BBC’s Controller of Comedy Commissioning, Lucy Lumsden and BBC Three Controller, Danny Cohen have commissioned Tiger Aspect Productions to produce Horne And Corden Have Come (working title), a new 6 x 30 mins character comedy sketch show for BBC Three.
It is written by and stars Mathew Horne (Gavin And Stacey, Catherine Tate, Roman’s Empire) and James Corden (Gavin And Stacey, History Boys, Fat Friends).
Designed as a traditional comedy entertainment show in the style of Morecambe and Wise, Mat and James will be creating new comedy characters as well as performing in front of a live studio audience as themselves. Read More »
One in six teens believe they’re going to be famous. Child Stars tells the story of three youngsters who have given their lives to seeing their names in lights. Read More »
The new series of The Mighty Boosh sees Vince Noir and Howard Moon working in Naboo’s second-hand shop in Dalston, London. Howard, unsuccessfully trying to sell his esoteric jazz records, mainly moons away the hours in a delusion of grandeur while Vince lays around in a hammock, playing loud music, trying on wigs and finding Howard ludicrous. Needless to say, they don’t get much work done. This doesn’t bother Naboo too much – firstly, as the shop is really only a cover for his shady interplanetary Shaman business and, secondly, he’s usually quite chilled out from sampling his own magical herbs and remedies. Read More »
BBC Three presents new one-off drama Being Human – a witty, exciting, sexy and extraordinary look at the friendship between three 20-something outsiders trying to find their way in an enticing, yet complicated world.
Starring a cast of bright up-and-coming actors: Guy Flanagan (Totally Frank), Andrea Riseborough (Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley), Russell Tovey (The History Boys) alongside Adrian Lester (Hustle), Being Human explores what its like trying to find where you fit into the grand scheme of things when you live with an unusual affliction…
Mitchell (Flanagan) and George (Tovey) are two 20-something lads who, like any of their peers, would love to hit the town, pull girls and spend evenings down the pub. Read More »
Twelve teenagers are being given the chance to take part in a radical social experiment. For three weeks, they will be left alone to create and run their own school, from scratch.
Under the teenagers’ supervision is a group of spirited 11- and 12-year-olds. As well as having a real budget to manage, the teenagers have to feed their pupils, organise activities, entertain and teach them. They have to deliver a curriculum covering academic and creative subjects. The teenagers’ school is also subject to regular inspections to make sure it is maintaining standards. Read More »
BBC Three’s contemporary comedy Drop Dead Gorgeous, following a teenager’s career on the catwalk and its effect on her modest, working-class family, returns for a new series.
In tonight’s first episode, Ashley’s agent, Murray, gets to sign the most important contract of his life – in a wedding so flamboyant and extravagant that it would put Jordan and Peter’s to shame.
Relations between Ashley and her green-eyed twin, Jade, are as strained as ever as Ashley’s status goes international with a major casting for a huge designer label. Read More »
Kill It, Cook It, Eat It returns for a second series, this time following the meat production process of younger animals, in a new series for BBC Three.
The slaughter of young animals – veal, milk-fed lambs, kid goats and suckling pigs – happens regularly in abattoirs around the country throughout the year. As a nation of animal lovers, we may not want to acknowledge consciously that animals are taken from their mothers shortly after birth and put to the slaughterman’s knife. But it does happen. Read More »
Alasdair Jeffrey is on a personal quest to eradicate bullshit from all areas of our lives. In this series of pranks and stunts, he debunks bullshit of all kinds, from pseudoscience and phoney products to New Age nonsense.
Alasdair worked the corporate consultancy circuit with great success for over 10 years. He appeared in the award-winning BBC Two series Trouble At The Top and BBC Three’s The Ferocious Mr Fixit.
In The Bulls**t Detective, the straight-talking Glaswegian tackles the purveyors of nonsense head on, challenging their claims.
The series investigates get-rich-quick schemes and their promises to make people millionaires. Alasdair confronts the organisers of a pyramid scheme with the mathematical reality their members face. He also reveals sneaky supermarket sales tricks and the self-promoting gurus who promise to reveal the secrets of success in exchange for a large fee.
