BBC radio announces more new comedies
BBC Radio 4 and digital radio station BBC 7 have announced details about a number of new and returning comedy series.
Details are below...
The Unbelievable Truth
The panel game built on truth and lies returns to Radio 4. David Mitchell (Peep Show, That Mitchell and Webb Look) returns as host of the panel game in which four guests deliver a lecture on a specialist subject which is made almost completely of lies, but also try to smuggle in some truths without being spotted.
Guests in previous series include Graeme Garden (co-creator of the show), Alan Davies, Clive Anderson, Frankie Boyle, Jeremy Hardy, Jo Brand, Jo Caulfield and Marcus Brigstocke.
Double Science
A new Radio 4 sitcom starring Ben Willbond (Deep Trouble, Starter for Ten) and Justin Edwards (The Thick of It, The Consultants) as Colin Jackson and Kenneth Farley-Pitman, two incompetent science teachers working at a sixth form college which specialises in arts and drama. The show also co-stars Rebecca Front (The Day Today, Big Train) as ambitious boss Alison Hatton and Raza Jaffery (Spooks, Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee) as smarmy art teacher Danny Woods.
The Big Show
Again starring Justin Edwards, this time alongside stand-up Stephen K. Amos and The IT Crowd's Katherine Parkinson, this new Radio 4 sketch show deals with all issues in life, whether they are big or small.
The Idiot Pebbles
Another Radio 4 sketch show. It stars Rhys Thomas, Lucy Montgomery (both from Down the Line) and Tony Way (Fun at the Funeral Parlour) as a fictitious sketch group looking back at the highs and lows of their 30 year career.
Tilt
New to BBC 7, Tilt, is a satirical sketch show that rather than tackling the week's events in the normal way, examines news stories at a slightly different angle. All the sketches are set "Behind the scenes", as to give the impression of what the story really is about.
Spats
A second series of this BBC 7 sketch show in which two sides battle to decide which is better. In the previous series, it was decided that mankind was better than nature, the arts were better than science, atheism was better than religion and that 'Something else' was better than love.
The forthcoming spats in the second series will be Apathy vs. Effort, Men vs. Women, Us vs. Them and The Living vs. The Dead. The winners will face the series one winners in series three.
The Now Show
The immensely popular topical satire show hosted by Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis returns for a 24th series.
Hut 33
As reported by us previously, this sitcom set in Bletchley Park in 1941, is back for a second series. It focuses on three code-breakers forced to share a draughty wooden hut as they try to break German ciphers. Unfortunately they hate one another. The characters are played by Robert Bathurst, Tom Goodman-Hill and Fergus Craig.
Tickets for many of these shows, and others, can be booked for free via the BBC tickets website.