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Stephen Hawking joins Brian Cox on Monty Python Live

Scientist Prof Stephen Hawking is teaming up with Monty Python for their reunion shows. Prof Hawking, director of research at Cambridge University's Centre for Theoretical Cosmology, will appear in the show at London's O2 with Prof Brian Cox.

Robin Ince prepares to take you In and Out of His Mind

The comedy boffin is pals with Brian Cox, has a TED talk under his belt and loves Rik Mayall.

Radio Times review

Television loves birthdays and anniversaries, so how much more exciting can it get than actually having an excuse to celebrate one of its own milestones with a special season of programmes? BBC Two is 50 years old this year (surely not, doesn't she look young?) and the festivities will be sprinkled across the schedules throughout the year.

Here Dara O'Briain and Pointless's Richard Osman hosts a 50th birthday quiz where celebrities are asked questions about BBC Two stars and programmes across the years. Guests include Hugh Dennis, Hairy Biker Dave Myers and Professor Brian Cox.

The Robin Ince three minute interview

Stand-Up comic Robin Ince isn't a name dropper. So Martin Walker will do some for him. In a 25 year long career he's worked with the likes of Chris Addison, Richard Dawkins, Ricky Gervais, Stewart Lee, Josie Long, Natalie Haynes, and (gulp) Brian Cox. He's currently touring his show, Robin Ince: In and Out of His mind.

Brian Cox and Robin Ince: Christmas head-to-head

Physicist Brian Cox squares up to Scrooge-like comic Robin Ince to argue Yuletide: yes or no?

Amnesty Secret Comedy Podcast episode 6

Recorded live at the Edinburgh fringe, host Jo Caulfield introduces standup Lloyd Langford on romantic weekends, Terry Alderton on ignorance and Stephen K Amos in comfortable shoes. Plus sketch comedy from The Ginge, The Geordie and The Geek, and Vikki Stone sings about clever DILF Brian Cox.

Four episodes in and this comedy about a deluded wannabe politician in the Scottish town of Broughty Ferry is still failing to live up to expectations. The books (and subsequent radio show) by Neil Forsyth have gained quite a following but this series is just not funny, despite the best efforts of Brian Cox in the title role. Tonight Servant, ahead of the by-election, messes up a television interview when answering a question about his political ambitions by saying he wants to be seen as Annie Lennox. His mother (Sheila Reid) doesn't help his cause by telling a journalist that her son has "a head full of mince".

Brian Cox has given life to a great new comic monster here, a man who blazes through life offending everyone in his path without ever losing his enormous self-belief. Neil Forsyth's comedy features the prize idiot previously known for his letter-writing in books and on Radio 4, who's now running chaotically for Parliament: Dundee cheeseburger magnate Bob Servant. Cox brilliant makes the most of an already very funny, bewilderingly silly script. "Phone the internet" and catch up with it...

This would-be politician is what you might call "in your face". His alphabet omits the letters P and C, and his self-opinion is so inflated he should be reported to Air Traffic Control. The sudden death of Broughty Ferry's sitting MP has sparked him into action; he's waited his whole life to be in the spotlight and he'll do and say anything to keep it shining on him.

This week Bob (Brian Cox) and his heroically inept campaign manager Frank meet slick opponent Nick Edwards, whose wife promises humiliation for Bob. It feels as though we should be rooting for the little guy - would that we had a vestige of sympathy for him.