Is Asylum about Julian Assange? Co-writer Peter Bowden doesn’t think so, tweeting: “You may see Assange. You're free to see Assange….But that's not what I wrote and you'd be wrong.” An email I... more
Reviews
There was no dilemma about choosing a picture to go with this review. While Malcolm Hardee might not have been present – he died ten years ago on January 31, 2005, drowning in his beloved Thames – he... more
The Play That Goes Wrong is the kind of theatrical fairy story that producers dream about. What started off as a modest fringe production in a pub has grown and grown and is now a bona fide West End... more
Are there a lot of misogynistic men out there being mean about this sitcom starring mostly women or is this actually rubbish? This got a bit of a thumping on Twitter last week so I thought I'd better... more
For those of you enjoying Crims on BBC3 you may be interested to read this review of Elis James when he did a stand-up show at the Edinburgh Festival in 2012. His stage persona was not a million... more
Ross Noble is all set to have a busy 2015. In May he joins the cast of the touring production of The Producers, playing pigeon-fancying Franz Liebkind. When this was announced I asked Noble if he was... more
The brilliant news today that C4 has given the green light to a second series of Catastrophe coincided beautifully with me catching up with the second episode of the first series on 4oD. I was so... more
There was a bit of a kerfuffle in the run-up to this year’s New Act of the Year final when co-founder Roland Muldoon bemoaned the quality of the new acts that had entered. He said that while the... more
Tony Law has always been a bit of a loon. It's just that the rest of the world finally seems to have caught up with him. Having picked up a Foster's Award nomination in 2012 he has consolidated his... more
Bec Hill's show Ellipsis... was all about winning awards and afterwards she bagged a couple. She came up with the nation's favourite toilet joke (see below) and won he inaugural Barry Award (the... more
