The BBC has announced a number of new comedy shows, including six-part series The Tracey Ullman Show.
Tracey Ullman's last BBC series - A Kick up the Eighties and Three of a Kind - aired in the 1980s, after which she concentrated on a Us TV career.
The actress and comedian - who will portray various characters living in, or visiting, the UK - said: "It's a privilege to be doing this. I still feel as inspired to inhabit people as I did when I was 6, standing on the window sill in my mother's bedroom, putting on a show.
"The BBC has changed a bit since the last time I worked here, when it was all men in bow ties who had completed National Service. Now there are a lot more women. Great ones.
"The important things haven't changed, though. The BBC still provides an environment that allows you...
Tracey Ullman's last BBC series - A Kick up the Eighties and Three of a Kind - aired in the 1980s, after which she concentrated on a Us TV career.
The actress and comedian - who will portray various characters living in, or visiting, the UK - said: "It's a privilege to be doing this. I still feel as inspired to inhabit people as I did when I was 6, standing on the window sill in my mother's bedroom, putting on a show.
"The BBC has changed a bit since the last time I worked here, when it was all men in bow ties who had completed National Service. Now there are a lot more women. Great ones.
"The important things haven't changed, though. The BBC still provides an environment that allows you...
- 3/4/2015
- Digital Spy
BBC One comedy The Worst Week of My Life could be revived on stage. The original series - which aired between 2004 and 2006 - starred Ben Miller as the unfortunate Howard Steel, a groom-to-be caught up in a string of humiliating situations. Co-creators Mark Bussell told Radio 4's Front Row that he and fellow writer Justin Sbresni are developing a stage prequel to the sitcom, which also starred Sarah Alexander and Geoffrey Whitehead. "There's some talk at the moment about doing a stage play, which would be the prequel of the television series, so we would see that moment when Howard meets his prospective father-in-law for the first time," the writer revealed. "We would love to do it on television again, but it might well be that the stage version happens first." (more)...
- 1/9/2013
- by By Morgan Jeffery
- Digital Spy
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On Boxing day, Only Fools and Horses star Sir David Jason returns to the BBC after an absence of two decades. He takes on the role of Captain Guy Hubble, an ex-guardsman who is appointed as the royal bodyguard after he saves the Queen’s life. Jason’s character has a number of run-ins with his boss Colonel Dennis Whittington who fears that the mishap prone captain may place the monarch’s life in jeopardy.
The new sitcom is written by Mark Bussell and Justin Sbresni and produced by Jimmy Mulville for Hat Trick Productions. Appearing alongside Sir David Jason are Geoffrey Whitehead, Tim Downie and Timothy Bentinck. The first episode will air at 9.30 p.m. on 26 December. On BBC One.
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On Boxing day, Only Fools and Horses star Sir David Jason returns to the BBC after an absence of two decades. He takes on the role of Captain Guy Hubble, an ex-guardsman who is appointed as the royal bodyguard after he saves the Queen’s life. Jason’s character has a number of run-ins with his boss Colonel Dennis Whittington who fears that the mishap prone captain may place the monarch’s life in jeopardy.
The new sitcom is written by Mark Bussell and Justin Sbresni and produced by Jimmy Mulville for Hat Trick Productions. Appearing alongside Sir David Jason are Geoffrey Whitehead, Tim Downie and Timothy Bentinck. The first episode will air at 9.30 p.m. on 26 December. On BBC One.
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Culver City, Calif. – Hugh Grant will voice the lead role alongside an all-star cast in The Pirates! Band Of Misfits, the new stop-motion, 3D, animated film produced by Aardman Animations for Sony Pictures Animation. The film, which will be distributed by Columbia Pictures, will be released March 30, 2012 in North America.
Hugh Grant, starring in his first animated role, is the luxuriantly bearded Pirate Captain – a boundlessly enthusiastic, if somewhat less-than-successful, terror of the High Seas. With a rag-tag crew at his side (Martin Freeman, Brendan Gleeson, Russell Tovey, and Ashley Jensen), and seemingly blind to the impossible odds stacked against him, the Captain has one dream: to beat his bitter rivals Black Bellamy (Jeremy Piven) and Cutlass Liz (Salma Hayek) to...
Culver City, Calif. – Hugh Grant will voice the lead role alongside an all-star cast in The Pirates! Band Of Misfits, the new stop-motion, 3D, animated film produced by Aardman Animations for Sony Pictures Animation. The film, which will be distributed by Columbia Pictures, will be released March 30, 2012 in North America.
Hugh Grant, starring in his first animated role, is the luxuriantly bearded Pirate Captain – a boundlessly enthusiastic, if somewhat less-than-successful, terror of the High Seas. With a rag-tag crew at his side (Martin Freeman, Brendan Gleeson, Russell Tovey, and Ashley Jensen), and seemingly blind to the impossible odds stacked against him, the Captain has one dream: to beat his bitter rivals Black Bellamy (Jeremy Piven) and Cutlass Liz (Salma Hayek) to...
- 5/17/2011
- by Michelle McCue
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