Updated : Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:52:39 +0000
Fresh off the back of appearing on Scott Mills' Radio 1 Show this afternoon, Marion from Mongrels will be joining us for a live chat after the show at 11pm! Marion will be here to answer your questions, so if there's anything you want to know from a homeless tomcat, then be sure to join us on tonight at 11pm. Mongrels is on BBC Three every Monday at 10.30pm. Terms and Conditions: All comments are pre-moderated which may delay publication. It is not possible to publish all comments; only questions and/or comments of interest and relevance to the programme and its themes will be chosen. Do not include personal information in your comments (eg email addresses, telephone numbers); comments and questions will not be published if they contain personal information or if they contain material that may offend other users. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external websites linked from this page. And if you want to find out more, go to our Terms and Conditions site. More from Mongrels: Publ.Date : Mon, 28 Nov 2011 11:00:13 +0000
Festive greetings one and all! We interrupt our comedy programming to bring you this message from the folks at Jesting About 2: We’ve been really impressed with the responses we’ve had since launching our comedy initiative last month, with over 600 scripts and sketches sent in! Good luck to everyone who’s submitted their funny ideas. Successful applicants will be notified by Friday 9 December. If you’ve not heard from us by then, we’re afraid you’ve been unsuccessful this time and due to the large volume of applications, we won’t be able to give individual feedback. In the meantime, take a look at what some of last year’s participants thought on the BBC Writersroom Blog and check out Alex Collier’s animation Vic Reeves' Windiest Night Out, produced and commissioned as a result of last year’s Jesting About. View the full blog post to access video content. In order to see this content you need to have both Javascript enabled and Flash installed. Visit BBC Webwise for full instructions Publ.Date : Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:46:00 +0000
How about a bit of good news for the middle of the week? Yes? OK then - detective comedy Vexed has begun shooting the next series with stars Toby Stephens (Jane Eyre, Robin Hood, Cambridge Spies) playing D.I. Jack Armstrong, and Miranda Raison (Spooks, Merlin, Married Single Other) playing new character D.I. Georgina Dixon. The show is being filmed in Dublin and will air six episodes later this year on BBC Two. This series is definitely one to watch with creator Howard Overman (Misfits) at the helm & episodes written by Chris Bucknall, James Wood, Steve Coombes and Harry & Jack Williams. So, what's going on in series two I hear you ask? Well, D.I. Jack Armstrong has a new partner in the shape of D.I. Georgina Dixon. Armstrong is charming, disorganised and prone to laziness so it comes as no surprise that sparks fly when he's partnered with the ambitious and highly efficient Dixon. Jack's best friend, café-owner and ex-cop Tony (Roger Griffiths) and colleague Naz (Ronny Jhutti) complete the crime solving team. Episode one sees the duo tackle the murder of a cocky car salesman, but things are not quite as they seem. Chris Sussman, Executive Producer for the BBC, said: 'We're very much looking forward to the return of Vexed. The second series promises to be just as much fun as the first, and with Miranda Raison joining Toby Stephens as new partner D.I. Dixon, we're hoping it's going to be all guns blazing.' Jill Green, Executive Producer, Eleventh Hour Films added "In a recession we need shows that make us laugh, and that's where Vexed fits in - a perfectly distinctive 'yin yang' take on modern day life." If you just can't wait for the next series to air, here's a clip from the last episode of series one: In order to see this content you need to have both Javascript enabled and Flash installed. Visit BBC Webwise for full instructions. If you're reading via RSS, you'll need to visit the blog to access this content. Publ.Date : Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:00:00 +0000
Roll up! Roll up! Roll up! On Monday 14th November, the BBC Radio Theatre at Broadcasting House will host a spectacular night of comedy with all proceeds going to Children in Need. A whole host of top comedy performers have offered up their services to the charity, so please come along to West London and join in the fun - all in the name of a great cause: On the night you'll be treated to Alex Horne and the fantastic Horne Section as house band ("Fresh, original and blissfully funny" - Time Out), who will be playing lots of games with both the audience and the performers. They will be joined by the incomparable Miles Jupp (as seen in Rev, The Thick of It and soon to be heard in his own Radio 4 sitcom, In And Out Of The Kitchen) and Josh Widdicombe (Stand Up For The Week, 8 Out Of 10 Cats). Also tearing up Broadcasting House: Doc Brown ("Mining a rich seam of hip-hop comedy" - The Guardian; Check out his BBC Comedy clips. Jason Cook ("Wonderfully life-affirming, a total and utter joy" - Time Out) Angela Barnes (Winner of Radio 2's New Comedy Award) 2 Episodes of Mash (as heard in their own show on Radio 2, whilst Joe Wilkinson can currently be seen in Him and Her) Gareth Richards (co-host of Frank Skinner's radio show and Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer nominee) Joe Lycett (Star of BBC One's Epic Win) Peter Serafinowicz (Star of BBC2's aptly named The Peter Serafinowicz Show) Nick Helm (Best Joke Winner at this year's Edinburgh Fringe) For more info and to buy tickets visit A Night of Spectacular Comedy. 100% of the ticket price will go to the BBC Children in Need Appeal (Registered charity England & Wales no. 802052 and Scotland no. SC039557) Please note: This event is now being held at BBC Broadcasting House and not the Shepherds Bush Empire. Ticketweb will inform all those who have already bought tickets. Publ.Date : Fri, 04 Nov 2011 12:38:00 +0000
The celebrated stories of PG Wodehouse will be coming to life on BBC One as Timothy Spall and Jennifer Saunders star in Blandings, a new comedy series written by Guy Andrews and based on Wodehouse's work. PG Wodehouse is hailed as one of the greatest comic writers in the English Language, and Controller of BBC One, Danny Cohen is very excited about bringing the tales to a new generation of TV viewers. Describing the series Guy Andrews said: "Blandings Castle is dysfunction junction, the home of a chaotic family struggling to keep itself in order. Clarence Emsworth, ninth earl and master of Blandings Castle, yearns with all his soul to be left in peace; preferably in the company of his beloved pig, The Empress. But he never is. There is always someone who wants him to do something. Presiding over the blitzkrieg on his equilibrium is the baleful figure of his sister Connie, with whom he shares the house; at her shoulder is Clarence's brainless younger son Freddie and a panoply of friends, enemies, servants, spongers, private detectives, bookies and confidence tricksters. "Only Beach, his loyal and long-suffering butler, provides consolation. Storm-battered Clarence, somehow never vanquished, occasionally makes everything right through an inspired or accidental intervention. "For any writer, it is the rarest privilege imaginable to have Wodehouse legitimately available as source material. Instead of just stealing from him as we usually do.' The six self-contained episodes will be set 1929, and will be filmed on location in Northern Ireland with the support of Northern Ireland Screen. Timothy Spall will play the amiable and befuddled Lord Emsworth (Clarence to his friends), with Jennifer Saunders as his indomitable sister Connie. The series will be produced by Spencer Campbell (Cold Feet, Mad Dogs) and directed by Paul Seed (BAFTA winning Just William). The show is a co-production with Mammoth Screen and the BBC. Publ.Date : Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:50:00 +0000
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