British Comedy Guide

Deborah Meaden

  • English
  • Business person and television personality

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Taskmaster's New Year Treat review

A magical, miraculous hour guaranteed to lighten your mood.

Jack Seale, The Guardian, 2nd January 2024

Taskmaster New Year Treat 2024 line-up revealed

Deborah Meaden, Kojey Radical, Lenny Rush, Steve Backshall and Zoe Ball will take part in a one-off Taskmaster special on Channel 4 this festive season.

British Comedy Guide, 23rd November 2023

The Stand announces final batch of Edinburgh Fringe shows

After a tempestuous couple of years resulting in one missed Fringe in 2020 and one barely recognisable one in 2021, The Stand release their final batch of shows for the 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 30th May 2022

Mandy review

These 15-minute episodes are like extended sketches, a comedy form that is almost never seen now. Morgan, who writes and directs the show as well as being its central character, has done a splendid job of repairing and restoring the format.

Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail, 6th January 2022

Mandy review

Thesps given timely mocking by Dragons' star.

Carol Midgley, The Times, 6th January 2022

Mandy, BBC2, review

Diane Morgan's comedy is knife-sharp, gleefully silly and a bit tired.

Gwendolyn Smith, i Newspaper, 5th January 2022

Mandy starring Diane Morgan to return for Series 2

BBC Two has ordered a second series of Mandy, the comedy created by and starring Diane Morgan. Filming is underway, with guest stars set to include Anna Maxwell Martin, Nick Mohammed, Sir Tom Courtenay, Alexei Sayle and Nigel Planer.

British Comedy Guide, 29th July 2021

Brendan O'Carroll throws on the cardigan and curlers to welcome TV Dragons Peter Jones and Deborah Meaden into the den. Tonight''s other interviewees are musical collaborators Sting and Shaggy, This Morning chef-turned-Italian Escape artist Gino D'Acampo and Loose Woman Christine Lampard.

Mark Gibbings-Jones, The Guardian, 2nd June 2018

Preview - Insert Name Here

When Sue Perkins-fronted panel show Insert Name Here began earlier this year, there was not that much notice taken of it, which was a shame as it was one of the better efforts in terms of panel shows.

Ian Wolf, On The Box, 21st December 2016

As this week's guest Deborah Meaden discovers, resisting Harry Hill's tide of daftness is futile. Tonight's surreal simulacrum of shiny-floor show hysteria incorporates a gay wedding for dogs ("a first for Sky, I believe," says Hill, dryly) and an unhinged rendition of Pulp's Disco 2000. Its closest relation is probably the finely calibrated mayhem of Shooting Stars, and while it never reaches that show's levels of inspired chaos, it's still a quirky Sunday evening offering.

Phil Harrison, The Guardian, 13th November 2016

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