SELECT Chris Addison Dan Antopolski Dan Atkinson David Baddiel Jack Barry Lucy Beaumont Greg Behrendt Kieran Boyd Kurt Braunohler Simon Brodkin Fiona Bruce Steve Bugeja Craig Campbell Adrian Chiles Alun Cochrane Roisin Conaty Mark Cooper-Jones Tom Craine Greg Davies Rob Delaney Carl Donnelly Jenny Eclair Hayley Ellis Matt Forde Ed Gamble Peacock & Gamble Dave Gorman Steve Hall Richard Herring Adam Hess Alex Horne Russell Howard Carl Hutchinson Russell Kane Helen Keen We Are Klang Hari Kondabolu Lee Mack Gráinne Maguire Paul McCaffrey Karl Minns Katie Mulgrew Al Murray Helen O'Brien John Oliver Naz Osmanoglu Ray Peacock Chris Ramsey Jarlath Regan Gareth Richards Tommy Rowson Kristen Schaal Ahir Shah Frank Skinner Mark Smith Alex Smith Tiff Stevenson Iain Stirling Phil Wang Reggie Watts Rosie Wilkinson Joe Wilkinson Ben Willbond Steve Williams Andy Zaltzman Al Murray Live 7 Day Sunday Al Murray's German Adventure Al Murray's Happy Hour Al Murray's Multiple Personality Disorder Baddiel and Skinner Unplanned Catastrophe Crane Gang, The Dave Gorman: Modern Life Is Goodish David Baddiel Live Fantasy Football League Frank Skinner’s Opinionated Grumpy Old Women Grumpy Old Women Live Grumpy... Harry Hill's TV Burp Heir Hunters Heresy John Oliver's New York Stand-Up Show Lakes on a Plate, The Lee Nelson's Well Good Show Lee Nelson's Well Good Show Live At The Electric Man Down Mouth To Mouth Nightmare Neighbour Next Door, The Not Going Out Penelope Princess of Pets Russell Howard Live Russell Howard's Good News Russell Howard's Good News That Sunday Night Show The Horne Section Three Day Nanny, The Three Men In A Boat Touch Me, I'm Karen Taylor TV Burp TASKMASTER - A NEW COMEDY SERIES HOSTED BY GREG DAVIES FOR UKTV’S DAVE FROM AVALON TELEVISION It was announced today (Thursday 18 September 2014) that UKTV has commissioned a new 6 x 60 min series, devised by comedian and 2014 Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee ALEX HORNE, starring GREG DAVIES and RUSSELL HOWARD'S GOOD NEWS MOVES TO BBC TWO THIS OCTOBER GOOD NEWS FOR BBC TWO "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 "You UK TOUR ANNOUNCED FOR RICHARD HERRING WITH SIX CONSECUTIVE NIGHTS AT LONDON’S LEICESTER SQUARE THEATRE Have you ever. . . - considered the amazing power of the sombrero to eradicate all sadness? - noticed the terrible curse of the UK’s oldest person? (whoever receives this poisoned chalice is always dead MATT FORDE’S SPORTS PARTY LAUNCHED FOR AUTUMN 2014 MATT FORDE is set to host a monthly celebration of sports and some of its biggest personalities with his brand-new show Matt Forde’s Sports Party. Fans of the critically acclaimed, sold-out Political Party can LUCY BEAUMONT: WE CAN TWERK IT OUT She's got the timing of Les Dawson....an absolute natural Johnny Vegas Following a sold out and critically acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe run, up and coming BBC New Comedy Award winner and Foster’s Best Newcomer WITTANK TO PILOT NEW SCRIPTED SERIES FOR E4 It was announced today (20 August 2014) that E4 has commissioned Avalon Television to produce a new 30-minute pilot with acclaimed comedy trio WITTANK. The new commission will see WITTANK, who have previously AL MURRAY’S GREAT BRITISH WAR MOVIES BBC Four, Monday 25th August at 8pm Comedian and history buff AL MURRAY is joined by historian DAN SNOW, writer NATALIE HAYNES and film expert MATTHEW SWEET for a fresh look at a subject very close to his heart, DAVE GORMAN’S MISCHIEVOUS LOOK AT MODERN LIFE RETURNS TO DAVE Dave, Tuesday 9th September at 9pm “Dave Gorman is funny and brilliant in equal measure.” David Chater, The Times “TV Gold” Ally Ross, The Sun DAVE (GORMAN) and Dave’s (the UKTV channel) ratings and BBC ONE HEADS FOR THE SCRAP YARD BBC One is heading to Bolton for a peak-time observational, character-driven series, Scrappers. The 6 x 30 minute series will introduce larger-than-life TERRY and LYNDSAY WALKER, the husband and wife team behind THE PUB LANDLORD LATE LOCK-IN It was announced today (Monday 4th August 2014) that, for one night only, THE PUB LANDLORD will have a go at reprising his first ever Edinburgh Fringe solo show in the room the character was born in, by accident, BRAND NEW UK TOUR EXTENDED INTO 2015 It was announced today (Friday 1st August 2014) that The Grumpy Old Women will continue to knock further sense in to the nation with their brand new show on a third leg of the UK tour. Perrier Award winning MATT FORDE: THE POLITICAL PARTY PODCAST - SCOTTISH INDEPENDENCE SPECIAL On 18th September Scotland decides its future. In two special Political Party Podcast shows, MATT FORDE will interview a leading political figure from both sides of the debate ahead of the Scottish independence RUSSELL KANE - THE CLOSURE OF CRAIG SOLLY You, the audience, become the friends and family of this psychotic gangster's victims. In this bleak and viscerally twisted monologue, a fractured man attempts to explain himself. Craig Solly has taken a RUSSELL KANE - SMALLNESS What is it with us and smallness? We Brits love it - being tiny but fierce, close but distant. RUSSELL feels the same way and he returns with this blisteringly big-small show. Watch him ejaculate thoughts about THE HORNE SECTION - MILK THE TENDERNESS Following a fourth consecutive sell-out run at the 2013 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, ALEX HORNE and THE HORNE SECTION roll into Edinburgh with a brand new barnstorming show, bringing their unique mix of stand up, ED GAMBLE - GAMBLETRON 5000 Stand-up comedian ED GAMBLE would love you to see his debut solo show Gambletron 5000 at Edinburgh Festival, but he realises that you are your own person and you make your own choices. Essentially he is asking you CRAIG CAMPBELL THRILLING MIC HUNT EXTENDED INTO AUTUMN 2014 Following a sold out Edin-ormous Edinburgh Fringe run and over 50 tour dates Craig Campbell’s Thrilling Mic Hunt extends into Autumn 2014 to a further 15 venues. Our merry moose returns with more gut-pullingly, NICHOLA MCAULIFFE & JUSTIN EDWARDS JOIN THE CAST OF I KILLED RASPUTIN, A BRAND NEW PLAY BY RICHARD HERRING ‘I don’t know of an instance in modern history where so many reputable as well as disreputable historians have solemnly repeated such a patently improbably story as if it were gospel’ - EM Halliday The cast PHIL WANG: MELLOW YELLOW Award-winning comic PHIL WANG presents Mellow Yellow, the follow-up to his critically-acclaimed 2013 Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut. Join this confident nerd and feminist creep as he smashes Chinese stereotypes LUCY BEAUMONT: WE CAN TWERK IT OUT She's got the timing of Les Dawson....an absolute natural Johnny Vegas Up and coming BBC New Comedy Award winner LUCY BEAUMONT invites you into her world on the North East coast at Edinburgh Festival this August MATT FORDE: 24 HOUR POLITICAL PARTY PEOPLE The countdown to the 2015 Election starts here. MATT FORDE returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with a brand-new show which celebrates the great and the good (and Ed Miliband). MATT FORDE’s London show, The WITTANK: OLD SCHOOL SECRETS Stars of BBC Three’s Live at the Electric and BBC Radio 4’s Sketchorama, Sketch maestros WITTANK invite you back into the ostentatiously furnished corridors of The School; a splendidly twisted world, and an CARL HUTCHINSON: HERE'S ME SHOW Amused Moose Best Show Nominee 2012 CARL HUTCHINSON is an unashamedly grouchy young man. He’s made a special effort to be more patient towards people and their situations but he just possesses an uncanny ability TOM CRAINE: THOUGHTS ON LOVE (BY A MAN WITH NONE OF THE ANSWERS) Award-winning comedian, writer, and one third of critically-acclaimed sketch group JIGSAW, TOM CRAINE returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this August with his brand new solo show, Thoughts On Love (By A Man IAIN STIRLING: EVERYTHING Edinburgh-born BAFTA nominated IAIN STIRLING invites us in to those moments in life which have made him reconsider everything. With a newly adopted and brutally honest approach, IAIN discusses the self-exploration CHRIS RAMSEY: THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN ON SATURDAY MORNING TELEVISION Following a five-month sold-out UK tour, star of BBC Two’s sitcom Hebburn and Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee, CHRIS RAMSEY returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this August for nine performances only of his RAY PEACOCK: HERE COMES TROUBLE RAY PEACOCK has been a very naughty boy recently and it's time to find out why. Join the quadruple Chortle Award nominated comedian and best bit of Edinburgh favourites PEACOCK & GAMBLE as he takes you through EDINBURGH FRINGE 2014: TIFF STEVENSON, OPTIMIST Are you a glass half full kind of person? If so, congratulations, you are an optimist and this is the show for you. Are you a glass half empty kind of person? If so, at least you bought a drink in the first place so TOM SHILLUE - IMPOSSIBLE Tom Shillue has long been one of my favourite storytellers. See his show! (Or, at the very least, read this quote!) Demetri Martin He might be the best comedian I've ever been in a barbershop quartet with Jimmy TIFF STEVENSON EMBARKS ON UK TOUR WITH OPTIMIST Are you a glass half full kind of person? If so, congratulations, you are an optimist and this is the show for you. Are you a glass half empty kind of person? If so, at least you bought a drink in the first place so ALEX HORNE - MONSIEUR BUTTERFLY ALEX HORNE WANTS TO SHOW YOU HIS CONTRAPTION Remember that board game, Mousetrap, where you had to build a complicated machine to catch a mouse? Now that was a brilliant board game, wasn't it? And you know that CARL DONNELLY: NOW THAT'S WHAT I CARL DONNELLY! VOL. VI In a bid to find himself, 2013 Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee CARL DONNELLY spent last year travelling around India following the end of a relationship. Unfortunately what he found out is that he’s a bit of an TOMMY ROWSON: DOWN AND OUT IN POWYS AND LONDON TOMMY ROWSON, winner of So You Think You're Funny 2011 and BBC New Comedy Finalist 2012, presents his highly-anticipated debut show Down and Out in Powys and London at the 2014 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Join TOMMY RICHARD HERRING: LORD OF THE DANCE SETTEE DANCE, DANCE, WHEREVER YOU MAY BE FOR I AM THE LORD OF THE DANCE SETTEE… Have you ever…. - considered the amazing power of the sombrero to eradicate all sadness? - noticed the terrible curse of the UK’s THE COMEDY ZONE The Fringe’s longest-running and most prestigious showcase turns 24 this year. The Comedy Zone has established itself as the essential Edinburgh show to see the major comedy stars of tomorrow. CHRIS ADDISON, FRANK SKINNER - MAN IN A SUIT FRANK SKINNER will perform his critically acclaimed stand-up show Man In a Suit at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe from 1st - 24th August. WHAT THE PRESS HAVE SAID ABOUT MAN IN A SUIT ‘Man in a Suit’ sees PAUL MCCAFFREY: PAUL OR NOTHING PAUL MCCAFFREY has taken a month out of his busy daily routine of signing for his neighbours’ parcels while they're at work and trying to stop his cats from using the internet to perform his new show PAUL or KATIE MULGREW - HAPPILY EVER AFTER KATIE MULGREW kinda thinks she’s a real life Disney princess. She even found her Prince Charming and married him in a massive frock. Now according to Disney philosophy, she’s found her happily ever after. HAYLEY ELLIS: WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN Award-winning newcomer HAYLEY ELLIS had a pretty crap year in 2012 but got through it with help from Woman’s best friend, her dog Kevin. This year HAYLEY is back in Edinburgh bringing Kevin and her first solo show NIGHTMARE NEIGHBOURS NOT GOING ANYWHERE AS CHANNEL 5 COMMISSIONS SECOND SERIES It was announced today (04 June 2014) that Flame Television is building on its ratings winner The Nightmare Neighbour Next Door, with a recommission from Channel 5. The first series told the traumatic, shocking, DAVE GORMAN GETS STRAIGHT TO THE POINT* (*THE POWERPOINT) FOUR NEW SHOWS ADDED AT LONDON’S SOUTHBANK CENTRE It was announced today (25th June 2014) that DAVE GORMAN will add four shows at London’s Southbank Centre for his brand new tour, Dave Gorman Gets Straight To COMEDY CENTRAL ANNOUNCES NEW RUSSELL HOWARD DEAL CHANNEL COMMISSIONS TWO BRAND-NEW SHOWS, ACQUIRES FULL ‘RUSSELL HOWARD’S GOOD NEWS’ CATALOGUE & GAINS BROADCAST RIGHTS TO FOUR LIVE STAND-UP SPECIALS London, Thursday 12 June 2014: Comedy Central today ONE MAN, ONE GUVNOR - 20 YEARS AT THE LAGER TOP It was announced today (Wednesday 11th June 2014) that, in the GUVNOR’S twentieth year, multi-award-winning AL MURRAY, THE PUB LANDLORD will extend his forthcoming 52-date tour of the UK by a further 40 dates into GOOD NEWS FOR BBC TWO It was announced today (09 June 2014) that after eight hugely successful series on BBC Three, Russell Howard’s Good News is moving to BBC Two. The show, in which RUSSELL comments on the week’s news with a mix ‘CATASTROPHE’ A NEW CHANNEL 4 COMEDY CREATED BY ROB DELANEY AND SHARON HORGAN It was announced today (3 June 2014) that, after a successful pilot, ROB DELANEY (US comedian and bestselling author) and SHARON HORGAN (award-winning actress and star/co-writer of Pulling) have been commissioned to FRANK SKINNER ANNOUNCES MAN IN A SUIT TOUR EXTENSION FRANK SKINNER is set to extend his new stand-up show Man In a Suit into the autumn by a further 23 dates, including performances in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Pre-sale tickets will be available JARRED CHRISTMAS TO HOST NEW CBBC SHOW MADE BY LIBERTY BELL It was announced today (16 May 2014) that Liberty Bell Scotland are making a new children’s show, The Joke Machine (50 x 5 minutes) for CBBC. The Joke Machine is an interplanetary craft manned by the Joke AVALON ANNOUNCE EDINBURGH FESTIVAL FRINGE LINE-UP FOR 2014 Avalon announce the full line-up for their 26th year at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, with the chance to see: FRANK SKINNER performing stand-up at the Fringe for the first time in seven years, limited runs from FRANK SKINNER ANNOUNCES EXTRA LONDON DATES Following a sell-out London run, FRANK SKINNER will return to the Leicester Square Theatre on Saturday 7th June for two further performances of his acclaimed new stand-up show Man In a Suit. Tickets are available to ONE MAN, ONE GUVNOR - 20 YEARS AT THE LAGER TOP It was announced today (Wednesday 9th April 2014) that, in the GUVNOR’S twentieth year, multi-award-winning AL MURRAY, THE PUB LANDLORD will embark on a 52-date tour of the UK with a brand new live stand-up show. RUSSELL HOWARD SET TO RETURN FOR FURTHER UK ARENA DATES THIS AUTUMN AFTER USA AND AUSTRALIAN TOURS It was announced today (Wednesday 9th April) that RUSSELL HOWARD will add a major autumn extension to the UK leg of his sold-out 2014 Wonderbox world tour. This tour has already seen almost 200,000 fans book to see ANDY ZALTZMAN: SATIRIST FOR HIRE LIVE STAND-UP DATES ANNOUNCED ANDY ZALTZMAN, the British-based half of the global hit topical podcast The Bugle, takes his uniquely interactive new show, Satirist for Hire, on the road, giving audiences the chance to have the issues they care THE REAL LIFE OF BRIAN CONLEY One of Britain’s most revered comic-entertainers brings a new 25-date tour to the UK this spring. Expect comedy, sketches and even a bit of song as BRIAN takes a retrospective, often hilarious, journey through CHRIS RAMSEY: THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN ON SATURDAY MORNING TELEVISION TOUR EXTENDED IN TO AUTUMN 2014 Following a five-month sold-out UK tour, star of BBC Two’s sitcom Hebburn and Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee, CHRIS RAMSEY will extend his nationwide tour, Chris Ramsey: The Most Dangerous Man on Saturday Morning AVALON DISTRIBUTION AGREE MULTIPLE GLOBAL SALES OF CHANNEL 4 SHOW, THE THREE DAY NANNY Broadcasters confirmed to pick up the first series are RTL (Netherlands), TV2 (Norway), TV3 (New Zealand), TV4 (Sweden), VMMA (Belgium), with a further major territory expected to be announced soon. The Three Day DAVE COMMISSIONS A FURTHER TWO SERIES OF DAVE GORMAN TV SHOW THAT TAKES A MISCHIEVOUS LOOK AT MODERN LIFE It was announced today (27 January 2014) that the ratings and critical hit, Dave Gorman Modern Life Is Goodish will return to UKTV entertainment channel Dave for a further two extended series. The Liberty Bell HIT THE ROAD MACK 2014 TOUR EXTENDED It was announced today (04 December 2013) that LEE MACK will extend his brand new tour, Hit The Road Mack in autumn 2014. The new dates will see extra shows in major cities including: London, Sheffield, Manchester, BBC RADIO 4 COMMISSION THE REST IS HISTORY, A BRAND NEW SIX-PART COMEDY PANEL SHOW CREATED AND HOSTED BY FRANK SKINNER It was announced today (Wednesday 26th February 2014) that FRANK SKINNER has created and will present a brand-new, six-part comedy discussion show with Avalon Television, The Rest is History, For BBC Radio 4. FAME: NOT THE MUSICAL DAVID BADDIEL ANNOUNCES EXTENDED LONDON RUN AT THE MENIER CHOCOLATE FACTORY Following a string of sold-out performances at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and London’s Southbank Centre, DAVID BADDIEL announces a four week run of dates at London’s Menier Chocolate Factory, with his THE RETURN OF THE GRUMPY OLD WOMEN FIFTY SHADES OF BEIGE - BRAND NEW UK TOUR FOR 2014 Back to knock some sense back into the nation with their brand new show, The Grumpy Old Women return with a 42 date UK tour. Perrier Award winning comedian, writer and original star of Grumpy Old Women JENNY ECLAIR FRANK SKINNER ANNOUNCES MAN IN A SUIT UK TOUR Following his sold out London run, FRANK SKINNER will take to the road in April 2014 for the first time since his sell-out nationwide tour in 2007 with 35 performances only of his new show Man In a Suit. Pre-sale US COMIC KURT BRAUNOHLER TO PERFORM DEBUT SOLO SHOW AT LONDON’S SOHO THEATRE Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee, KURT BRAUNOHLER brings his first solo show Kurt Braunohler: Here's Where It Gets Weird to the Soho Theatre, London with tales of battling British washing machines, writing jokes in RUSSELL KANE RETURNS TO HOST A THIRD SERIES OF THE HIT BBC THREE SHOW “Russell Kane hosts the show we’ve all been crying out for” Jack Seale, Radio Times Live at the Electric, BBC Three’s freshest and finest theatre of comedy, returns to BBC Three for a brand new series this DAVID BADDIEL - FAME: NOT THE MUSICAL EXTRA LONDON DATES ADDED Following a critically-acclaimed sold-out return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and his first run in London for 15 years, DAVID BADDIEL has added extra London dates at the Southbank Centre with Fame: Not The CRAIG CAMPBELL THRILLING MIC HUNT EXTENDED INTO 2014 Internationally acclaimed stand-up and master storyteller CRAIG CAMPBELL is set to extend his brand new tour, Thrilling Mic Hunt, into spring 2014 by a further 31 dates. Tickets go on general sale on Tuesday 3rd FRANK SKINNER, MAN IN A SUIT: EXTRA LIVE LONDON DATES ANNOUNCED Following FRANK SKINNER’s sold-out return to stand-up at the Soho Theatre, the comic will perform a further five week run of his brand new show Man In A Suit at London’s Leicester Square Theatre from 21st GREG DAVIES, THE BACK OF MY MUM'S HEAD: NEW FOR DVD AND BLU-RAY THIS AUTUMN “One of this country’s best comedians” The Times It was announced today (Monday 28th October 2013) that 4DVD will bring GREG DAVIES’ (Man Down, Cuckoo and The Inbetweeners) acclaimed sell-out tour The Back DAVID BADDIEL HITS THE ROAD WITH FAME: NOT THE MUSICAL Following a critically-acclaimed sold-out return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe after 15 years away from stand-up, and with four dates already announced at London's Southbank Centre - DAVID BADDIEL will take his STAR OF CHANNEL 4 SITCOM MAN DOWN - ROISIN CONATY EMBARKS ON FIRST UK TOUR LIFEHUNTER THIS AUTUMN Edinburgh Comedy Newcomer Award winner and star of brand new Channel 4 sitcom Man Down ROISIN CONATY takes her solo show Lifehunter on her first ever UK tour this autumn. Lifehunter explores how everyone in life is A BRAND NEW SITCOM FOR CHANNEL 4 THIS AUTUMN GREG DAVIES, acclaimed stand-up comedian, Mr Gilbert in the hit TV series and film The Inbetweeners, and BAFTA-nominated star of Cuckoo, writes and stars in the new series which also features 2010 Edinburgh Comedy DAVE GORMAN GETS STRAIGHT TO THE POINT*... (*THE POWERPOINT) - 2014 TOUR ANNOUNCED It was announced today (25 September 2013) that DAVE GORMAN is set to embark on brand new tour, Dave Gorman Gets Straight To The Point * ... ( * The PowerPoint) in autumn 2014, playing some of the biggest theatres PEACOCK AND GAMBLE ANNOUNCE UK TOUR After inexplicably failing to get famous in the UK for three years, triple Chortle Award nominees (2011, 2012, 2013) PEACOCK & GAMBLE have even more inexplicably become all famous in Japan. Yes! No messing - A NEW DOCUMENTARY SERIES FOR BBC TWO FOLLOWING THE UK’S BIGGEST MOBILE CRANE HIRE COMPANY The Crane Gang follows drivers, technicians and management at Ainscough, the biggest mobile crane hire company in Britain. The show will follow a number of key personnel in a make-or-break year for the business who FRANK SKINNER ANNOUNCES BRAND NEW LIVE SHOW: MAN IN A SUIT - 9 PERFORMANCES ONLY FRANK SKINNER today announced a brand new stand-up show with a run of performances at London’s Soho Theatre this November. Man In a Suit will give fans a unique opportunity to catch the comedy legend in an ALEX HORNE TO EMBARK ON UK TOUR On the 25th anniversary of his first live show, and after a sell-out run at the 2013 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the cage-fighting Capricorn comedian ALEX HORNE presents his brand new UK tour Lies, with six FOSTER'S EDINBURGH COMEDY AWARD NOMINEE CARL DONNELLY EMBARKS ON FIRST EVER UK TOUR CARL DONNELLY will embark on his first ever national tour this October with the 2013 Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Award nominated Now That’s What I Carl Donnelly! Volume V. Sartorially resplendent in Cuban heels US COMEDIAN & MUSICIAN REGGIE WATTS PERFORMS AT LONDON’S SOUTHBANK CENTRE REGGIE WATTS, internationally renowned vocalist / beat boxer / musician / comedian / improviser, is set to perform in the Queen Elizabeth Hall at London’s Southbank Centre on 8th and 9th October. REGGIE entirely NEW TO CHANNEL 4 FROM SEPTEMBER 18TH: THE THREE DAY NANNY Episode 1/4, Wednesday 18th September, 8pm, Channel 4 The Three Day Nanny will follow professional nanny, KATHRYN MEWES, as she answers the cries for help from desperate parents. Across this new series, NANNY DAVE GORMAN'S NEW TV SERIES TAKING A MISCHIEVOUS LOOK AT MODERN LIFE Starts on Tuesday 17th September 2013 at 10pm on Dave DAVE GORMAN thinks modern life is good...ish. However, tired of endlessly being sold stuff he doesn't need, feeling manipulated by the media and harassed by WITTANK EXTRA DATE ANNOUNCED FOR EDINBURGH FESTIVAL FRINGE Stars of BBC Three’s Live at the Electric and BBC Radio 4’s Sketchorama, eminently silly sketch outfit WITTANK have announced an additional performance of their brand-new show The School at the Edinburgh THE RETURN OF GRUMPY OLD WOMEN - FIFTY SHADES OF BEIGE The Grumpies are back! From the original creators comes a brand new live show, here to knock some sense back into the nation. Perrier Award winning comedian, writer and original star of Grumpy Old Women JENNY ECLAIR BADDIEL EXTENDS RUN AT EDINBURGH FESTIVAL "insightful, illuminating and extremely funny," Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard "thoughtful, funny and even rather touching," Dominic Maxwell, The Times “Very funny and thought-provoking,” Veronica Lee, Daily PEACOCK & GAMBLE - HEART-THROBS: EXTRA SHOWS ANNOUNCED Due to phenomenal demand, Triple Chortle Award nominees PEACOCK & GAMBLE announce extra performances of their brand-new show Heart-throbs at the 2013 Edinburgh Festival. The extra late-night shows, every Friday RUSSELL HOWARD TO RECORD NEW DVD AT HOMECOMING GIGS AS PART OF WORLD TOUR RUSSELL HOWARD announces two very special dates for his 2014 Wonderbox world tour, which will see the Bristolian return to his hometown, performing for two nights and recording his brand new DVD, at the Bristol THE HORNE SECTION: LIVE IN A COW - EXTRA SHOWS ANNOUNCED Due to phenomenal demand, THE HORNE SECTION have announced extra performances of their barnstorming new show this Friday and Saturday and on every subsequent Friday throughout the Fringe. Taking place at midnight, GARETH RICHARDS GOES ELECTRIC: EXTRA DATES ADDED TO THE FIRST EVER SHAZAMABLE FRINGE SHOW Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer nominee GARETH RICHARDS announces extra performances of his show Gareth Goes Electric at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, every Friday and Saturday evening at 9.30pm in IAIN STIRLING AT HOME Edinburgh-born, BAFTA-nominated comic IAIN STIRLING announces extra performances of his brand new show At Home every Thursday and Friday night from August 1st throughout the 2013 Festival Fringe. After great demand GABBY LOGAN, FRANK SKINNER, MICKY FLANAGAN AND JAMELIA TEAM UP FOR A NEW SATURDAY NIGHT SHOW ON BBC ONE THIS SUMMER Hosted by Gabby Logan and flanked by multi-award-winning comedians, FRANK SKINNER and MICKY FLANAGAN, I Love My Country is a new high-energy comedy-entertainment show for Saturday evening. The brand new series will HIT THE ROAD MACK - LEE MACK TO TOUR IN 2014 It was announced today (24 July 2013) that LEE MACK is set to embark on brand new tour, Hit The Road Mack in autumn 2014, playing some of the biggest theatres in the country. Hit The Road Mack will be LEE’s first EDINBURGH 2013: LEE NELSON LEE NELSON brings his brand new live show to Edinburgh Festival Fringe this August for a special limited run. The show sees the irrepressible South London lad host a jam-packed night of unmissable entertainment, EDINBURGH 2013: ROB DELANEY - LIVE America’s Number One Funniest Twitter Comic performs at Edinburgh Festival Fringe for Two Nights Only ROB DELANEY comes to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for two nights only, seeing him perform at the festival for EDINBURGH 2013: TOM CRAINE - CRYING ON A WALTZER Award-winning stand-up comedian, writer, and one third of critically acclaimed sketch group JIGSAW, TOM CRAINE is set to return to Edinburgh this August with his new solo show, Crying on a Waltzer. TOM will discuss EDINBURGH 2013: PAUL MCCAFFREY - NAME IN LIGHTS Join PAUL MCCAFFREY star of Impractical Jokers (BBC Three) as he returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this August with his best hour of stand up yet, Name in Lights. With all new material, let PAUL charm the EDINBURGH 2013: JIMMY MCGHIE - DELUSIONS OF CANDOUR Fresh from being nominated for Best International Act at the Perth Comedy Festival, JIMMY MCGHIE is back in Edinburgh this August after bunking off last year. JIMMY returns to the Fringe with more confessional, EDINBURGH 2013: CARL DONNELLY - NOW THAT'S WHAT I CARL DONNELLY! VOLUME V Join Edinburgh Comedy Award Nominee CARL DONNELLY for a brand new collection of wry observations on current affairs and how we should all be dealing with them. In case the last twelve months have passed you by EDINBURGH 2013: WITTANK PRESENTS THE SCHOOL Stars of BBC Three’s Live at the Electric and BBC Radio 4’s Sketchorama, eminently silly sketch outfit WITTANK invite you into the charmingly warped world of The School; a deranged and archaic institution with a EDINBURGH 2013: IAIN STIRLING - AT HOME IAIN STIRLING is a BAFTA-nominated presenter, a Chortle-nominated comedian and he is home. Now, having bought a house with his girlfriend, IAIN explores the dichotomy of emotions you experience when making a EDINBURGH 2013: THE COMEDY ZONE The Fringe’s longest-running and most prestigious showcase is back for its 23rd year. The Comedy Zone has helped launch the careers of RUSSELL HOWARD, AL MURRAY, RUSSELL KANE, DAVE GORMAN, FRANKIE BOYLE, HARRY EDINBURGH 2013: JENNY ECLAIR - ECLAIRIOUS JENNY is enormously pleased to be back in Edinburgh, despite the fact that doing stand-up gives her varicose veins and the damp makes her fungal, all support is gratefully received. ECLAIR has been doing Edinburgh EDINBURGH 2013: THE POLITICAL PARTY WITH MATT FORDE Labour-advisor turned stand-up comedian MATT FORDE brings The Political Party to the 2013 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. A raucous hour of biting satire, this is a real celebration of politics and its big EDINBURGH 2013: MARK SMITH - THE MOST ASTONISHING NAME IN COMEDY Elderly child MARK SMITH (Russell Howard’s Good News BBC Three, Nick Helm's Heavy Entertainment BBC Three and RUSSELL KANE tour support) presents his hotly anticipated debut stand up hour at the Edinburgh Festival EDINBURGH 2013: HELEN O'BRIEN - BRONAGH'S BIG WEEKEND It’s 1987. Bronagh is becoming a teenager, competing in the Irish Dancing Championships and being a bridesmaid at her cousin’s wedding. This is a one-woman comedy show about awkward names, ra-ra skirts, bad EDINBURGH 2013: RUSSELL KANE - SMALLNESS What is it with us and smallness? We Brits love it - being tiny but fierce, close but distant. RUSSELL feels the same way and he returns with this new blisteringly big-small show. Watch him ejaculate thoughts EDINBURGH 2013: RICHARD HERRING - WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE! 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 EDINBURGH 2013: PEACOCK & GAMBLE - HEART-THROBS After inexplicably failing to get famous in the UK for three years, triple Chortle Award nominees (2011, 2012, 2013) PEACOCK AND GAMBLE have even more inexplicably become all famous in Japan. Yes! No messing - your EDINBURGH 2013: JIGSAW - JIGGLE IT After two sell-out runs at Edinburgh Festival, regular performances on Live At The Electric (BBC Three) and their own BBC Radio 4 series, DAN ANTOPOLSKI (triple Perrier Award nominee), TOM CRAINE (used to date NAT) EDINBURGH 2013: THE HORNE SECTION - LIVE IN A COW Following a third consecutive sell-out run at the 2012 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, ALEX HORNE and THE HORNE SECTION roll into Edinburgh with a brand new barnstorming show, bringing their unique mix of stand up, EDINBURGH 2013: DAVID BADDIEL - FAME: NOT THE MUSICAL Fame: we’re obsessed with it, but who will talk honestly about what it’s really like? DAVID BADDIEL, in his first full Edinburgh show for 15 years, does. From accidentally stealing the spotlight at Russell EDINBURGH 2013: PHIL WANG - ANTI-HERO Winner of the Chortle Student Comedian of the Year Award, Comedy Central’s Funniest Student Award and former President of the Cambridge Footlights, PHIL WANG presents his first grown-up hour of stand-up comedy at EDINBURGH 2013: THE HORNE SECTION'S FAMILY BASH Five ridiculously talented musicians, one award-winning comedian and an audience of all ages - this is going to be fun. Expect toe-tapping tunes, stupid jokes and some general melodious chaos as the Horne Section EDINBURGH 2013: GRAINNE MAGUIRE - ONE HOUR ALL NIGHT ELECTION SPECIAL GRÁINNE MAGUIRE returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with her brand new show One Hour All Night Election Special. Sad there’s no big election this year? GRÁINNE is too. She plans on counteracting this by EDINBURGH 2013: GARETH RICHARDS - GARETH GOES ELECTRIC Join Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer nominee GARETH RICHARDS, for his brand new show of songs and jokes at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe performed on his incredible new electric instrument, EDINBURGH 2013: CHRIS RAMSEY - FEELING LUCKY Star of BBC Two’s sitcom Hebburn, series regular on Celebrity Juice (ITV2), and Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee CHRIS RAMSEY will be returning to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for three consecutive nights at the EDINBURGH 2013: CARL HUTCHINSON - ALL THE RAGE CARL HUTCHINSON, Amused Moose Best Show Nominee 2012 and CHRIS RAMSEY’s tour support, will be at the Festival this August with his second hour of stand-up, showcasing his own brand of effortlessly charming but EDINBURGH 2013: ALEX HORNE - LIES On the 25th anniversary of his first Festival show, the cage-fighting Capricorn comedian ALEX HORNE presents his brand new show Lies at the 2013 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. ALEX has done a lot of things in his RICHARD HERRING - ME1 VS ME2 SNOOKER PODCAST GOES LIVE AT 2013 EDINBURGH FESTIVAL FRINGE RICHARD HERRING announces the first ever LIVE frame of cult/irritating snooker podcast Me1 vs Me 2. Further to his hugely successful Leicester Square Theatre and Edinburgh podcasts, and his hotly anticipated live CHRIS RAMSEY: THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN ON SATURDAY MORNING TELEVISION - THREE LONDON DATES ANNOUNCED Star of BBC Two’s sitcom Hebburn, series regular on Celebrity Juice (ITV2), and Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee CHRIS RAMSEY has added three extra dates to his brand new UK stand-up tour - The Most Dangerous Man on LAST CHANCE TO SEE THE GUV’NOR IN LONDON AL MURRAY, THE PUB LANDLORD calls last orders in London on his critically-acclaimed, twice-extended, sell-out tour The Only Way Is Epic, performing the show at Shepherd’s Bush Empire for the last time this autumn. BBC COMMISSIONS HEIR HUNTERS FOR EIGHTH SERIES The BBC has commissioned its eighth series of successful BBC Daytime genealogy and social history series ‘Heir Hunters’. It was commissioned by BBC Daytime Controller Damian Kavanagh and Executive Producer RUSSELL HOWARD ANNOUNCES INTERNATIONAL DATES AFTER HUGE ONLINE DEMAND FROM FANS RUSSELL HOWARD is set to extend his 2014 Wonderbox tour across the world following over 17,000 suggestions from his fans after he asked them via Facebook where they’d most like to see him perform. The extra dates RICHARD HERRING ANNOUNCES 2013 TOUR: WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE! After debuting his brand new show We’re All Going to Die! at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, RICHARD HERRING will embark upon a nationwide tour this autumn, kicking off with a run of six consecutive JO JOYNER, CHRIS ADDISON, CHARLES EDWARDS AND ALUN COCHRANE, ANNOUNCED AS CAST OF SKY LIVING’S NEW COMEDY SERIES “TRYING AGAIN” • Series co-created by Emmy© award-nominated and Oscar© nominated writer Simon Blackwell and actor and comedian Chris Addison • 8 x 30 series exclusive to Sky Living HD • Production to begin summer LIVE AT THE ELECTRIC - RUSSELL KANE RETURNS TO HOST A SECOND SERIES OF THE HIT BBC THREE SHOW “Russell Kane hosts the show we’ve all been crying out for” Jack Seale, Radio Times Live at the Electric returns to BBC Three for a brand new series this July. Celebrating the diversity of the UK’s USA’S NUMBER 1 PODCASTING COMEDIAN PAUL F. TOMPKINS ANNOUNCES EXTRA DATES IN LONDON “Tompkins manages to be impressively slick but delightfully dry. He’s as good as he looks.” ★★★★ Dominic Maxwell, The Times “A true pro trading in classic comedy, with a light touch and a RUSSELL KANE ANNOUNCES BRAND NEW TOUR FOR 2013 The multi-award winning comedian, acclaimed author and star of Live at the Electric and Unzipped RUSSELL KANE announces a brand new UK and Ireland stand-up tour for 2013. Smallness follows on from a very special, AL MURRAY, THE PUB LANDLORD - THE ONLY WAY IS EPIC EXTENDED INTO AUTUMN 2013 AL MURRAY, THE PUB LANDLORD is set to extend his critically-acclaimed tour for the second time, into autumn 2013 by a further 16 dates. This follows a sell-out Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and sell-out autumn and LEE NELSON - ANNOUNCES EXTRA DATES TO HIS STAND-UP TOUR Due to phenomenal demand, additional dates have now been added to the brand new nationwide stand-up tour - LEE NELSON - bringing the total number of dates to 56 and adding a further 16,000 tickets. Tickets are on 7 DAY SUNDAY RECOMMISSIONED AS 7 DAY SATURDAY 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 RUSSELL HOWARD ADDS EXTRA DATES 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 HERESY RETURNS FOR A NINTH SERIES ON BBC RADIO 4 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 AVALON ANNOUNCE EDINBURGH FESTIVAL FRINGE LINE-UP FOR 2013 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 WONDERBOX: RUSSELL HOWARD TO TOUR IN 2014 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 CRAIG CAMPBELL EMBARKS ON BRAND NEW AUTUMN TOUR: THRILLING MIC HUNT 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 CHRIS RAMSEY: THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN ON SATURDAY MORNING TELEVISION TICKETS ON SALE FRIDAY 19TH APRIL AT 9AM 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 RICHARD HERRING ANNOUNCES 2013 EDINBURGH FRINGE FESTIVAL SHOW: WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE! 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 JASON BENT SET TO TOUR THIS SPRING 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 DAVE GORMAN HOSTS NEW TV SERIES TAKING A MISCHIEVOUS LOOK AT MODERN LIFE 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 GREG DAVIES EXTENDS TOUR FOR A THIRD TIME WITH FOUR DATES AT LONDON’S SOUTHBANK CENTRE 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 RUSSELL HOWARD'S GOOD NEWS RETURNS FOR A BRAND NEW SERIES ON THURSDAY 25TH APRIL “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 LEE MACK'S AWARD-WINNING NOT GOING OUT: BRAND NEW SERIES RETURNS TO BBC ONE ON FRIDAY 5TH APRIL “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 LEE NELSON'S WELL FUNNY PEOPLE: BRAND NEW CHARACTER COMEDY SERIES FOR BBC THREE “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 BBC RADIO 4 COMMISSION PILOT FROM COMEDY DUO PEACOCK & GAMBLE 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 GREG DAVIES - THE BACK OF MY MUM'S HEAD - EXTENDS TOUR INTO 2013 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 LAST CHANCE TO SEE CRAIG CAMPBELL LIVE AT LONDON’S BLOOMSBURY THEATRE ON 10TH MARCH 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 CHRIS RAMSEY: THIRD LONDON DATE ADDED 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? CHRIS ADDISON: THE TIME IS NOW, AGAIN EXTRA LONDON DATE ADDED 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), MATT FORDE BRINGS HIS POLITICAL PARTY TO THE ST JAMES THEATRE THIS JANUARY 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 LEE NELSON - BRAND NEW STAND-UP TOUR FOR SPRING 2013 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 ARG JOINS AVALON MANAGEMENT GROUP 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 CHRIS ADDISON: THE TIME IS NOW, AGAIN EXTENDED INTO 2013 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, IAIN STIRLING BRINGS HIS DEBUT SHOW 'HAPPY TO BE THE CLOWN?' TO THE SOHO THEATRE 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 CHRIS RAMSEY ADDS EXTRA DATES: LONDON, SHEFFIELD AND NEWCASTLE 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 DAVID WALLIAMS, FRANK SKINNER & MICKY FLANAGAN TEAM UP FOR A NEW SATURDAY NIGHT SHOW ON BBC ONE 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 USA’S NUMBER 1 PODCASTING COMEDIAN PAUL F.TOMPKINS TO PLAY UK FOR THE FIRST TIME 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 WITTANK - LONDON DATES ADDED TO THEIR FIRST NATIONAL TOUR 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 HARRY HILL'S CREAM OF TV BURP - DVD RELEASED 26TH NOVEMBER “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 CHRIS RAMSEY - FEELING LUCKY: EXTRA LONDON DATE ADDED AND NATIONAL TOUR EXTENSION INTO 2013 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 ROISIN CONATY BRINGS LIFEHUNTER TO THE SOHO THEATRE 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. THE ONLY WAY IS EPIC RELEASED ON DVD 26TH NOVEMBER 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 LIVING WITH MOTHER - SECOND SERIES OF CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED SHOW RETURNS TO BBC RADIO 4 FROM 31ST OCTOBER 2012 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, GREG DAVIES ANNOUNCES EXTRA DATE AT LONDON’S HAMMERSMITH APOLLO 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 LEE NELSON EXTRA DATES ADDED TO STAND-UP TOUR 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 USA’S NUMBER ONE TWITTER COMEDIAN ROB DELANEY ANNOUNCES EXTRA LONDON DATE 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 THE HORNE SECTION PERFORM A LIMITED RUN AT THE SOUTHBANK CENTRE THIS OCTOBER "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 AL MURRAY, THE PUB LANDLORD - THE ONLY WAY IS EPIC TOUR EXTENDED INTO SPRING 2013 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 WITTANK FIRST NATIONAL TOUR FOR AUTUMN 2012 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 RICHARD HERRING EMBARKS ON BRAND NEW AUTUMN TOUR - TALKING COCK: THE SECOND COMING 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 LEE NELSON LIVE DVD RELEASED ON 19TH NOVEMBER 2012 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 PEACOCK & GAMBLE DON'T WANT TO BE ON TELLY ANYWAY - BRAND NEW STAND UP TOUR FOR AUTUMN 2012 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 AVALON AUTUMN 2012 LINE-UP 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 7 DAY SUNDAY RETURNS TO RADIO 5 LIVE FROM SUNDAY 9TH SEPTEMBER 2012 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 GREG DAVIES LIVE: FIRING CHEESEBALLS AT A DOG TO AIR ON BBC THREE ON THE 14TH SEPTEMBER AT 9PM 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 FAKE OR FORTUNE SERIES 2 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 NEW REVOLUTIONARY COMEDY RICHARD HERRING IS DEVELOPING FOR BBC TV 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 ‘RUSSELL KANE: SMOKESCREENS & CASTLES’ TO AIR ON BBC THREE 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 ‘WELL FUNNY PEOPLE’ (W/T) – A NEW CHARACTER COMEDY SHOW FROM LEE NELSON CREATOR SIMON BRODKIN FOR BBC THREE 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 RUSSELL HOWARD'S GOOD NEWS - RELEASED ON DVD “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 EDINBURGH COMEDY NOMINEES KRISTEN SCHAAL AND KURT BRAUNOHLER TO DEVELOP SPOOF CHAT SHOW SPEAK EASY FOR BBC THREE 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 RUSSELL HOWARD'S GOOD NEWS RETURNS TO BBC THREE THIS AUTUMN “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 EDINBURGH 2012: AL MURRAY THE PUB LANDLORD- THE GUV'S OLYMPIC PUB QUIZ 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 EDINBURGH 2012: AL MURRAY THE PUB LANDLORD- THE ONLY WAY IS EPIC 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 EDINBURGH 2012: CHRIS RAMSEY- FEELING LUCKY 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 EDINBURGH 2012: CARL DONNELLY- DIFFERENT GRAVY 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 EDINBURGH 2012: WITTANK 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 EDINBURGH 2012: TOM DEACON- DEACONATOR 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 EDINBURGH 2012: RUSSELL KANE- POSTURING DELIVERY 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 EDINBURGH 2012: ROISIN CONATY- LIFEHUNTER 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. EDINBURGH 2012: RICHARD HERRING- TALKING COCK: THE SECOND COMING 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 EDINBURGH 2012: PEACOCK AND GAMBLE- PEACOCK AND GAMBLE DON'T WANT TO BE ON TELLY ANYWAY “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 EDINBURGH 2012: PAUL MCCAFFREY- PILLS 'N' THRILLS AND BELLYLAUGHS 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, EDINBURGH 2012: NAZ OSMANOGLU - OTTOMAN WITHOUT AN EMPIRE 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 EDINBURGH 2012: MATT FORDE- EYES TO THE RIGHT, NOSE TO THE LEFT 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 EDINBURGH 2012: LIVE AT THE ELECTRIC- LIVE AT THE FRINGE 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 EDINBURGH 2012: JIGSAW 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 EDINBURGH 2012: JARLATH REGAN- THE AUDACITY OF HOPE AND THE INSPIRATIONAL STUPIDITY OF PERSEVERANCE “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 EDINBURGH 2012: IAIN STIRLING- HAPPY TO BE THE CLOWN 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 EDINBURGH 2012: THE HORNE SECTION- LIVE AT THE GRAND 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 EDINBURGH 2012: HELEN KEEN - ROBOT WOMAN OF TOMORROW 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 EDINBURGH 2012: GRÁINNE MAGUIRE- WHERE ARE ALL THE FUN PLACES AND ARE LOTS OF PEOPLE THERE HAVING BETTER FUN? 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 EDINBURGH 2012: GARETH RICHARDS- INTROVERT: NEVER BEEN TO DISNEYLAND 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 EDINBURGH 2012: FRAN MOULDS-SIGNIFICANT HUMAN ERROR 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 EDINBURGH 2012: THE COMEDY ZONE 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 USA’S NUMBER ONE TWITTER COMEDIAN ROB DELANEY SELLS OUT UK LONDON RUN IN ONE HOUR FROM A SINGLE TWEET 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 ‘I LOVE MY COUNTRY’ A NEW BBC PEAK-TIME PILOT TEAMING UP GREG DAVIES, FRANK SKINNER & DAVID WALLIAMS 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 ‘THE BUGLE’ REACHES ITS 200TH EPISODE 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 RUSSELL KANE: AUTUMN TOUR ANNOUNCEMENT 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 CHRIS RAMSEY BRAND NEW UK TOUR ANNOUNCED - FEELING LUCKY 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 YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS! A NEW ITV PEAK-TIME SERIES HOSTED BY ALISTAIR MCGOWAN FROM SATURDAY 2ND JUNE 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, LIVE AT THE ELECTRIC - NEW COMEDY SHOW ON BBC THREE FROM MAY 31ST 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 100 DAYS TO GO UNTIL EDINBURGH FESTIVAL FRINGE 2012 AVALON ANNOUNCE LINE-UP 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 NOT GOING OUT SERIES 5 DVD RELEASED 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 CRAIG CAMPBELL: STAND-UP TOUR EXTENDED INTO 2012 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 HELEN O'BRIEN - BRONAGH'S BIG WEEKEND "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 RUSSELL HOWARD'S GOOD NEWS RETURNS TO BBC THREE IN NEW PRIMETIME SLOT “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 NOT GOING OUT SERIES 5 RETURNS TO BBC ONE IN WEEK 15 “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 GREG DAVIES THE BACK OF MY MUM'S HEAD - BRAND NEW STAND-UP TOUR FOR AUTUMN 2012 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 MR BLUE SKY RETURNS TO BBC RADIO 4 FOR A SECOND SERIES FROM 9TH APRIL 2012 “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 LEE NELSON LIVE STAND-UP TOUR EXTENDED FOR A SECOND TIME INTO AUTUMN 2012 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, JENNY ECLAIR: ECLAIRIOUS 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 ANDY ZALTZMAN – ARMCHAIR REVOLUTIONARY 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 AL MURRAY THE PUB LANDLORD THE ONLY WAY IS EPIC 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 RUSSELL HOWARD ANNOUNCES CHARITY NIGHTS 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 ALEX HORNE: SEVEN YEARS IN THE BATHROOM 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 JAMIE ISAACS JOINS AVALON TELEVISION 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 ‘YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS!’ A NEW ITV SERIES HOSTED BY ALISTAIR MCGOWAN 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 ROISIN CONATY BRINGS DESTINY'S DICKHEAD TO THE SOHO THEATRE 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) THE BUGLE GOES INDEPENDENT - NEW BEGINNING FOR LEADING SATIRICAL PODCAST 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 DAVE GORMAN'S POWERPOINT PRESENTATION EXTENDED INTO SPRING 2012 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 CHRIS RAMSEY EMBARKS ON DEBUT UK TOUR ★★★★ Chortle ★★★★ The Telegraph ★★★★ Evening Standard ★★★★ Arts Desk ★★★★★ Broadway Baby ★★★★★ New Current ★★★★Fringe Guru ★★★★ Informed 7 DAY SUNDAY RETURNS TO BBC RADIO 5 LIVE FROM 8TH JANUARY 2012 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 ‘LEE MACK: GOING OUT’ TO AIR ON BBC ONE 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 BRITISH COMEDY SHORT WINS PLACE AT SUNDANCE 2012 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 THAT SUNDAY NIGHT SHOW - BRAND NEW SERIES STARTS 8TH JANUARY, 10.00PM ON ITV1 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 THREE MEN GO TO NEW ENGLAND 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 ROUND 8 FOR HERESY ON BBC RADIO 4 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 AVALON ANNOUNCES NEW ‘CREATIVE HUB’ IN SCOTLAND 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 LEE NELSON STAND-UP TOUR EXTENDED INTO SPRING 2012 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 AL MURRAY, THE PUB LANDLORD ANNOUNCES FESTIVE LINE UP 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 HARRY HILL’S TV BURP - THE BEST BITS DVD 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 RICHARD HERRING BRINGS WHAT IS LOVE, ANYWAY? TO LONDON'S SOHO THEATRE 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, FRANK SKINNER AND FRIENDS 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 TV BURP GOES TO CARTOON NETWORK 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 DON'T START - RECOMMISSIONED FOR A SECOND SERIES FOR BBC RADIO 4 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 FRANK SKINNER ON GEORGE FORMBY 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 FRANK SKINNER'S OPINIONATED RETURNS TO BBC TWO ON THURSDAY 10TH NOVEMBER AT 10PM “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 HEIR HUNTERS - COMING SOON TO BBC TWO 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 RUSSELL HOWARD'S GOOD NEWS SERIES 5 RETURNS TO BBC THREE 27TH OCTOBER 10.30PM 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 GREG DAVIES DEBUT STAND-UP DVD RELEASED 14TH NOVEMBER 2011 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 DAVE GORMAN'S POWERPOINT PRESENTATION UK TOUR 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 HEIR HUNTERS GOES PRIMETIME 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 RUSSELL KANE SMOKESCREENS & CASTLES DEBUT LIVE STAND UP DVD RELEASED ON 7TH NOVEMBER ★★★★★ The Times ★★★★★ Daily Telegraph ★★★★★ The Sunday Times ★★★★★ Mirror Online ★★★★★ Three Weeks ★★★★★ Fest ★★★★★Time Out Live CHRIS ADDISON LIVE – AVAILABLE ON DVD FOR THE FIRST TIME ON THE 14TH NOVEMBER 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 HARRY HILL'S TV BURP RETURNS TO ITV1 - 8TH OCTOBER 2011 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 AVALON - TELEVISION IN AUTUMN 2011 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 RUSSELL HOWARD LIVE: RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW - BRAND NEW STAND-UP DVD RELEASED 14TH NOVEMBER 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 DON'T START - BRAND NEW COMEDY DRAMA AIRS ON BBC RADIO 4 FROM 5TH OCTOBER 2011 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 THAT SUNDAY NIGHT SHOW - SECOND SERIES RETURN 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 MISSING MILLIONS 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 RUSSELL KANE: BRAND NEW NATIONWIDE TOUR 'MANSCAPING' “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 GRUMPY GUIDE TO DRIVING 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 SHOW & TELL - BRAND NEW SERIES FOR E4 FROM 15TH SEPTEMBER 2011 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 LEE NELSON'S WELL GOOD SHOW RETURNS FOR A SECOND SERIES THIS AUGUST “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 THE GRUMPY GUIDE TO FOOD 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 RUSSELL KANE'S WHISTLE STOP TOUR STARTS 6TH AUGUST ON BBC RADIO 2 AT 10PM 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 BEST OF SERIES ONE: JOHN OLIVER'S NEW YORK STAND-UP SHOW “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 EDINBURGH 2011: TOM DEACON - 'CAN I BE HONEST?' 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 EDINBURGH 2011: STEVE HALL - 'STEVE HALL'S VERY STILL LIFE' 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 EDINBURGH 2011: RUSSELL KANE - 'MANSCAPING' 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 EDINBURGH 2011: ROISIN CONATY - 'DESTINY'S DICKHEAD' 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 EDINBURGH 2011: ROB DEERING - 'THE ROB DEERING EXPERIENCE' & 'BEAT THIS' 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 EDINBURGH 2011: RICHARD HERRING - 'WHAT IS LOVE, ANYWAY?' “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 EDINBURGH 2011: RAY PEACOCK & ED GAMBLE - 'PEACOCK & GAMBLE PODCAST LIVE' 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 EDINBURGH 2011: RAY PEACOCK & ED GAMBLE - 'EMERGENCY BROADCAST' 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 EDINBURGH 2011: NAZ OSMANOGLU - '1000 PER CENT AWESOME' 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% EDINBURGH 2011: MATT FORDE - 'DISHONOURABLE MEMBER' 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 EDINBURGH 2011: KRISTEN SCHAAL & KURT BRAUNOHLER - 'HOT TUB WITH KURT AND KRISTEN' 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 EDINBURGH 2011: JIMMY MCGHIE - 'ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE' 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, EDINBURGH 2011: HARI KONDABOLU, IAIN STIRLING, PAUL CURRIE & PHIL WANG - 'COMEDY ZONE' 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 EDINBURGH 2011: GARETH RICHARDS - ' IT'S NOT THE END OF THE WORLD ' 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 EDINBURGH 2011: EMILY WATSON HOWES - 'SEMINAR' 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 EDINBURGH 2011: EMILY WATSON HOWES - 'THE BABY DIARY' 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 EDINBURGH 2011: DAVE GORMAN - ' DAVE GORMAN'S POWERPOINT PRESENTATION ' 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 EDINBURGH 2011: DAN ANTOPOLSKI, NAT LUURTSEMA, TOM CRANE - 'JIGSAW' 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 EDINBURGH 2011: CHRIS RAMSEY - 'OFFERMATION' 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 EDINBURGH 2011: ALEX HORNE - 'TASKMASTER II' 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 EDINBURGH 2011: ALEX HORNE - 'SEVEN YEARS IN THE BATHROOM' 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 EDINBURGH 2011: AL MURRAY - 'COMPETE FOR THE MEAT' & 'COMPETE FOR THE MEAT LATE NIGHT' 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 EDINBURGH 2011: AHIR SHAH - 'ASTROLOGY' 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 NOT GOING OUT - GOING TO JAPAN 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 LEE NELSON'S WELL GOOD SHOW. SERIES 1 RELEASED ON DVD! “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 JOE WILKINSON: MY MUM'S CALLED STELLA AND MY DAD'S CALLED BRIAN AUTUMN 2011 TOUR ANNOUNCED 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 CRAIG CAMPBELL: STAND-UP TOUR EXTENDED INTO WINTER 2011 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 THREE MEN GO TO VENICE 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 AVALON'S EDINBURGH FESTIVAL FRINGE LINE-UP 2011 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 DAVE GORMAN'S POWERPOINT PRESENTATION 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 BBC ORDERS UP TWO MORE SERIES OF HIT COMEDY NOT GOING OUT FROM AVALON TELEVISION 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 RUSSELL HOWARD: RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW - ARENA TOUR EXTENDED BY A FURTHER 6 DATES 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 MR BLUE SKY BRAND NEW COMEDY SERIES FOR BBC RADIO 4 FROM 16TH MAY 2011 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 AL MURRAY’S COMPETE FOR THE MEAT - NEW FOR DAVE FROM THE 19TH MAY 2011 AT 9PM 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 CHRIS ADDISON - THE TIME IS NOW, AGAIN - NEW STAND-UP TOUR ANNOUNCED FOR 2011 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 THE GRUMPY GUIDE TO WORK 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, LIVING WITH MOTHER - BRAND NEW SERIES FOR BBC RADIO 4 FROM 6TH APRIL 2011 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 EDINBURGH COMEDY AWARD WINNER RUSSELL KANE ANNOUNCES BRAND NEW TOUR 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 LEE NELSON LIVE 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 RUSSELL HOWARD'S GOOD NEWS RETURNS TO BBC THREE ON 24 MARCH 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 DAVE COMMISSIONS AVALON TELEVISION TO CREATE NEW PUB QUIZ SHOW WITH AL MURRAY 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 SALES OF LIBERTY BELL’S “THE LAKES ON A PLATE” SERVED UP IN CANADA AND NEW ZEALAND 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 FRANK SKINNER’S OPINIONATED RETURNS TO BBC TWO SPRING 2011 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 RUSSELL HOWARD RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW ARENA TOUR - TWICE EXTENDED 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 AL MURRAY, THE PUB LANDLORD EXTENDS 'BARREL OF FUN' INTO SPRING 2011 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 SERIES FOUR OF LEE MACK'S MULTI-AWARD-WINNING 'NOT GOING OUT' RELEASED ON DVD, HOTLY FOLLOWING ITS RECORD RATINGS SUCCESS 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 NOT GOING OUT ‘GOES OUT’ IN SCANDINAVIA 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. BBC ONE’S RATINGS HIT ‘HEIR HUNTERS’ SOLD TO AUSTRALIA’S FOXTEL HISTORY CHANNEL 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 CRAIG CAMPBELL EMBARKS ON DEBUT UK TOUR 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 GREG DAVIES - STAND-UP TOUR EXTENDED INTO SPRING 2011 ★★★★★ Mail on Sunday ★★★★★ The Independent ★★★★★ Sunday Telegraph ★★★★★ Chortle ★★★★★ Time Out Live ★★★★★ British Comedy Guide ★★★★★ The Arts STEVE WILLIAMS: STAND UP STORYTELLER MAN 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 RUSSELL HOWARD DINGLEDODIES - MAKES TV DEBUTS ON BBC 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 THAT SUNDAY NIGHT SHOW - NEW TO ITV FOR JANUARY 2011 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 LEE MACK'S NOT GOING OUT RETURNS TO BBC1: BRAND NEW SERIES STARTS JANUARY (WEEK 1) 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 RUSSELL HOWARD'S GOOD NEWS - RETURN FOR TWO MORE SERIES 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 RICHARD HERRING - CHRIST ON A BIKE THE SECOND COMING 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 STAND-UP TOUR RESCHEDULED FOLLOWING I’M A CELEBRITY GET ME OUT OF HERE! 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, DAVID BADDIEL - DIRECTORIAL DEBUT - THE NORRIS MCWHIRTER CHRONICLES 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 THREE MEN GO TO SCOTLAND 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 ROISIN CONATY BRINGS HER AWARD-WINNING SHOW TO LONDON'S SOHO THEATRE “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 AL MURRAY’S GERMAN ADVENTURE – A TWO PART SERIES FOR BBC FOUR 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 RUSSELL HOWARD'S 2011 ARENA TOUR EXTENDED BY 7 DATES 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 ‘AL MURRAY, THE PUB LANDLORD – BARREL OF FUN LIVE’ RELEASED ON DVD 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 DON'T HIT MY MUM 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 LEE NELSON'S WELL GOOD SHOW SERIES ONE DVD - 29TH NOVEMBER “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 LEE NELSON'S WELL GOOD TOUR 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 'DAVE GORMAN: STAND-UP. LIVE' DVD RELEASED 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 RUSSELL HOWARD'S GOOD NEWS SERIES ONE DVD 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 ‘LEE MACK: GOING OUT’ DVD TO BE RELEASED ON 22ND NOVEMBER 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 HARRY HILL'S FIRST EVER COMEDY ALBUM - FUNNY TIMES - RELEASED 22ND NOVEMBER 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 HARRY HILL'S TV BURP GOLD 3 DVD - OUT 1ST NOVEMBER 2010 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, BRAND NEW SERIES: RUSSELL HOWARD'S GOOD NEWS 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 THE PUB LANDLORD’S GREAT BRITISH PUB QUIZ BOOK 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' ROB DEERING: THE ROB DEERING EXPERIENCE 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 GREG DAVIES: FIRING CHEESEBALLS AT A DOG ★★★★★ Mail on Sunday ★★★★★ The Independent ★★★★★ Sunday Telegraph ★★★★★ Chortle ★★★★★ Time Out Live ★★★★★ British Comedy Guide ★★★★★ The Arts HARRY HILL'S TV BURP RETURNS TO ITV1 ON 9TH OCTOBER 2010 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 THE LAKES ON A PLATE TRANSMITS ON CHANNEL 4 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 DAN ANTOPOLSKI: TURN OF THE CENTURY 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 JENNY ECLAIR: OLD DOG NEW TRICKS 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 NOT GOING OUT SERIES 1 - 3 DVD BOX SET RELEASED 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 NOT GOING OUT SERIES 3 DVD RELEASED 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. GRUMPY GUIDE TO SCHOOLDAYS 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 RUSSELL KANE TO EMBARK ON NATIONAL TOUR OF HIS EDINBURGH COMEDY AWARD WINNING SHOW ★★★★★ The Times ★★★★★ Daily Telegraph ★★★★★ The Sunday Times ★★★★★ Mirror Online ★★★★★ Three Weeks ★★★★★ Fest ★★★★★Time Out Live ISY SUTTIE: LOVE LOST IN THE BRITISH RETAIL INDUSTRY - DEBUT NATIONAL TOUR 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 ALUN COCHRANE - JOKES. LIFE. AND JOKES ABOUT LIFE 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 EDINBURGH 2010: CHRIS RAMSEY - 'AGGROPHOBIC' 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 EDINBURGH 2010: ROISIN CONATY - 'HERO, WARRIOR, FIREMAN, LIAR' “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 EDINBURGH 2010: LEE NELSON'S 'WELL GOOD EDINBRA SHOW' 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 EDINBURGH 2010: CHRIS ADDISON 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 THE GAMES THAT TIME FORGOT - 26TH JULY ON BBC FOUR 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 HEIR HUNTERS SERIES 2 AND 3 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 EDINBURGH 2010: NAT LUURTSEMA - 'IN MY HEAD I'M A HERO' 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 EDINBURGH 2010: JIMMY MCGHIE - 'THE ALL-POWERFUL WARRIOR WHO WITH HIS ENDURANCE AND INFLEXIBLE WILL TO WIN GOES FROM CONQUEST TO CONQUEST LEAVING FIRE IN HIS WAKE' 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 EDINBURGH 2010: THE COMEDY ZONE 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 EDINBURGH 2010: RICHARD HERRING - 'AS IT OCCURS TO ME 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, EDINBURGH 2010: GARETH RICHARDS - 'STAND UP BETWEEN SONGS' 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 EDINBURGH 2010: ALEX HORNE - 'TASKMASTER' 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 EDINBURGH 2010: ROB DEERING - 'ROB DEERING'S BEAT THIS' 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 - EDINBURGH 2010: GREG DAVIES - 'FIRING CHEESEBALLS AT A DOG' 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 EDINBURGH 2010: RICHARD HERRING - 'CHRIST ON A BIKE! THE SECOND COMING' 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 EDINBURGH 2010: LAURA SOLON - 'THE OWL OF STEVEN' 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 EDINBURGH 2010: SADIE HASLER - 'LADY BONES' 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 EDINBURGH 2010: DOMESTIC GODDI - 'WONDERLAND' 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 EDINBURGH 2010: DAN ANTOPOLSKI - 'TURN OF THE CENTURY' 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 EDINBURGH 2010: ALEX HORNE - 'ODDS' 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. EDINBURGH 2010: RUSSELL KANE - 'SMOKESCREENS & CASTLES' 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 LONG LIVE ALEX 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 LEE NELSON'S WELL GOOD SHOW - BRAND NEW COMEDY SERIES STARTS ON BBC THREE, 10TH JUNE AT 10:30PM 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 BADDIEL & SKINNER REUNITE AS ABSOLUTE RADIO’S SUMMER VOICE OF FOOTBALL WITH A BRAND NEW SERIES OF THEIR SONY AWARD NOMINATED PODCASTS 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™. DON'T GET DONE GET DOM - BRAND NEW SERIES FROM 24TH MAY ON BBC1 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, AVALON’S EDINBURGH FESTIVAL FRINGE LINE-UP 2010 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: T-34 DOWNLOAD FESTIVAL 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 GRUMPY GUIDE TO THE EIGHTIES 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 FRANK SKINNER'S OPINIONATED, STARTS 16TH APRIL 2010 ON BBC TWO 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, KRISTEN SCHAAL & KURT BRAUNOHLER IN PENELOPE PRINCESS OF PETS - 19TH APRIL ON CHANNEL 4 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 RUSSELL HOWARD: RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW - NEW ARENA TOUR FOR SPRING 2011 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 CHRIS ADDISON EXTENDS STAND UP TOUR INTO AUTUMN 2010 - 22 NEW DATES ADDED 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 AL MURRAY THE PUB LANDLORD: BRAND NEW TOUR ANNOUNCED 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 RUSSELL HOWARD'S GOOD NEWS RETURNS TO BBC THREE - FROM 25TH MARCH 2010 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 GRUMPY OLD WOMEN LIVE 2: CHIN UP BRITAIN - HIT SHOW TRANSFERS TO WEST END FOR EIGHT-WEEK RUN FROM APRIL 2010 “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 CHRIS ADDISON LIVE - BRAND NEW STAND UP TOUR FROM 5TH FEBRUARY 2010 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 ALEX HORNE - AWARD WINNING COMIC AND STAR OF BBC FOUR'S WE NEED ANSWERS - EMBARKS ON BRAND NEW TOUR FROM 15TH JANUARY 2010 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. DAVE GORMAN: SIT DOWN, PEDAL, PEDAL, STOP AND STAND UP TOUR EXTENDED INTO SPRING 2010 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 RICHARD HERRING: HITLER MOUSTACHE - HIT EDINBURGH SHOW ON TOUR FROM JANUARY 2010 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 LEE MACK TOUR EXTENDED INTO AUTUMN 2010 - 70,000 EXTRA TICKETS NOW ON SALE 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 GRIFF RHYS JONES, DARA O'BRIAIN & RORY MCGRATH - THREE MEN GO TO IRELAND ON BBC TWO THIS CHRISTMAS 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 TRIPLE EDINBURGH COMEDY AWARD NOMINEE AND 'I'M A CELEBRITY...' PRESENTER RUSSELL KANE TO TOUR FAKESPEARE ★★★★ The Sunday Times; ★★★★The List; ★★★★ Edinburgh Evening News; ★★★★ Fest; ★★★★ Three Weeks; ★★★★ Fringe Review; ★★★★ The National Student After a GRUMPY GUIDE TO CHRISTMAS 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 AL MURRAY, THE PUB LANDLORD'S BEAUTIFUL BRITISH TOUR LIVE AT THE O2 OUT ON DVD 16TH NOVEMBER 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 AWARD WINNING COMIC DAN ANTOPOLSKI EMBARKS ON FIRST NATIONAL TOUR 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 ANDY ZALTZMAN'S HISTORY OF THE THIRD MILLENNIUM, SERIES 1 OF 100 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. ALESHA DIXON: WHO’S YOUR DADDY? 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 ONE STORY, SIX LIVES...MOUTH TO MOUTH - A NEW COMEDY DRAMA ON BBC THREE 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 ADRIAN CHILES BRINGS THE WORLD CUP’S FUNNIEST MOMENTS TO DVD IN AN EXCLUSIVE EDITION OF MATCH OF THE DAY 2’S MUST SEE ROUND-UP ‘2 GOOD 2 BAD’ 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 HARRY HILL'S TV BURP GOLD 2 - DVD RELEASED 9TH NOVEMBER 2009 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 RUSSELL HOWARD TO HOST NEW TOPICAL SHOW ON BBC THREE 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 RICHARD HERRING – AS IT OCCURS TO ME 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 AVALON DISTRIBUTION SECURES ASIAN AND EUROPEAN SALES FOR MULTI-AWARD-WINNING SITCOM ‘NOT GOING OUT’ 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 PERRIER AWARD WINNER LAURA SOLON TO EMBARK ON NATIONAL TOUR 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 HARRY HILL'S TV BURP RETURNS TO ITV1 - 10TH OCTOBER 2009 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 THINK YOURSELF BRITISH BY AL MURRAY, THE PUB LANDLORD - OUT 8TH OCTOBER 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 HARRY HILL'S TV BURP BOOK - OUT 8TH OCTOBER 2009 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. RUSSELL HOWARD LIVE - DINGLEDODIES: NEW LIVE DVD RELEASED ON 9TH NOVEMBER 2009 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 STORYVAULT.COM: NEW ORAL HISTORY SITE LAUNCHED TODAY BY FORMER ITV CHIEF EXECUTIVE 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 CHRIS ADDISON - NEW STAND UP TOUR ANNOUNCED FOR 2010 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 ALUN COCHRANE - BRAND NEW 30 DATE TOUR ANNOUNCED 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 DAVE GORMAN: SIT DOWN, PEDAL, PEDAL, STOP AND STAND UP - NEW TOUR FROM 30TH AUGUST 2009 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 WE ARE KLANG - BBC THREE FROM 30TH JULY 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 EDINBURGH 2009: 'HE'S JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU' AUTHOR MAKES UK STAND-UP DEBUT AT THE EDINBURGH FESTIVAL FRINGE 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 MOCK THE WEEK STAR RUSSELL HOWARD ANNOUNCES UK ARENA TOUR 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 COMEDY CENTRAL'S EDINBURGH & BEYOND RETURNS WITH NEW HOST RUSSELL HOWARD - FROM 25TH JULY 2009 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 EDINBURGH 2009: COLIN HOULT - 'CARNIVAL OF MONSTERS' 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 EDINBURGH 2009: TOM DEACON - 'INDECISIVE' 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 EDINBURGH 2009: JIMMY MCGHIE - 'JIMMY MCGHIE'S NORTHERN MEETING' 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 EDINBURGH 2009: DAN ANTOPOLSKI - 'SILENT BUT DEADLY' 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 EDINBURGH 2009: SIMON BRODKIN - 'STILL NOT HIMSELF' 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 EDINBURGH 2009: RUSSELL KANE - 'FAKESPEARE: THE TRAGICKAL SAVEINGS OF KING NIGEL' “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 EDINBURGH 2009: THE COMEDY ZONE 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 EDINBURGH 2009: LAURA SOLON - 'RABBIT FACED STORY SOUP' 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 EDINBURGH 2009: ANDREW COLLINS & RICHARD HERRING - 'COLLINGS AND HERRIN PODCAST LIVE!' 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 EDINBURGH 2009: RICHARD HERRING - 'HITLER MOUSTACHE' 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 EDINBURGH 2009: ROSIE WILKINSON & HELEN O'BRIEN - 'DOMESTIC GODDI 2: HOW TO COPE' 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 EDINBURGH 2009: DAN ATKINSON - 'DEATH BY A THOUSAND PRICKS' 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 EDINBURGH 2009: FERGUS CRAIG - 'STILL WATCHES NEIGHBOURS' 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 EDINBURGH 2009: KRISTEN SCHAAL & KURT BRAUNOHLER - 'DOUBLE DOWN HEARTS' 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 EDINBURGH 2009: THE UMBRELLA BIRDS - 'SKETCHES IN A SHOP CHANGING ROOM' 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 EDINBURGH 2009: DANIELLE WARD - 'LIES' 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 EDINBURGH 2009: RUSSELL KANE - 'HUMAN DRESSAGE' 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 FRANK SKINNER ON THE ROAD TO BE RELEASED IN PAPERBACK ON 6TH AUGUST 2009 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 DOUBLE IF.COMEDY AWARD NOMINEE RUSSELL KANE TO EMBARK ON HIS SECOND NATIONAL TOUR THIS YEAR 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 PERRIER AWARD-WINNING LAURA SOLON TO BRING HER FIRST LIVE SHOW SINCE 2005 TO SOHO THEATRE, BETWEEN 6TH - 17TH OCT 2009 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 AVALON DISTRIBUTION SELLS TV BURP FORMAT TO SEVEN 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 AVALON’S EDINBURGH FESTIVAL FRINGE LINE-UP 2009 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 GRUMPY OLD WOMEN LIVE 2: CHIN UP BRITAIN 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 EDINBURGH 2009: FRANK SKINNER’S CREDIT CRUNCH CABARET HEADS TO THE EDINBURGH FESTIVAL FRINGE 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 BBC THREE COMMISSIONS TOPICAL SHOW PILOT FROM MOCK THE WEEK STAR 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 LEE MACK - BRAND NEW 50 DATE TOUR ANNOUNCED 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 FRANK SKINNER’S CREDIT CRUNCH CABARET EXTENDED FOR THIRD TIME 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 GRUMPY OLD WOMEN LIVE 2: CHIN UP BRITAIN – FULL AUTUMN 2009 TOUR 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 DAVE GORMAN: SIT DOWN, PEDAL, PEDAL, STOP AND STAND UP TOUR EXTENDED INTO 2010 - 50,000 EXTRA TICKETS ON SALE 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 AL MURRAY - THE PUB LANDLORD: TOUR EXTENDED INTO AUTUMN 2009 – 54,000 EXTRA TICKETS NOW ON SALE 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 GROUCHY YOUNG MEN 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 GRUMPY OLD WOMEN LIVE 2: CHIN UP BRITAIN 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) ‘TIME GENTLEMEN PLEASE’ TO BE RELEASED ON ONE DVD 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 SERIES TWO OF THE AWARD WINNING ‘AL MURRAY’S HAPPY HOUR’ NOW AVAILABLE ON DVD 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, FIVE MORE SHOWS FOR FRANK SKINNER'S CREDIT CRUNCH CABARET AS RUN EXTENDED “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 DAVE GORMAN: SIT DOWN, PEDAL, PEDAL, STOP AND STAND UP - NEW TOUR FROM 30TH AUGUST 2009 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 AL MURRAY'S MULTIPLE PERSONALITY DISORDER 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 NOT GOING OUT SERIES TWO RELEASED ON DVD 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 FRANK SKINNER’S CREDIT CRUNCH CABARET 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 RICHARD HERRING - THE HEADMASTER'S SON NATIONAL TOUR 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 NOT GOING OUT SERIES THREE 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, ALEX HORNE BIRDWATCHING 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 RUSSELL KANE - GAPING FLAWS NATIONAL TOUR 2009 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 - HAT TRICK’S DIRECTOR OF SALES JOINS AVALON DISTRIBUTION 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 "QUEEN OF DAYTIME" JOINS LIBERTY BELL 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, ‘TOUCH ME, I’M KAREN TAYLOR’ SOLD TO RTL 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 HARRY HILL'S TV BURP SERIES 8 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 RUSSELL HOWARD - DINGLEDODIES 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 AL MURRAY - THE PUB LANDLORD'S BEAUTIFUL BRITISH TOUR 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 Want to get in contact? Press and Publicity can be contacted by calling: LONDON OFFICE - 020 7598 7222 or email press&publicity@avalonuk.com HOME MANAGEMENT LIVE SHOWS TELEVISION DISTRIBUTION DEVELOPMENT PRESS & PUBLICITY CORPORATE PRIVACY TERMS By continuing to use this site, you agree we can set and use cookies. For more details of these cookies and how to disable them, see our cookie policy. © 2014 - Avalon Entertainment Limited. All rights reserved.