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Fatherhood With My Father review
Jack Whitehall's new show with his dad is yet more predictable generation-gap banter.
Katie Rosseinsky, The Independent, 10th September 2024
Fatherhood With My Father review
Jack Whitehall's shtick has worn unwatchably thin.
Nick Duerden, i Newspaper, 10th September 2024
Fatherhood With My Father review
The Netflix series is a repetitive globetrotting antic that isn't really that amusing.
Tim Glanfield, The Times, 10th September 2024
Lost Voice Guy Lee Ridley completes the Great North Run
Lost Voice Guy, otherwise known as Lee Ridley, completed the Great North Run on Sunday.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 10th September 2024
Ricky Gervais is locked in planning row with his neighbours over plans for 'noisy' tennis court
Ricky Gervais' neighbours are not amused by his plans for a 'noisy' tennis court with seating for fans at his new £14 million-plus home.
Richard Eden, Daily Mail, 10th September 2024
Kiri Pritchard-McLean: Peacock review
Delivered with poise, it wears its heart on its sequinned sleeve but retains a consistent and punchy gag rate.
Jay Richardson, The Reviews Hub, 10th September 2024
Why left-wing comedy isn't funny
Under a Starmer Government, Labour-supporting 'satirists' serve no purpose.
Michael Deacon, The Telegraph, 10th September 2024
Good Omens: production paused on Amazon drama from Neil Gaiman
News about the future of Good Omens comes less than a week after Disney put a planned feature adaptation of Gaiman's 2008 YA title The Graveyard Book on pause amid a series of sexual assault allegations against the award-winning author. (Insiders said multiple factors went into the decision.) Gaiman has denied the allegations and said he was "disturbed" by them.
Lynette Rice, Deadline, 10th September 2024
Unsolved Fawlty Towers mystery #1834793
What's the most oft-told tale of a Fawlty Towers recording session going a little wrong? The answer is surely the famous anecdote concerning The Builders. John Cleese has told the tale many times, with varying levels of insults directed at Icelanders.
Dirty Feed, 10th September 2024
Rosie Jones had to 'fight' to be heard on male-dominated comedy shows - so she's fronting her own
The queer comedian has been on stage or beavering away behind the scenes in the comedy industry for the best part of a decade, but it's only over the past five years or so that she's become part of the furniture on British TV.
Marcus Wratten, Pink News, 10th September 2024
James Corden reunites with Sheridan Smith for Gavin & Stacey finale
It has been confirmed that Sheridan Smith will be returning to Gavin & Stacey for the show's final ever episode, which will air over Christmas 2024. In the show, Sheridan plays Rudi, Smithy's sister with whom he regularly clashes.
Emmy Griffiths, Hello Magazine, 10th September 2024
Gavin & Stacey cast spotted filming in wedding outfits
The cast of Gavin & Stacey have been pictured in wedding attire as they film the show's last ever episode set to air this Christmas.
The Sun, 10th September 2024
Ahir Shah: 'The idea that British tolerance was linked to the EU is nonsense'
One of the brightest stars of UK stand-up talks about Rishi Sunak, racist heckling and why he now feels upbeat about the future.
Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph, 10th September 2024
A powerful sense of dread: The inevitable darkness of Peep Show and the voices in our heads
Its jokes have lived in my brain since I was a teenager (imagine a nerdy little schoolboy running around yelling "It was a lampoon! A simple lampoon!" while his friends run away and you've got my childhood), and I've watched the early series so many times that some lines feel like my own thoughts (although unlike Mark, I'm usually thinking about Lyndon B Johnson instead of Stalingrad). But do I *love* Peep Show? When it comes to something so profoundly dark, so beautifully bleak, is love even possible?
Jack Bernhardt, Jack Bernhardt via Medium, 10th September 2024
Stewart Lee: 'I reluctantly accept that I've been very influential'
Comedians like Ricky Gervais and Jimmy Carr present themselves as edgy free speech warriors - but they're actually very mainstream, says Lee.
Graeme Green, Prospect Magazine, 10th September 2024Ben Elton review - a genius, and a grumpy old git
Performing at Symphony Hall, Birmingham, the trim, still motormouthed 65-year-old's view of the silliness of modern society is panoramic and microscopic.
Dominic Maxwell, The Times, 10th September 2024Videos
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6am60 min
Ahir Shah: Ends
Ahir Shah brings his multi-award-winning stand-up show Ends to Netflix.
6am43 min
Jack Whitehall: Fatherhood With My Father
Episode 1 - BirthWith the arrival of his child just weeks away, Jack attends an antenatal class and experiences a simulated birth, reluctantly accompanied by his father.
6am41 min
Jack Whitehall: Fatherhood With My Father
Episode 2 - TechnologyFour weeks into fatherhood, Jack meets a humanoid AI and steps into the metaverse to find out what tech might look like in his daughter's future.
6am41 min
Jack Whitehall: Fatherhood With My Father
Episode 3 - SurvivalJack embarks on a quest to learn how to protect his family, which takes him from a preppers' school in Utah to a survivalist community in Kansas.
6am41 min
Jack Whitehall: Fatherhood With My Father
Episode 4 - LongevityFrom biohacking to blue zones, Jack looks into the science behind longevity, while Michael maintains that it's the quality of life that matters most.
5:35pm25 min
Pickle Storm
Episode 2 - What's School?Still adjusting to life on Earth, Pickle faces a new challenge - her first day at school.