This post was written by guest blogger and reality TV showbiz observer Daniel Cohen. Catch up with him on Twitter here!
David Walliams and Catherine Tate are still continuing their hard work on new BBC sitcom Big School, he has revealed.
Yesterday the Britain’s Got Talent judge raved about the performance of his co-stars and tweeted his followers saying:
This post was written by guest blogger and reality TV showbiz observer Daniel Cohen. Catch up with him on Twitter here!
David Walliams stars in Blandings tonight as the evil Rupert Baxter, the new BBC1 Woodehouse comedy (tonight 18:30)
Here he takes us through his new role.
Talk us through your character, Rupert Baxter, please David…
Connie brings Rupert in as a secretary to organise Clarence’s life. Rupert is very fastidious. He is quite contemptuous of the upper classes. He’s middle-class and wants to organise everything, but Clarence ends up as his nemesis. Read more & comment »
Last night saw the debut of the BBC’s new comedy Blandings, which stars former Auf Wiedersehen Pet actor Timothy Spall alongside Britain’s Got Talent judge David Walliams and Ab Fab’s Jennifer Saunders.
And in today’s TV Biz, Timothy has compared the show to ITV’s Downton Abbey, saying of Blandings, “This is like Downton Abbey on some kind of early cocaine.”
Timothy, who plays the role of Lord Clarence Emsworth, added, “[Blandings] is about an incredibly dysfunctional aristocratic family who live in this massive castle.
“They’re basically a bunch of lunatics who still behave the way they did when they were children…” Read more & comment »
When I was younger the BBC always used to air an adaptation of popular children’s tale in the run-up to Christmas these included the great Chronicles of Narnia series as well as Five Children and It and The Magician’s House. As the BBC’s children’s output has evolved this tradition has died out however with tonight’s adaptation of David Walliams’ Mr Stink it feels like it may just have returned. While watching this warm, funny and traditional tale I was put in mind of the programmes of my youth and wondered why this one-off special couldn’t have been extended into a two or three part series.
The BBC have revealed that it’s to air a lavish adaptation of children’s book Room on the Broom over Christmas, and they’ve lined up an all star voice-over cast including Britain’s Got Talent judge David Walliams, X Files star Gillian Anderson and former Gavin & Stacey star, Rob Brydon.
The corporation says of the show, “The premier of the half-hour animated special Room on the Broom, will light up faces and warm the cockles of every family on their sofa this Christmas, when it broadcasts as a festive highlight on BBC One.”
Room on the Broom is described as an “enchanting tale” of friendship and family that has been adapted by the same creative team that made The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo’s Child.
The award-winning book was written in 2001 by Children’s Laureate Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler. It features a kind witch who invites a collection of animals to join her on her broom, much to the frustration of her pet cat… Read more & comment »
A STAR STUDDED LINE-UP PERFORM AT THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL TO CELEBRATE THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ROYAL VARIETY PERFORMANCE 2012
One of television’s best loved personalities, comedian, actor and children’s author David Walliams is to host The Royal Variety Performance 2012 at the magnificent Royal Albert Hall. This year 2012 will mark the 100th anniversary of The Royal Variety Performance in the presence of Her Majesty The Queen and His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh.
Mrs Biggs star, Sheridan Smith has teamed up with funny man Johnny Vegas to star in a TV adaptation of the David Walliams kid’s novel, Mr Stink!
Britain’s Got Talent judge, Walliams, made the announcement of Sheridan’s, who is currently dating Amy Winehouse’s ex, Reg Traviss, and Vegas’, who starred in the hit ITV comedy, Benidorm, involvement in the project on social networking site, Twitter, earlier today, tweeting: “Sheridan Smith and Johnny Vegas are playing the mum and dad in ‘Mr Stink’. Exciting!”
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Funnyman Alan Carr returns this evening, with the eighth series of his award-winning chat show, delivering the second of six new episodes.
Alan Carr: Chatty Man kicks off the weekend in style with more unashamedly addictive celebrity-fuelled antics, mischievous chat and musical performances and in the second show the tv funnyman is joined by comedy superstar Eddie Izzard who chats about his Force Majeure world tour, Britain’s Got Talent judges David Walliams and Amanda Holden, plus the cast of Made in Chelsea. Music is from Gossip who perform Perfect World.
Tonight, Channel 4, 10PM
Little Britain star Matt Lucas has told TV&Satellite Week magazine that he and comedy sidekick David Walliams – who is of course a judge on Britain’s Got Talent – “have no immediate plans” to work together again.
The pair of course shot to fame in Little Britain, and have since gone on to enjoy success in a number of TV shows, both together and individually, and Matt is about to launch his new show, entitled, The Matt Lucas Awards.
Airing as of April 10th on BBC1, the new show sees Matt presiding over a mixture of comedy, music and chat as he, his mum and celebrity talk about who’d land nominations in various unlikely awards categories, such as Most Moreish Food to Dreadfullest Football Song Ever Sung.
Of the show, Matt said, This is a very different kind of show for me. It’s not scripted and I’m not in character.
“I was nervous about appearing as myself, because I haven’t done that much before, but I think it works well… Read more & comment »
A staggering 74,075 entries have been submitted for this year’s BBC Radio 2 500 Words competition – exceeding more than double the number of entries received last year.
The number of teachers and librarians who have applied to help judge the entries also increased significantly to 2117. Last year an impressive 28,442 stories were received and 1329 teachers and librarians applied to help adjudicate the entries.
In a forthcoming documentary about comedian David Walliams’ swim in the River Thames for charity, we’ll hear the comic reveal that he’s always suffered from self-loathing.
In David Walliams’ Big Swim: A Sport Relief Special, which airs on BBC1 on March 8, David’s fellow comedian, Jimmy Carr, is heard saying that David has repeatedly refused to go out to dinner with him, and jokingly suggesting it’s because David has “self-loathing.”
However, in response, David revealed that far from being a joking matter, he does in fact suffer from self-esteem issues, and that they’ve dogged him throughout his life.
He said, “I’d say there’s a degree of it. It sort of lessens and heightens at certain points.
“For me it’s always been there. So it’s probably part of the reason that I try so hard to do things to please people.”
However, in an interview with the Radio Times, David explained that he uses his charitable works to alleviate those feelings… Read more & comment »
Jimmy Carr will join the stellar line up for Amnesty International’s Secret Policeman’s Ball. The TV show will air on Channel 4 within days of the event itself in March, which this year takes place in New York for the very first time at Radio City Music Hall. This is the first time the Ball has been held outside of the UK.
UK and US stars featuring in the celebration of free speech and Amnesty International’s 50th anniversary include David Walliams, Russell Brand, Jon Stewart, Sarah Silverman, Statler and Waldorf, Micky Flanagan, Jack Whitehall, Jason Sudeikis, Peter Serafinowicz, Seth Meyers, Noel Fielding and Kristen Wiig.
TV watchdog Ofcom have been called in by furious viewers to investigate a ‘joke’ made by comedian David Walliams when he made a guest appearance on Chris Moyle’s Quiz Night.
David – who is still recovering after swimming the length of the River Thames for charity – reportedly outraged fans of Chris’s show when he made a “crude joke” about former X Factor finalist Harry Styles, who is a member of boy band, One Direction.
David apparently said of Harry, “I’d like to suck his ****.”
Viewers who described his comment as “disgusting” immediately complained to Channel 4 – who host Chris’s show – and to Ofcom.
According to Metro, A Channel 4 representative said of the incident, “The show was appropriately scheduled post-watershed at 10pm and viewers were warned of strong language and adult humour.” Read more & comment »
David Walliams talks about swimming the Thames, being ill and reveals that he won’t be doing it again. Michael Bublé chats about being a newlywed and admits that he hates his wife being a bigger star than him in Argentina. And Seth Rogen talks about his transformation from chubby Jew to Hollywood star…
In his first TV interview since contracting a stomach bug whilst swimming the Thames for charity, David Walliams tells Jonathan what convinced him to do the swim in the first place and what kept him going whilst feeling ill.
Comedian David Walliams must surely be wishing that he’d never taken on his marathon swim of the River Thames, as it’s now been reported that he has a torn disc in his back.
And during the swim, which raised around £10million for Sport Relief, David endured two bouts of gastroenteritis and was bitten by water fleas.
The latest health setback has meant that David was hospitalized for treatment to the torn disc, which made it difficult for him to walk. He’s now been discharged and ordered to rest at home. Read more & comment »
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