Presentation from September 2011. This time he is part of a double act…. with a
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DANNY COHEN, Controller of BBC One and CHERYL TAYLOR, BBC Controller of Comedy Commissioning have commissioned a further two series of the British Comedy Award nominated, RTS and Rose D’Or winning sitcom, Not
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It was announced today (3rd May, 2011) that RUSSELL HOWARD’S sell-out nationwide arena tour Right Here, Right Now has been extended by a further six dates in Cardiff, Birmingham, Manchester, Aberdeen, Glasgow and
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Meet Harvey Easter, a forty-something, sweet-natured, pathological optimist who works as an Assistant Sales Manager at an ailing piano shop, forever battling against a cruel world.
Harvey (MARK BENTON Silent
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New for Dave, multi-award winning, AL MURRAY - THE PUB LANDORD is back with a brand new eight part TV quiz show Al Murray’s Compete for the Meat. Filmed in front of a live studio audience, the series will see The
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It was announced today (5th April 2011) that CHRIS ADDISON, star of BAFTA-winning comedy The Thick Of It, Oscar nominated feature film In The Loop and Mock the Week regular (BBC TWO), is set to embark on a brand new
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The Grumpy Guide To... returns to BBC2 on Sunday 27th March with a fresh gaggle of Grumpies venting their spleen on the most unpleasant yet inescapable aspect of daily life: work. Whether it’s looking for work,
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Living with Mother is a brand new four-part comedy series for Radio 4 which opens a bittersweet window onto the world of men, over 30, who still live with their mothers. Written by ALEXANDER KIRK and performed by a
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Edinburgh Comedy Award winner and Let’s Dance for Comic Relief finalist RUSSELL KANE has announced a brand new tour for 2011. Manscaping will see the Comedy Rocks regular and ITV2 I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of
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LEE NELSON, star of BBC Three’s breakout hit comedy series Lee Nelson’s Well Good Show, is set to embark on a 42-date national stand-up tour following the success of his critically acclaimed sell-out UK debut
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Fresh from performing to over 160,000 fans on his sell-out UK arena tour, Right Here, Right Now, RUSSELL HOWARD returns to BBC Three for a brand-new series of Russell Howard's Good News this March.
Russell Howard's
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London, 28 February 2011 - Dave, the home of witty banter, has commissioned Avalon Television to bring Al Murray’s sell-out Edinburgh Festival Show (2010), Al Murray’s Compete for the Meat, to the award-winning
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It was announced today (2 February 2011) that The Lakes On A Plate - the brand new factual entertainment series from Liberty Bell, the award winning producers of Channel 4 ratings hit Willie’s Wonky Chocolate
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Multi-award-winning stand-up comedian FRANK SKINNER returns for a second series of the critically acclaimed topical comedy show, Frank Skinner’s Opinionated. Immediately recommissioned by the BBC for two further
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It was announced today (Wednesday 19th January) that, due to exceptional public demand, RUSSELL HOWARD will extend his 2011 arena tour, Right Here, Right Now further by performing two extra dates at London’s
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Following the success of his 2010 tour, AL MURRAY, THE PUB LANDLORD is to extend Barrel of Fun into spring 2011. From 17th April Barrel of Fun Extra: Classic Hits and New Bits will see THE GUV once again turn his
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Series four of LEE MACK’S multi-award-winning Not Going Out - the BBC ONE sitcom which made a hugely anticipated return this January with a record audience of 4.8 million viewers, 1.5million above the last series
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It was announced today (10 January 2011) that multi-award winning BBC One sitcom Not Going Out has been bought by Finland’s TV4 Komedia and will be broadcast in a primetime slot by the recently launched channel.
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It was announced today (5th January 2011) that Flame TV’s BBC ONE ratings winner Heir Hunters has been sold to Foxtel’s History Channel in Australia. The deal, brokered by Avalon Distribution, hotly follows the
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Internationally acclaimed stand-up CRAIG CAMPBELL - currently supporting FRANKIE BOYLE on his record breaking 120-date tour and recently seen on Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow (BBC One) and Russell Howard’s
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★★★★★ Mail on Sunday ★★★★★ The Independent ★★★★★ Sunday Telegraph
★★★★★ Chortle ★★★★★ Time Out Live ★★★★★ British Comedy Guide ★★★★★ The Arts
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STEVE WILLIAMS, core writer and performer on BBC Three’s most successful studio entertainment show Russell Howard’s Good News (the most requested BBC Three show on iPlayer whilst on air) - embark’s on his
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RUSSELL HOWARD’s critically-acclaimed stand up show Dingledodies is to be shown on the BBC for the first time.
Recorded during the Good News star’s twice extended 2009 tour, including three gigs at London’s
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New for Sunday evenings on ITV1 - That Sunday Night Show. With thousands of newspapers, magazines, websites, blogs and tweets, this brand new entertainment series will see ADRIAN CHILES, joined by three top-draw
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This New Year, LEE MACK’S multi-award-winning sitcom Not Going Out returns to BBC ONE for its much-anticipated fourth series. Back with a six-part primetime run, the Rose D’Or and Royal Television Award winning
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It was announced today (7th December 2010) that Russell Howard’s Good News, BBC Three’s most successful entertainment show, will return twice in 2011 with Series 4 in the Spring and Series 5 following in the
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Jesus Christ - Son of God! Saviour of mankind! Superstar! RICHARD HERRING - Son of Keith, a retired headmaster! Once saved a spider that had become trapped in his bath, only crushing three of its legs in the
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NEW DATES FROM 08 JANUARY TO 18 JUNE 2011
Whilst continuing to amuse the nation in the I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here! jungle - the old dog is clearly toughening up; fearlessly taking on bushtucker trials,
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DAVID BADDIEL is to make his directorial debut with a film for Sky 1. The Norris McWhirter Chronicles, written and directed by DAVID BADDIEL, sees appearances from ALISTAIR MCGOWAN, LEE MACK, JOHN THOMSON (The Fast
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RORY McGRATH, DARA O’BRIAIN and GRIFF RHYS-JONES have reunited and will return to BBC TWO this Christmas on their fifth journey together, Three Men Go To Scotland. Having previously recreated the famous journey
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“A seriously talented young lady.”
Time Out
“A fast-paced, refreshing and exciting talent with an engaging and original world view.”
Stephen Armstrong, The Sunday Times
“Savvy and sassy, Conaty is
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In a brand new series for BBC FOUR, Al Murray’s German Adventure sees the award winning comic embark on a journey to discover the real Germany. In a breathtaking odyssey through one of the country’s coldest
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It was announced today (Thursday 21st October) that, due to exceptional public demand, RUSSELL HOWARD will extend his spring 2011 arena tour, Right Here, Right Now. Having already sold-out at London’s O2 Arena
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All hail to the ale! as Britain’s favourite publican returns with a brand new live DVD, available to own from 22nd November. Filled to the brim with the ultimate in bar-based logic, Barrel of Fun Live sees THE
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At least 750,000 children per year witness domestic violence at home. ALESHA DIXON witnessed her mother suffer domestic violence between the ages of eight and ten. She has never spoken about the experience until
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“Mainstream success beckons… it’s ‘qualitee’”
Grazia
“As comic inventions go, Simon Brodkin’s south London council estate geezer Lee Nelson is up with the best.”
Simon Horsford, The Daily
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Fresh from starring in BBC Three’s breakout hit comedy series Lee Nelson’s Well Good Show, and his critically acclaimed sell-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe this summer, LEE NELSON is to embark on a 65-date
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DAVE GORMAN - acclaimed storyteller, intrepid comedian and writer and star of BBC TWO’s Genius - brings his brand new live show to DVD on 18th October 2010. Recorded at the prestigious Bloomsbury Theatre during
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Series one of Russell Howard’s Good News, BBC Three’s most successful studio entertainment show - pulling in over 3 millions viewers per week and becoming the most requested BBC Three show on iPlayer whilst on
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BAFTA-winning stand-up LEE MACK, writer and star of BBC ONE’S multi-award winning primetime Friday night sitcom Not Going Out, and resident team captain on Would I Lie to You?, brings his critically-acclaimed
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Multi BAFTA-winning comedian HARRY HILL will release his first ever album of comedy songs, Funny Times, on Island Records on 22nd November.
Harking back to the great tradition of albums by comedy icons including
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Harry Hill’s TV Burp Gold 3 is a brand-new DVD packed full of the best bits from the multi BAFTA-winning TV Burp. Available to own from 1st November 2010, the disc features classic clips from the Burp archives,
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RUSSELL HOWARD is back for a third series of Russell Howard’s Good News on BBC Three this autumn. The previous series was the channel’s most successful entertainment show pulling in over 3 million viewers a week
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This autumn Britain’s favourite publican, AL MURRAY - THE PUB LANDLORD, best-selling author of 'The Pub Landlord’s Book of British Common Sense' and 'Think Yourself British by Al Murray, The Pub Landlord'
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ROB DEERING and his guitar - the finest double act working in Britain today - combine razor-sharp stand-up with incredible flights of musicianship to create The Rob Deering Experience. ROB and his guitar hit the
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★★★★★ Mail on Sunday ★★★★★ The Independent ★★★★★ Sunday Telegraph
★★★★★ Chortle ★★★★★ Time Out Live ★★★★★ British Comedy Guide ★★★★★ The Arts
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The four-time BAFTA winning Harry Hill’s TV Burp is back with a brand new series this autumn. HARRY will be back to business as usual, skewering all the funniest, quirkiest, and downright silliest clips from the
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Brand new daytime series The Lakes on a Plate will transmit on Channel 4 Daytime from Monday 13th September. The series, made by LIBERTY BELL, showcases a brand new television culinary talent PETER SIDWELL, who
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Who’s the comic with an ear for dialogue and a bod for sin? Damn right it’s triple Perrier Award nominee, Dave Award for Funniest Joke of the Fringe 2009 winner, and veteran Fringe sell-out DAN ANTOPOLSKI who
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Proving that there’s life in the old dog, off JENNY ECLAIR goes again with a brand new stand-up show. Having dug up some fresh new comedy bones, the Perrier Award winner and self-appointed Grumpy Head Girl is
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Series one to three of Not Going Out, the Royal Television Society and Golden Rose award-winning BBC sitcom, written by and starring LEE MACK, are to be released in a special edition box set. Packed full of the
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The acclaimed third series of Not Going Out, the Royal Television Society and Golden Rose award-winning BBC ONE sitcom written by and starring LEE MACK, is to be released on DVD by Universal Pictures Playback.
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Grumpy Guide to Schooldays is a brand new, one hour special from the makers of Grumpy Old Men and Grumpy Old Women in which our class of Nineteen Sixty Irate cast their curmudgeonly minds back to the-far-from-best
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★★★★★ The Times ★★★★★ Daily Telegraph ★★★★★ The Sunday Times
★★★★★ Mirror Online ★★★★★ Three Weeks ★★★★★ Fest ★★★★★Time Out Live
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ISY SUTTIE, the acclaimed stand-up and British Comedy Awards ‘Best Female Newcomer’ nominee - best known as Peep Show’s Dobby and as star of BBC TWO’s brand new sitcom Whites - is to embark on her first
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Direct from his Edinburgh Fringe run this summer, sharp-witted and down to earth stand-up comic ALUN COCHRANE (as seen on BBC ONE’s Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow, Channel 4’s 8 Out of 10 Cats and soon to
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The last year has seen CHRIS RAMSEY, star of last year’s Comedy Zone, support RUSSELL KANE and LEE MACK on tour, appear on Russell Howard’s Good News and sign-up to support AL MURRAY - THE PUB LANDLORD on his
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“A seriously talented young lady.”
Time Out
Earlier this year, ROISIN CONATY received an invite to give a talk to new graduates at her old convent school. After tiring herself with a dance of validation, she
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If u is readin this then u is an idiot coz u dont have to!
If u is still reading this my name is Lee Nelson and Im a massive legend. I live in London and I done a TV show on BBC called Lee Nelson’s Well Good
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CHRIS ADDISON, star of BBC TWO’s BAFTA winning comedy The Thick Of It and Oscar nominated film In The Loop, returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for the first time since 2005’s Perrier Award nominated
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ALEX HORNE, author, award-winning comedian, and co-star and co-creator (alongside TIM KEY and MARK WATSON) of BBC Four’s comedy quiz show We Need Answers, has taken a completely different journey for a brand new
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This summer sees Series 2 and 3 of popular observational documentary series Heir Hunters return for the second time to BBC ONE for an eight week run from 12th July. The show follows the work of a number of
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This summer sees Chortle Best Newcomer 2008 nominee NAT LUURTSEMA make her Edinburgh Festival Fringe solo show debut with In My Head I’m A Hero, a stand-up comedy show about yearning for crisis and being careful
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Following the critical success of his 2009 solo debut, The Northern Meeting, JIMMY McGHIE returns to the Festival with his second full-hour of confessional, character-filled stand-up. This year he explores his lack
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The Fringe’s longest running stand-up showcase is back for its 20th year with four of the freshest talents on the circuit.
Recognised as the place to catch the best new stand-ups on the Fringe, The Comedy Zone
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Hold on to your cumpkins! One-off performance of the Sony Award nominated comedy podcast starring RICHARD HERRING. An hour of brand new stand up and sketches about the first two weeks of the Edinburgh Fringe,
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GARETH RICHARDS, regular on Frank Skinner’s Absolute Radio Show and star of 2009’s Comedy Zone, brings his debut solo show to the Edinburgh Festival. Performing stand-up between some poignant and genre-defying
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He’s not just a nice guy who does semi-educational comedy shows about mildly eccentric subjects. In his free time, ALEX HORNE is the Taskmaster.
It all started last August when he was at home, looking after a
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Rob Deering’s Beat This, the cult comedy music quiz featuring a quartet of star guests, comes to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for an exclusive six-night run. Fresh from London’s Leicester Square Theatre -
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GREG DAVIES, one-third of if.comeddie-nominated sketch troupe WE ARE KLANG and star of BAFTA-winning show The Inbetweeners, brings his first solo hour of stand-up to the Fringe with Firing Cheeseballs At A Dog. Can
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Jesus Christ - Son of God! Saviour of mankind! Superstar! RICHARD HERRING - Son of Keith, a retired headmaster! Once saved a spider that had become trapped in his bath, only crushing three of its legs in the
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Following the critical success of last year’s sell-out show, Perrier Award winner LAURA SOLON returns to Edinburgh with The Owl Of Steven, a grown up adventure mystery story inspired by 8 year old Laura Solon’s
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This summer, SADIE HASLER (Al Murray’s Multiple Personality Disorder, ITV1) makes her Edinburgh solo-show debut with an hour of darkly comic characters. Fresh from performing at the Melbourne Comedy Festival and
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Back after sell-out shows in 2008 and 2009, Funny Women Finalists DOMESTIC GODDI return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with Wonderland. Get ready for a brand new sketch show from The Herald’s Pick of the Fringe
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Who’s the comic with an ear for dialogue and a bod for sin? Damn right it’s Triple Perrier Award Nominee, veteran Fringe sell-out and Winner of the 2009 Dave Award for Funniest Joke of the Fringe DAN ANTOPOLSKI
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ALEX HORNE, award-winning comedian and star and co-creator (alongside TIM KEY and MARK WATSON) of BBC Four’s comedy quiz show We Need Answers, returns to Edinburgh with his brand new stand-up show, Odds.
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After a critically acclaimed, sell-out 2009 Edinburgh run, triple Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee and I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here Now! presenter RUSSELL KANE returns with Smokescreens & Castles, a
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ALEX HORNE EMBARKS ON QUEST TO BECOME THE WORLD’S OLDEST MAN
This summer ALEX HORNE launches his record breaking attempt to become the world’s oldest man. Over the next few months, ALEX who is currently the
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This brand new comedy show for BBC THREE welcomes viewers into the world of the irrepressible LEE NELSON. Join always-loveable south-London tearaway LEE as he fronts Lee Nelson’s Well Good Show, getting in
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BADDIEL & SKINNER are to reunite on Absolute Radio this summer, resuming their position as the unofficial voice of football, supported by Sony Ericsson, Official Mobile Handset of the 2010 FIFA World Cup™.
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DOMINIC LITTLEWOOD’S award-winning consumer show, Don’t Get Done Get Dom returns to BBC ONE (10 X 45mins) this spring for its fourth series. This time around DOM, Britain’s best loved people’s champion,
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Avalon is to launch a bill of award-winning comics, including two Perrier Award winners and five if.comedy/Perrier Award nominees, as it returns for its 22nd Festival Fringe this August.
The full line-up features:
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Comedian Al Murray (The Pub Landlord) will be swapping his bar stool
for a drum stool when his band, T-34 appears at The Download Festival
on Sunday 13th June at 6.00pm on The Red Bull Stage.
Al said “I’ve
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Grumpy Guide To The Eighties is a brand new, one-hour special from the makers of Grumpy Old Men and Grumpy Old Women, in which a very-cross-section of Grumps (old and young…ish) wax irritable about the decade that
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This spring, multi-award-winning stand-up comedian FRANK SKINNER returns to BBC TWO with a brand new topical comedy series, Frank Skinner’s Opinionated. Each week FRANK will be joined by two fellow comedians and,
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Edinburgh Comedy Award nominees KRISTEN SCHAAL (star of BBC Four’s Flight of the Conchords and US Esquire’s ‘Funniest Woman on Television’) and KURT BRAUNOHLER are joined by The Mighty Boosh’s JULIAN
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It was announced today (23rd March 2010) that RUSSELL HOWARD is to embark on a brand new arena tour, Right Here, Right Now, which will see the comic perform at some of the country’s biggest venues, including the
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CHRIS ADDISON, star of BBC TWO’s BAFTA winning comedy The Thick Of It who recently appeared alongside JAMES GANDOLFINI and PETER CAPALDI in ARMANDO IANNUCCI’S British Comedy Award winning In The Loop, has
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Multi award-winning AL MURRAY, THE PUB LANDLORD is back on the road this autumn to roll out his Barrel of Fun, a brand new stand-up tour for 2010. Following the success of last year’s three time extended
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RUSSELL HOWARD returns to BBC Three this spring with a brand new series of Russell Howard’s Good News. The hit show’s debut run was the most requested BBC Three programme on iPlayer last year, and the
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“An evening of Olympic-class whingeing about the state of the world, the collapse of good manners and the general ineptitude of men … Some of the mediations on mortality and the fading of desire could almost
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CHRIS ADDISON, star of BBC TWO’s BAFTA winning comedy The Thick Of It who recently appeared alongside JAMES GANDOLFINI and PETER CAPALDI in ARMANDO IANNUCCI’S British Comedy Award winning In The Loop, is to
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Award winning comedian and star and co-creator (alongside TIM KEY and MARK WATSON) of BBC Four’s comedy quiz show We Need Answers ALEX HORNE is to embark on a 35-date national tour from 15th January 2010.
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In 2009 DAVE GORMAN did two things at the same time. He set out to cycle between the four corners of the British mainland, from south to east to west to north - and, five years after he last toured the UK, do a gig
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In one of the most talked about sell-out shows of this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, RICHARD HERRING - creator of previous hits Christ on a Bike, Talking Cock and last year’s critically acclaimed The
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BAFTA-winning stand-up LEE MACK, writer and star of BBC ONE’S hugely popular primetime sitcom Not Going Out (Royal Television Society and Golden Rose award-winner), has extended his brand new stand-up tour due to
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An Englishman, an Irishman, and a Welshman are on a ferry headed for Dublin… GRIFF RHYS JONES, DARA O’BRIAIN and RORY MCGRATH are back on BBC TWO this Christmas for the fourth voyage in their hit Three Men In A
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★★★★ The Sunday Times; ★★★★The List; ★★★★ Edinburgh Evening News; ★★★★ Fest; ★★★★ Three Weeks; ★★★★ Fringe Review; ★★★★ The National Student
After a
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Following the success of the long-running Grumpy Old Men and Grumpy Old Women series, a host of inveterate Grumps of both sexes (and varying ages) vent their collective spleen at the festive season this year in
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Direct from THE GUV's largest lock-in, all hail to the ale this autumn as Al Murray - The Pub Landlord’s Beautiful British Tour Live at the O2 is released by ITV DVD on 16th November 2009. Recorded live this May
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Direct from an award-winning Edinburgh run DAN ANTOPOLSKI, triple-Perrier Award nominee and winner of the Dave Award for the Funniest Joke of the Fringe 2009, is to embark on his first national tour. The star of
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The undisputed, sporadically-acclaimed comedian ANDY ZALTZMAN (star of The Bugle podcast and Radio 4’s Political Animal) returns to BBC Radio 4 with his decade-by-decade comic analysis of the Third Millennium.
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You may know her as a singer, you may know her as a dancer, you may have seen her in the press, but Strictly Come Dancing’s latest addition to the judging panel, ALESHA DIXON, has taken a completely different
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Following the success of a one-off special, comedy-drama Mouth To Mouth returns to BBC THREE this November with a brand new six-part series of interwoven monologues.
Set in noughties Britain, Mouth to Mouth deals
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This Christmas ADRIAN CHILES presents the funniest moments in World Cup history in 2 Good 2 Bad - The World Cup, a feature length edition of Match of the Day 2’s must-see weekly round-up. ADRIAN, joined by former
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This autumn sees the release of Harry Hill’s TV Burp Gold 2, a new DVD packed with the most memorable clips, skits and quips from the archives of the four-time BAFTA-winning show. Following last year’s hugely
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RUSSELL HOWARD is to make his BBC Three debut with a brand new topical show. Russell Howard’s Good News will be put together each week on the brink of transmission, so it’s impossible to call what news will
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As It Occurs To Me is a revolutionary new ten-part weekly stand-up and sketch show written and performed by RICHARD HERRING which will only be available via internet download from iTunes and the British Comedy Guide
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It was announced today (25th September 2009) that Avalon Distribution has sold LEE MACK’S Royal Television Society and Rose D’Or award-winning Not Going Out to Japan’s WOWOW and Sweden’s TV4. These most
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Direct from a totally sold out Edinburgh run, Perrier Award Winner LAURA SOLON (BBC ONE’s Ruddy Hell! It’s Harry and Paul, ITV1’s Al Murray’s Multiple Personality Disorder and Radio 4’s Talking and Not
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Harry Hill’s TV Burp returns this autumn, in a year that has seen HARRY add to his already impressive awards haul for the show, with another BAFTA Award and wins at both the British Comedy Awards and RTS
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From the bestselling author of The Pub Landlord’s Book of British Common Sense comes Think Yourself British by Al Murray, The Pub Landlord. This autumn help yourself to Britain’s best ‘help yourself’ book
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This autumn sees the release of the first ever Harry Hill’s TV Burp Book, packed with all-new jokes, puzzles, parodies, cartoons and games written exclusively for the book by the four-time BAFTA-winning comic.
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RUSSELL HOWARD, star of BBC TWO’s Mock The Week, is to release his critically-acclaimed stand up show Dingledodies on DVD this autumn. Recorded during the twice extended tour which sold over 120,000 tickets
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A CHANCE TO GIVE AN UNUSUAL GIFT TO SOMEONE YOU KNOW … IMMORTALITY
How often have you heard a person speaking and thought "someone should record this before it's too late?”
A new website launched today (8th
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It was announced today (26th August 2009) that CHRIS ADDISON, star of BBC TWO’s BAFTA winning comedy The Thick Of It who recently appeared alongside JAMES GANDOLFINI and PETER CAPALDI in ARMANDO IANNUCCI’S hit
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2009 National Tour
Sharp-witted stand-up comic ALUN COCHRANE, recognised for his recent TV appearances on Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow (BBC ONE) and his return as a panellist on popular satirical comedy
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This year DAVE GORMAN decided to go back on the road. And when we say “on the road” we really mean it. Five years after he last toured the UK, August 30th 2009 sees him embarking on a truly unique stand-up
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Extremely clever at being stupid, if.comedy and Barry Award nominees We Are Klang are about to unleash their inimitable brand of buffoonery onto BBC Three. Filmed in front of a live studio audience, their new show
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GREG BEHRENDT - Sex and the City writer and New York Times bestselling co-author of He’s Just Not That Into You - makes his UK debut at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with Love, Sex, Pudding, Death. A prolific
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It was announced today (6th July 2009) that RUSSELL HOWARD is to embark on a 10-date UK-wide arena tour, Big Rooms & Belly Laughs, taking in some of the country’s biggest venues. The tour begins on 11th
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RUSSELL HOWARD, star of BBC TWO’S Mock The Week, will be the brand new host of Edinburgh & Beyond, which returns for its fourth series this July. Taking the reigns from multi-award winning comedian AL MURRAY
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COLIN HOULT - acclaimed writer-performer who recently appeared in Al Murray’s Multiple Personality Disorder (ITV1), and Pete and Dud: Come Again (West End, The Venue / Leicester Square Theatre) - presents his
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After last year’s debut in the prestigious Comedy Zone, star of BBC Switch (BBC TWO, BBC Radio 1 & online) TOM DEACON returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with his first solo show Indecisive. Struggling
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JIMMY McGHIE, BBC New Talent and Amused Moose Star Search finalist, embarks on his Edinburgh solo debut. Following on from the critical success of his 2008 split-bill show at the Gilded Balloon, he returns to the
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We’ve all been kids and some of us father them - if you trust the blood-test guy, he was smoking in a lab and his english was poor - but whatever. Wouldn’t it be amazing if someone who wasn’t a bell-end was
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SIMON BRODKIN, acclaimed writer and performer on Al Murray’s Multiple Personality Disorder (ITV1), returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with his brand new multi-character comedy show. Hold tight as the
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“Thou art lazier than Columbo’s eye.”
After last year’s acclaimed debut Edinburgh play, RUSSELL KANE’s Fakespeare is back with a brand new bawdy romp in blank verse. Following a hit three-day run at last
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The Edinburgh Festival Fringe’s longest running stand-up showcase is back for its 19th year. Recognised as the place to catch the best new stand-ups on the Fringe, it has helped launched the careers of DAVE
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Perrier Award winning comic LAURA SOLON is to return to Edinburgh with her first live show since her 2005 award winning debut. The acclaimed writer and performer of Talking and Not Talking (BBC Radio 4), Laura, Ben
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Since February 2008, esteemed broadcaster and star of I Love 1983* ANDREW COLLINS has been coming round to the house of scatological comedian, and ‘Percy the Shepherd’ from BBC ONE’s Servants, RICHARD HERRING
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For his 25th Fringe show, RICHARD HERRING - creator of the hit shows Christ on a Bike, Talking Cock and last year’s critically acclaimed The Headmaster’s Son - attempts to reclaim the Hitler ‘tache for
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Get the look… Get the Domestic Goddi look
Back after 2008's hit show, BBC Comedy Award-winner HELEN O’BRIEN and Stage Award-nominee GENEVIEVE SWALLOW show us ‘How To Cope’ the Domestic Goddi way: with
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Following his two previous critically-acclaimed hit solo Edinburgh shows - the most recent of which quite creepily "foretold" the Credit Crunch - DAN ATKINSON has called his new show Death by a Thousand Pricks, and
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The title is spot on. FERGUS CRAIG - winner of the Hackney Empire New Act of the Year 2009 and star of Channel 4’s hit comedy Star Stories - does indeed still watch Neighbours. In 1988 Scott and Charlene’s
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Star of HBO’s Flight of the Conchords KRISTEN SCHAAL and acclaimed US stand-up KURT BRAUNOHLER had an amazing time in Edinburgh last year. They had so much fun they couldn't wait to come back. But, they forgot
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THE UMBRELLA BIRDS, stars of BBC Radio 4’s The Ladies, return to Edinburgh for a third year with Sketches in a Shop Changing Room. Following the success of their cult hits, WC and Gym, they are back - with a show
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Mickey Dolenz’s mother invented the glue gun!
Cats can’t hear vowels!
Before Foreign Ministers meet David Miliband they are made to sign a document stating they will not try to touch his lovely hair!
These are
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Following the sell-out success of 2008’s critically acclaimed hit Gaping Flaws, and hot on the heels of his acclaimed appearance on BBC1 ONE’s Live at the Apollo, double if.comedy Award nominee RUSSELL KANE is
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There are plenty of comedian memoirs this year… The pick of the bunch is probably Frank Skinner on the Road, which distinguishes itself by being a) unusual, b) funny, and c) actually written by the person named on
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Following the critical success of his first national tour, double if.comedy Award-nominee RUSSELL KANE will return to the road for the second time this year with his brand new stand-up show Human Dressage. Known
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It was announced today (10 June 2009) that Perrier Award winning comic LAURA SOLON will have a two-week run at the Soho Theatre this autumn with her first live solo show since her 2005 award-winning debut. The
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It was announced today (Monday 1st June 2009) that Avalon Distribution have sold the four-time (three UK and one USA) BAFTA, the Royal Television Society and Comedy Award winning Harry Hill’s TV Burp format to
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Avalon is to launch a bill of award-winning comics, including three Perrier Award winners and three if.comedy/Perrier Award nominees, as it returns for its 21st Festival Fringe this August.
The full line-up
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Grumpy Old Women Live 2: Chin Up Britain, a brand new show from the creators of the touring theatre phenomenon Grumpy Old Women Live, is set to hit UK venues in 2009. The new show sees SUSIE BLAKE (Coronation
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Frank Skinner’s Credit Crunch Cabaret will take up residence in Edinburgh for the Festival Fringe. The hour-and-a-half show will run in the Assembly Rooms from the 14th to 30th August, with extra late shows
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It was announced today (08 May 2009) that BBC Three has commissioned Avalon Television to make a new pilot with one of the country's fastest rising comedians, RUSSELL HOWARD. The exciting new show for the if.comedy
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BAFTA-winning stand-up LEE MACK, writer and star of BBC ONE’S hugely popular primetime sitcom Not Going Out (Royal Television Society and Golden Rose award-winner), is to embark on a brand new stand-up tour making
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It was announced today (24 April 2009) that Frank Skinner’s Credit Crunch Cabaret has been extended for a third time. The show resumes its Monday residency at The Lyric Theatre with a 10-date autumn run starting
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It was announced today (22nd April 2009) that brand new show Grumpy Old Women Live 2: Chin Up Britain will tour major UK theatre venues this autumn. The new show will see SUSIE BLAKE (Coronation Street, The
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In 2009, DAVE GORMAN decided to set off on a unique national tour. The intention: to cycle over 1500 miles across Britain in 33 days… with a gig each night. We suppose that explains the title.
But demand for
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Al Murray - The Pub Landlord’s Beautiful British Tour has been extended by an additional 29 dates - taking the national run to over 80 shows, totalling in excess of 220,000 tickets. This is the third time the tour
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From the makers of Grumpy Old Men and Grumpy Old Women, comes Grouchy Young Men, a brand new one-hour special that gives a younger generation of disgruntled gents the chance to let off some steam. Proving that
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It was announced today (30th March 2008) that brand new show Grumpy Old Women Live 2: Chin Up Britain will see SUSIE BLAKE (Coronation Street, The Victoria Wood Show) and WENDI PETERS (Coronation Street, Bad Girls)
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AL MURRAY’S classic sitcom, Time Gentleman Please, is to be released on DVD, giving fans the chance to revisit THE PUB LANDLORD’S first-ever television role. The entire collection, consisting of series one and
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The second series of the British Comedy Award-winning Al Murray’s Happy Hour is to be released on DVD this spring. All hail to the ale as the critically acclaimed series, packed with top notch celebrity chat,
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“Tickets for Skinner's cabaret cost a tenner - which is hard to sneeze at, even in the chilly depths of this discontented winter. …Skinner is the ideal compere for this event: a comic everyman and a great
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It was announced today (23rd February 2009) that DAVE GORMAN is going back on the road. And when we say “on the road” we really mean it. Five years after he last toured the UK he’s embarking on a truly unique
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Al Murray’s Multiple Personality Disorder is a brand new comedy sketch show written by and starring the multi-award winning creator of The Pub Landlord. The seven-part peak-time ITV1 series will introduce AL as a
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The acclaimed second series of LEE MACK’S Royal Television Society and Golden Rose award-winning sitcom, Not Going Out, is set to be released on DVD for the first time by Universal Pictures. Packed full of the
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It was announced today (23rd January 2009) that multi-award winning comedian, FRANK SKINNER, is to launch the Credit Crunch Cabaret, offering audiences the chance to see acclaimed comics, West End performers and
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Following a sell-out run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, RICHARD HERRING is to tour his critically-acclaimed show The Headmaster’s Son during 2009. The 39-date tour begins with a two-week run at London’s The
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The Royal Television Society and Golden Rose award-winning Not Going Out, written by and starring LEE MACK, returns to BBC ONE this January. Back with an extended eight-part series, the sitcom follows the jokes,
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Perrier Award nominee ALEX HORNE is to embark on a 32-date national tour from 1st February 2009. Birdwatching, which played to critical acclaim at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, sees ALEX tackle a subject that
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Double if.comedy Award nominee and host of BBC Radio 2’s Out To Lunch RUSSELL KANE is to embark on his first national tour. Following the sell-out success of his critically acclaimed stand-up show Gaping Flaws -
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It was announced today (07 October 2008) that Director of Sales at Hat Trick International, ISOBEL HUGHES, will join Avalon as Director of Distribution. The current Head of Distribution, ROB ASLETT, will stay on as
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It was announced today (03 October 2008) that former Director of Daytime and Lifestyle Programming at ITV Productions, DIANNE NELMES, will join Liberty Bell as Managing Director. The current Managing Director,
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Avalon Television’s acclaimed sketch show Touch Me, I’m Karen Taylor is to be made for RTL, Germany’s biggest channel. The network immediately picked up an entire series after viewing a one-hour broadcast
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The multi-award winning Harry Hill’s TV Burp will return for an eighth extended series this autumn. This year has already seen the show scoop three BAFTA Awards (two UK and one US) pick up a Royal Television
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RUSSELL HOWARD, star of BBC TWO’s Mock The Week, will return to venues across the UK this year as he embarks on a 60-date national tour with his new show, Dingledodies. The if.comedy and Barry Award nominee will
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Multi award-winning AL MURRAY, THE PUB LANDLORD is to embark on a spring 2009 tour - making over 65,000 tickets available across 32-dates in the UK & Ireland. Following the critical success of hit primetime
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