Good News coming back

February 26, 2010 – 3:24 pm | by Peekay

Russell Howard returns to BBC Three this spring with a brand new series of Russell Howard’s Good News.  The show’s debut run was the most requested BBC Three programme on iPlayer last year, and the channel’s most successful studio-based entertainment show ever drawing in 2.5 million viewers a week. 

With each episode put together just days before transmission, there’s no knowing what will feature in the first show, but the new series will see Russell turn news-junkie once again as he puts his spin on the week’s headlines, as well as highlighting some of the more overlooked stories that have caught his eye as he sifts through the papers, news websites and TV news channels.
 
Russell Howard’s Good News is recorded in front of a live studio audience but viewers at home will have the chance to shape the news agenda by submitting stories online at www.bbc.co.uk/russellhoward (where you will also be able to view exclusive extra features) or via Twitter at www.twitter.com/bbcgoodnews. The series will run for seven weeks, followed by an hour-long best of, which will also feature previously unseen footage.

Gorman announces more Genius moments.

February 9, 2010 – 1:08 pm | by Peekay

Dave Gorman has announced on his blog that the BBC have decided to commission another of his Genius series.

Gorman wrote, “I said in my last post that there might be some good news to announce soon… well, here it is.

“We’ve got the go ahead to make a new series of Genius for BBC2. Which means the hunt for new geniuses is stepped up once again.”

The series transferred successfully to TV after starting life on BBC Radio 4 – a familiar route for comedy shows.

“The best way to submit ideas is via the Genius website where you can either e-mail the team or upload a video of you explaining your idea.”

The Genius website is http://www.bbc.co.uk/genius/

Keith Farnan arrives at Soho Theatre

February 6, 2010 – 10:42 pm | by Peekay

Whilst working in a restaurant in the USA, Keith came across this old-fashioned sign in the manager’s office. Stranger still is that the employees consisted of a young African-American, a Jewish waiter and his Irish self, but no dogs to be seen, so perhaps certain prejudices never die. ‘No Blacks. No Jews. No Dogs. No Irish. All Welcome’ is the exploration into racism and religion-ism in the bad old days as well as the issues raised by immigration today.

Critically acclaimed comic Keith Farnan has always found being Irish an advantage – who doesn’t love a good old Irish accent whilst sipping on a pint of stout? But it wasn’t always like this and signs such as “No Irish Need Apply” were commonplace where the Irish landed in droves. So what happened to change people’s mind? And how have the Irish treated their own immigrants over the years?
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Addison set to tour

January 25, 2010 – 11:08 am | by Peekay

Chris Addison, star of BBC TWO’s BAFTA winning comedy “The Thick Of It” who recently appeared in the Award winning “In The Loop”, is to embark on a 40-date national tour with his first new stand up show since 2005’s Perrier Award nominated Atomicity.  The tour will start from 5th February 2010.
 
Fresh from the latest critically acclaimed series of The Thick Of It, CHRIS can also be heard hosting 7 Day Sunday, a new live topical show on BBC Radio 5 Live and is set to appear in the new series of Channel 4’s Skins. 

The tour sees Chris return to the stand up that made his name and promises his trademark mix of daftness, whimsy, jokes, lies, smartarsery, and flapping about.  Chris says: “I’m really excited to be going back out on the road. I’ve got a packet of Werther’s Originals in the glovebox, a voucher for 20p off any non-meat Ginsters product purchased at Welcome Break service stations before the end of February, a flask of Bovril and a whole bunch of new jokes and stories.  Now if I can just work out how to get this Sat Nav to stop giving instructions in Danish I’ll be all set.”

Get full and updated tour details at Chris’ website.