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Sandi Toksvig bookies' University Challenge host favourite as Jeremy Paxman steps down

The BBC are set to announce Jeremy's replacement later this week and several names are already being thrown into the hat as to who it could be.

Connie Rusk, The Mirror, 16th August 2022

Join campaign for C4 Alternative Election Night 2019

Back in 2017 we ran a campaign to bring back The Alternative Election Night after the success of the previous one in 2015. Due to the fact it was a snap general election we were worried C4 wouldn't be able to pull it together in time, but despite the short notice they did. The coverage beat ITV and Sky's in the ratings! But, now it's even shorter notice, time is of the essence, so here's what we need you to do...

Jazzy Janey, A Dose Of David Mitchell, 30th October 2019

The biggest problem for the makers of a satirical news quiz in 2018 must be knowing where to start. Hislop and Merton's Friday-night fixture has felt slightly flabby in recent series but Brexit, Trump and Cambridge Analytica feel like fish in a barrel, just waiting to be shot. Jeremy Paxman hosts this opener.

Phil Harrison, The Guardian, 6th April 2018

Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie review

Some were trepidatious about this belated big-screen outing for the fashionista sitcom. In fact, post-referendum, the timing couldn't be better ... and neither could Joanna Lumley.

Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 30th June 2016

Absolutely Fabulous: The movie - bolly good show!

The jokes spring out at you from our crumpled old friends, sharp and fresh and pleasingly tasteless.

Libby Purves, Daily Mail, 30th June 2016

'Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie': Review

"All I ever wanted was not to be fat and old!" cries PR guru and bad gran Edina Monsoon, bewailing the time when "the zeitgeist used to run right through me". As her best friend Patsy injects herself with Botox, flips through Tinder and quaffs Chanel No 5 because they've run out of Bolly, it's clear that writer/star Jennifer Saunders hasn't lost her touch over the quarter century since these characters were first conceived for TV.

Fionnuala Halligan, Screen Daily, 30th June 2016

Absolutely Fabulous The Movie review

'It certainly makes better use of its armies of celebrities than was managed in Zoolander 2'

Geoffrey Macnab, The Independent, 30th June 2016

Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie - wearing its yeas well

The plotting is lazy, but this big-screen reboot of the much-loved sitcom gets by thanks to its stars and to the endless goodwill cameos.

Donald Clarke, The Irish Times, 29th June 2016

Over 60 cameos announced for Ab Fab movie

Dawn French, Graham Norton, Jeremy Paxman, Mark Gatiss, Robert Webb and Stella McCartney are amongst the list of 60+ cameos revealed for Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie

British Comedy Guide, 25th April 2016

Channel 4 election coverage beats ITV in ratings

Channel 4's Alternative Election Night, hosted by David Mitchell and Jeremy Paxman, has beaten ITV in the ratings, according to early overnight figures.

BBC News, 8th May 2015

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