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Mandy starring Diane Morgan to return for Series 2
BBC Two has ordered a second series of Mandy, the comedy created by and starring Diane Morgan. Filming is underway, with guest stars set to include Anna Maxwell Martin, Nick Mohammed, Sir Tom Courtenay, Alexei Sayle and Nigel Planer.
British Comedy Guide, 29th July 2021Douglas Adams archive book to be published
A book featuring extracts from Hitchhiker's Guide creator Douglas Adams' archive is to be published.
British Comedy Guide, 23rd March 2021Robin Ince's Nine Lessons to stage a 24 hour show
Robin Ince's annual variety night Nine Lessons And Carols For Curious People is going online this year, once again mashing up science, comedy, music and more.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 7th October 2020How did The Infinite Monkey Cage's virtual audience go?
Earlier this week, amid the coronavirus pandemic, the BBC recorded its first programme with a live audience listening from home. Could this be the new normal for radio comedy shows?
Steven McIntosh, BBC, 2nd June 2020Infinite Monkey Cage to trial remote virtual audience recordings
Radio 4 panel show The Infinite Monkey Cage is to be the first to trial a BBC remote virtual audience recording system. Audience members will be able to watch the recording via Zoom, where their laughter will be recorded.
British Comedy Guide, 29th May 2020Ali G vs Trump - and other inspired spoof interviews
Fifteen years ago, when Donald Trump was merely a business tycoon and not the most controversial US president since Nixon, he found himself face to face with Sacha Baron Cohen's cult comedy alter-ego: aspiring UK rapper Ali G. Now that Diane Morgan's Philomena Cunk is currently rekindling the trend for spoof interviews, we look back at one of the best.
Mark Butler, i Newspaper, 4th April 2018Cleese, Walliams, Carr in new John Bishop series
The guests have been announced for the third series of John Bishop: In Conversation With... on the W Channel.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 25th July 2017Charlie Brooker's 2016 Wipe review
Cynical metropolitan elitists such as myself have one thing to hold onto at the end of this abysmal year: Charlie Brooker tearing it to bleeding shreds.
Joseph Hallas, On The Box, 30th December 2016Even as TV's foremost black sky thinker, Charlie Brooker would probably have struggled to predict the turbulent, feverish and generally dispiriting events of 2016. Suffice to say that Brooker isn't short of material for this year's rewind. However, there'll be some light relief as Philomena Cunk goes head to head with grinning pop-rave professor physicist Brian Cox, and Diane Morgans media caricature gets a spin-off show immediately afterwards in Cunk On Christmas (10pm).
Phil Harrison, The Guardian, 29th December 2016Unprecedentedly odd: The Entire Universe reviewed
As you've probably noticed, TV critics spend a lot of their time trying to identify which other programmes the one they're reviewing most resembles. Sadly, in the case of BBC2's The Entire Universe, this noble quest proved futile.
James Walton, The Spectator, 29th December 2016