Lenny Henry
As had been widely suggested on social media, Lenny Henry has been revealed as the star who was The Blob on ITV1's The Masked Singer.
In Saturday night's show the Blob hinted at his identity when he said: "I love to cook as much as I love to sing, and it is said if music be the food of love play on." Comedian Henry has appeared onstage in a number of plays by William Shakespeare including Othello.
ITV’s Head of Drama, Polly Hill, has commissioned life affirming drama, Three Little Birds, written by Sir Lenny Henry, inspired by his mother’s stories about leaving Jamaica in the 1950’s for Great Britain, which became her lifelong home and where she raised her family.
Sir Lenny has written each of the drama’s six fictional episodes, which his production company, Douglas Road Productions will produce in association with Tiger Aspect Productions. Both companies are part of the Banijay UK group.
Sir Lenny Henry returns to the BBC with a new six-part sketch show on Radio 4.
The Lenny Henry Show will be a brand-new character-based sketch comedy featuring old favourites like Deakus (musing about Covid from his care home) and Brixton-based DJ Delbert Wilkins, who's with his mate Winston talking about homeschooling.
Lenny Henry did a mean David Bellamy impression. In tribute to the broadcaster and naturalist who has died aged 86, here is Henry in action. Firstly a clip from sketch show Three of A Kind and then, below, Henry most famously doing "gwapple me grapenuts" Bellamy on Tiswas in "Compost Corner".
Sir Lenny Henry will embark on a brand new UK tour this autumn.Following the October publication of his memoir, Lenny will travel the length, breadth and width of the country with An Evening with Lenny Henry - Who Am I, Again?, opening in Birmingham on 20 October. Tickets are on sale now.
Lenny Henry is definitely the best person to front this examination of race in television comedy. After all, he's been in quite a lot of the programmes featured. In this first episode, for example, he pitches up in early ITV sitcom The Fosters and later BBC cooking comedy Chef! No doubt he will crop up in archive clips in the forthcoming episodes looking at stand-up and sketch shows.
UKTV has commissioned a three-part documentary series Lenny Henry’s Race Through Comedy for its comedy channel Gold. Sir Lenny Henry will take viewers on a personal journey with some of the people behind the sitcoms, sketches and stand-up comedy who have helped create and shape Britain’s culturally diverse comedic landscape.
Sir Lenny Henry is to present Gold’s new retrospective UKTV Original series Trust Morecambe & Wise. The four-part series, commissioned by Joe McVey, UKTV commissioning editor, and produced by Mercury Productions, will take a look at rarely seen footage featuring the immortal duo at the peak of their careers.
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