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Just like buses, you wait ages for a London theatre opening with a lowculture connection then two come along at once. (Actually they came along yesterday but Damages deserves a day to itself.) First we’re in the West End where Kim Cattrall stars in Noel Coward’s Private Lives. Cattrall is of course best known for [...]
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A few years ago, Radio 4 phone-in show Down The Line caused no end of controversy as the complaints flooded in, from listeners who hadn’t quite cottoned on to the fact that it was a spoof. It’s taken its time getting there but the character-based comedy show has finally arrived on TV, as Bellamy’s People, [...]
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First up in 2010’s big-name productions in the West End is the British premiere of a big US hit, Douglas Carter Beane’s The Little Dog Laughed, previewing from tonight. While Keira Knightley continues with her stage debut, her boyfriend Rupert Friend (who is totally famous in his own right and not just as Mr Keira, [...]
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It’s gone from the BBC Three backwater to official National Treasure status in a couple of years, and its popularity even seems to have survived the abomination that was Horne & Corden. Now Gavin & Stacey returns for its third and final series. The first series saw the titular couple fall in love and get [...]
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To be honest we’d given up hope of a second series of Jonathan Harvey’s Beautiful People so when it was finally annnounced there was much cheering at lowculture Towers. The initial run was one of the funniest, most warm-hearted programmes of 2008, and without doubt the campest. Loosely inspired by Simon Doonan’s memoirs but moved [...]
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It’s time once again for Comedy Showcase, Channel 4’s annual(ish) series of sitcom pilots. For the next 7 weeks they’ll be trying out new comedies, each of them hoping to be commissioned for a full series. Who knows, maybe this’ll be our first look at another comedy classic, just like that other one they greenlit [...]
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You may not be feeling too well-disposed towards ITV2 at the moment – after all, they were going to broadcast a show featuring lowculture favourite Christian Cooke’s bare buttocks months ago, but decided we’d probably like to look at Jordan staying classy again instead. But the first episode of Trinity finally airs tonight so you [...]
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Once again we have two big London shows going into previews on the same day. On TV Matt Lucas is back on familiar territory in Shooting Stars but on stage he’s taking on something a bit different, as Joe Orton’s lover (and, eventually, murderer) Kenneth Halliwell. Based partly on Orton’s diaries, Simon Bent’s new play [...]
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After a successful Christmas Special, Reeves & Mortimer’s 15-year-old comedy quiz Shooting Stars was recommissioned for a new series, which starts tonight. Ulrika Jonsson, Jack Dee and Matt Lucas as George Dawes all return, while burger van owner Angelos Epithemiou (Dan Skinner) replaces Johnny Vegas as a regular team member.
For such a well-loved show the [...]
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The most recent series of That Mitchell and Webb Look only finished a few weeks ago, bucking the “diminishing returns” trend of TV sketch shows by being the best yet, and already it’s time for the fourth series of their radio show. That Mitchell and Webb Sound returns to Radio 4 this evening and although [...]
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I saw them perform it "live" on GMTV this morning and I nearly spluttered out my tea. 