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Channel 4 is to screen a new hand-drawn animated special of classic children’s book Mog’s Christmas in the 100th anniversary year of Judith Kerr’s birth.
Charlie Higson, comedian and writer of the legendary The Fast Show, is releasing his first ever podcast in collaboration with Scala Radio. Following his successful return to Scala Radio, the classical music and entertainment radio station has announced that Charlie’s Sunday evening series ‘Charlie Higson & Friends’ is set to be released as a podcast.
The Fast Show: Just A Load Of Blooming Catchphrases will feature clips, interviews and rarely seen footage. Plus many of the show's best-loved characters in all-new scripted segments revealing what they are up to now.
The winners of the BBC’s Comedy Classroom writing competition launched in partnership with the National Literacy Trust have been announced.
Charlie Higson has revealed that he once wrote a piece called Bollock Street with Paul Whitehouse about a community of squatters, punks and arts students. When Frenchman Philippe arrives with a guitar, mayhem ensues, but sadly this project never went any further. He recalled this when talking to the Observer about donating his archive to his old university, UEA in Norwich.
A new interview with Fast Show creators Charlie Higson and Paul Whitehouse is to be made available via the BBC's new online shop, BBC Store. Fans will be able to see the interview, marking the show’s 21st birthday, free between midday and midnight this Sunday, November 15. After this time fans can purchase the interview, conducted by Danny Wallace.
Harry Hill is to make his acting debut for BBC One in Professor Branestawm (working title), a family film adapted from Norman Hunter’s classic children’s books by actor and author Charlie Higson (Fast Show, Young Bond series).
I think it would be pushing it to say that there is a raging feud between Charlie Higson and David Mitchell about sketch shows being elbowed out by panel shows. In fact if they have not already met I'm sure that they would get on like a very polite house on fire. But recently in separate interviews, linked together in a piece in the Independent, they appear to have taken slightly different stances on the state of TV comedy. The debate feels somewhat trumped up by a journalist looking for a spat where there isn't one.
I was really glad that the BBC2 series Bellamy's People did not return after one series. Not because it was awful. It was actually very good. But it meant that spoof DJ Gary Bellamy could return to Radio 4 with his "flagship phone-in show" Down The Line, which is even better. It currently goes out at 6.30pm on Wednesdays and I solemnly urge you to tune in.
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