David Walliams

A second term of tomfoolery for David Walliams's school sitcom, and changes are afoot. Bullet-brained games teacher Mr Gunn takes on geography with an aplomb that doesn't quite extend to learning how to pronounce the word, while music teacher Mr Martin is treating classes to a PR campaign promoting his pop career. Comfortingly, though, Walliams's Mr Church is as clueless as ever when wooing Catherine Tate's Miss Postern. As big, broad sitcoms go, this is amiable fare.

Radio Times review

The first series of David Walliams's classroom sitcom launched to high hopes and high ratings. That might be because so many of us still have our fingers crossed that either Walliams or Matt Lucas will at some point recall, in a small way, the comic heights they reached in Little Britain.

Ratings slipped as people realised Big School wasn't the moment we could uncross our fingers, but is instead an old-fashioned, likeable enough, broadish sort of comedy full of familiar joke-teacher figures (the macho gym master, the intimidating head) and the odd good gag.

As a new term starts, Mr Church (Walliams) still holds a candle for Miss Postern (Catherine Tate) and at assembly, Frances de la Tour delivers a welcome speech: "As your headmistress, I offer you one word of friendly advice: cross me and I will destroy you."

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TV preview: Big School

David Walliams, Catherine Tate, Frances De La Tour, Joanna Scanlan, Philip Glenister and that bloke form the BT adverts. You can't fault the cast of Big School, which returns for a second run. The challenge is making something mainstream enought for primetime BBC One but still interesting enough so that the talented performers don't sleepwalk through it.

New David Walliams novel to be 'Awful Auntie'

The book, described as having "all the hallmarks of a Walliams classic and a cast of unforgettable characters", is about young Lady Stella Saxby and how her Awful Aunt Alberta tries to cheat her out of her inheritance. But Stella has Soot, the cockney ghost of a chimney sweep, and is determined to fight back.

David Walliams: I really want to be Simon's helper

David Walliams jokes he 'won't be Simon Cowell's favourite girl on X Factor any more'.

David Walliams and Miranda Hart sign BBC Worldwide deal

A production company, part-owned by David Walliams and Miranda Hart, has signed a deal with BBC Worldwide to send its shows round the globe.

The first of three programmes looking at the enduring affection for Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais's classic prison sitcom Porridge. Eric Idle, Keith Allen, David Walliams, Ronnie Corbett and Ian McShane join together in celebration of Ronnie Barker's iconic lag Norman Stanley Fletcher beneath a voiceover from former co-star David Jason. La Frenais and Clement dissect their own rather sterling work while original locations are visited, as is the little-known story of how the show very nearly never reached the screen.