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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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