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Stephen Merchant co-stars with Asim Chaudhry in Click & Collect, the big BBC One comedy film that goes out on Christmas Eve at 9pm. Stephen Merchant talks about it and his own Christmas experiences below.
BBC One has revealed their Christmas comedy, which includes a live edition of Not Going Out, a one-off starring Stephen Merchant and Asim Chaudhry and a return for The Young Offenders. Transmission dates to be confirmed. More details below. BBC Two highlights here.
Update - Comedian Sophie Willan has joined the cast too.
Lest we forget, George Michael had an excellent sense of humour. After his arrest in an LA toilet he shot the video for Outside in which a toilet turned into a glitzy disco. But the comedy appearance that springs most immediately to mind was in Extras when he brilliantly sent himself up as a dope-smoking kebab eating cruiser on Hampstead Heath. On hearing the news of George's death Ricky Gervais simply tweeted "Unbelievable. RIP George Michael." and Stephen Merchant tweeted "RIP George Michael.
Stephen Merchant is to present the return of The Crystal Maze on Channel 4.
The special episode of the puzzle-solving cult classic formerly hosted by Richard O'Brien and Ed Tudor-Pole will be broadcast as part of the Stand Up To Cancer charity week in October. The series was last broadcast on C4 in 1995. It had previously been reported that David Tennant would be the new host, but Merchant has now been confirmed
A number of high profile comedians are due to appear in the British version of Lip Sync Battle. Among the names already mentioned are Jason Manford, Katherine Ryan, David Walliams, Johnny Vegas, Kayvan Novak and Vic Reeves.
The show is hosted by Mel B and Professor Green and in the first edition, which goes out on Five on January 8, David Walliams will be going head-to-head with Alesha Dixon.
Stephen Merchant doesn’t do things by halves. Although he has appeared in Hollywood movies and some of the sitcoms he has co-written with Ricky Gervais, he is making his West End debut playing the lead in a two-hander. The success of The Mentalists stands or falls on Merchant’s performance.
BAFTA Award-winning writer, comedian and actor Stephen Merchant will make his West End debut in a new production of Richard Bean’s comic two-hander The Mentalists.
I'm a bit late to the party with this one, but I just wanted to say how much I enjoyed Clear History, an HBO production that went out on Sky Atlantic last week. But then I would enjoy it. I've pretty much enjoyed every comedy Larry David has been involved in from Seinfeld to Curb Your Enthusiasm. Note to self - must hunt down his not-well-received pre-Curb debut movie Sour Grapes.
Stephen Merchant's new sitcom, Hello Ladies, in which he plays lonely Brit Stuart Pritchard looking for love in LA, is on Sky Atlantic on Wednesdays at 10pm from October 16. You can read more about it here. I interviewed Merchant recently for the Independent on Sunday. He was in LA having just had brunch, I was in South London with Crocodile Dundee on ITV in the background.
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