Can you name a George Clooney film? How about a rank in the British Army? Sounds easy, doesn’t it? But what if you had to name the least obvious George Clooney film? Or the British Army rank everyone forgets about?
This is the basis of Pointless, a brilliant new game show on BBC TWO Daytime, in which obscure knowledge is the key to success.
Sophie Dahl, author and food writer, is coming to BBC Two with a brand new series for 2010.
Made by Jamie Oliver’s Fresh One Productions, the series will feature Sophie cooking up delicious recipes and reminiscing on her own personal food memories..
Food for Sophie is a way of life, she says: “For me, food is more than just fuel; it’s a joy and an adventure.
New six-part comedy series Home Time comes to BBC Two next month.
Home Time is co-written by and starring comedy actress Emma Fryer (Ideal) and features a nearly all-female ensemble cast: Hayley Jayne Standing (My Dad’s The Prime Minister), Kerry Godliman (Extras), Rebekah Staton (Pulling), Marian McLoughlin (The Omid Djalili Show), plus Philip Jackson (Poirot) and James Daffern (Emmerdale, Love Letters).
Emma Fryer plays the lead role of Gaynor Jacks who returns to her hometown, Coventry, home to her Mum and Dad’s house, and home to her three best friends, Mel, Becky and Kelly.
In advance of her acting première in BBC Two’s credit crunch drama Freefall, Girls Aloud’s Sarah Harding has said that she would love also love to take on a comedy role.
“People like to see you as just one thing and find it hard to take if you try something different – they say ‘Why’s she doing that?’” she told The Sun.
“So I have to be clever about what I choose and take it one step at a time.”
Alan Yentob meets the inspiring Company of Elders in the first of the new series of BBC One’s Imagine strand, which aims to capture the power of the arts and the people who have changed our way of looking at the world.
The company are breathless and joints are aching – probably because the performers range in age from 61 to 85. They have only eight weeks to practice their pas de deux and arabesques in order to perform a new contemporary work at world-famous dance venue Sadler’s Wells.
I really wasn’t sure whether to laugh, be scared or throw up while watching this new comedy-horror by the truly twisted inventors of The League of Gentlemen, Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton.
It started out being promisingly amusing in the first few seconds with a mystery man, all gloves and black clothes, writing out cards saying ‘I know what you did’ and sealing them with black wax. He’s then called to “Cashier number 4 please” and we see he’s in a bank with someone in the queue behind him remarking that he’s left his candle.
We then cut to one of the recipients of the mystery cards, Mr Jelly, a psychopathic one-handed clown and children’s entertainer who was asleep on his sofa cradling the ashtray that looked very much like the dice one from the set of the Royle Family… Read more & comment »
Filming has begun on the brand new comedy sitcom, Miranda, due for transmission in Autumn 2009 on BBC Two.
Miranda is based on the semi-autobiographical writing of comedy actress Miranda Hart (Not Going Out, Hyperdrive, Absolutely Fabulous). The show started its life as a TV pilot and then moved onto becoming the critically acclaimed, Sony Award nominated radio series, Miranda Hart’s Joke Shop, on BBC Radio 2.
Scary, funny and bloody, BBC Two and BBC HD introduce a new comedy-thriller from Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton, two of the acclaimed creators of The League Of Gentlemen.
Steve and Reece are joined by a rich mix of talent, including Dawn French, Dame Eileen Atkins, Nicholas Le Prevost, David Bamber, Janet McTeer, Christopher Biggins, Daisy Haggard, Debbie Chazen, Daniel Kaluuya and Adrian Scarborough.
The 9pm slot on TV last night really was a let down on the comedy front, what with the diabolical May Contain Nuts on ITV and this equally diabolical ‘comedy’ on BBC2.
It began relatively promisingly and I tittered a few times in the first few minutes, but then it just went from being a tongue-in-cheek dig at dungeons and dragons type fans to just plain absurd.
The gorgeous Sean McGuire as Kröd played a good part – and was especially watchable due to his physique and costume – but was let down by his lines. Ditto Matt Lucas as Chancellor Dongalor, Kröd’s arch enemy. Each had a few funny lines and scenes, but on the whole, it was just, well, not very amusing at all and in fact, it rapidly became tedious to watch… Read more & comment »
The Royal Shakespeare Company’s award-winning production of Hamlet, directed by RSC Chief Associate Director Gregory Doran, and with David Tennant in the title role, will premiere on BBC Two later this year.
All key original members of the cast, including Patrick Stewart as Claudius, are confirmed to star in this special 180-minute production, alongside the same creative team.
Janice Hadlow, Controller, BBC Two, says: “This is a wonderful opportunity for BBC Two to bring one of the great stage successes of last year to a wider audience.”
An embittered one-handed clown; a desperately misguided midwife; a lovestruck telekinetic dwarf; a blind avaricious collector; and a serial-killer-obsessed man-child… five seemingly unconnected characters share one thing in common.
Despite coming from different parts of the country and having different backgrounds and interests, each one has been sent an anonymous, black-edged card bearing the chilling message: “I know what you did…”
Knowitalls, is the brand new quiz show – without questions – where the players’ breadth of knowledge is tested to the limit as teams battle it out to impress real experts on their specialist subjects.
Liam said: “I’m delighted to commission Knowitalls, a fresh and exciting new addition to BBC Daytime entertainment.”
BBC Two has commissioned a new comedy series starring Dawn French, called Roger And Val Have Just Got In. Casting for the male lead is still ongoing.
Written by Emma and Beth Kilcoyne (Dogtown), the series will feature the lives of a middle-aged couple after they’ve come through the door at the end of the working day.
Mark Freeland, Head of Comedy at the BBC, said: “Roger And Val leapt off the page at me the very first time I saw it. There will be nothing like it when it arrives on BBC Two. It’s original, intriguing, sweet, funny and full of pathos. And it’s only got two people in it.”
Professor Lesley Regan tackles the ever-challenging world of children’s products tonight, as she continues to conduct real-life experiments and employ her own inimitable brand of interrogation by putting products under the microscope – in order to get to the scientific truth behind gimmicks.
From cheese strings to educational toys, formula milk to classical CDs, Professor Regan attempts to wade through the litany of products that use parental guilt as a marketing ploy.
The search to find Britain’s best young speaker reaches its grand finale tonight. Together, the three finalists have seen off thousands of other contenders. They’ve undertaken months of challenges and speeches with expert guidance from their mentors, Kate Silverton, Deborah Meaden, Alastair Campbell and Earl Spencer, and faced the scrutiny of the series’ judges, Jo Brand, John Amaechi and Jeremy Stockwell. In last night’s semi-final they addressed the nation to win their place in final. Now, they face a life-changing trip to Malawi with Unicef to research and prepare their speeches for the final showdown.
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