Entertainment, Style & Grooming, TV
Dressed in the finest seasonal wear from the likes of Dior Homme, Louis Vuitton and Prada (the bean pole that is Tom Wrigglesworth looked particularly fetching in his shrunken Prada jumper), Britain’s comedy heroes took their places last month for Esquire’s Kings of Comedy portfolio shoot. (more…)
August 5th, 2010
Considering George O’Dowd’s less than chummy relationship with the British media, the BBC sailed into choppy waters with last night’s Boy George biopic, Worried About The Boy. (more…)
May 17th, 2010
You may or may not remember Marc Wootton from his genius Channel 4 series My New Best Friend (which you can now watch on You Tube and 4oD). Well, he’s now taken the same brand of Baron Cohen-esque comedy – which basically involves unleashing his nightmarish creations onto an unsuspecting public – to America in new series La La Land which follows three British wannabes in search of fame and fortune in Los Angeles. It’s a documentary, but with him as the only actor. The results are, by turns, funny and excruciating. It’s coming to BBC3 in May.
March 25th, 2010
Didn’t catch Lizzie & Sarah, the comedy pilot written by and starring Jessica Hynes and Julia Davis, that was on at the unsociable time slot of 11:45pm last Saturday? That is, of course, what iPlayer was made for. Check out this link to enjoy this brilliant, bleak and brutal half-hour from the creators of Nighty Night and Spaced: a kind of Kill Bill meets The Vicar Of Dibley revenge tragedy. If they don’t get a series out of this, then our world is even more twisted than theirs.
March 23rd, 2010
Are you a conniving Pete Campbell or a wry Roger Sterling? A jubbly Joan Harris or a prim Peggy Olson? US channel AMC has devised this simple yet strangely compelling quiz to identify which character from Mad Men you most resemble. We’re an office of Don Drapers, naturally. Click on the picture to play, or go to www.amctv.com:80/originals/madmen/whichmadman
March 16th, 2010
Well there we were, innocently watching the Super Bowl last night (and yes, not feeling so fresh today, thanks for asking) and we happened to see the BBC’s new trail for the Winter Olympics. We’ll be damned if it doesn’t put Jamie Hewlett’s sequences for the Beijing games – nice as they were – in the shade. (more…)
February 8th, 2010
A new series of Newswipe from the brilliantly acerbic (and secretly rather nice) Charlie Brooker starts tonight, and if you’re anywhere near your sofa this evening you’d be advised to sit down and pay close attention. (more…)
January 19th, 2010
The second series of Kevin Bishop’s sketch show starts this Friday and having just seen the preview disc, fans of the first series will be happy to know the Star Stories man continues where he left off, successfully mining the worlds of film and TV while also taking things up a notch with a load of new characters and impressions – highlights include Jason Statham as The Puncher, a film trailer for ‘another seminal 70s interview from the makers of Frost/Nixon – Parky/Emu’ and a regular on celebrity siblings featuring Derren Brown’s taxi driving brother Darren.
The Kevin Bishop Show starts this Friday at 10pm on Channel 4
July 29th, 2009
