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Just The Tonic announces Edinburgh Fringe shows
Just The Tonic's 2024 Edinburgh Fringe programme has announced 128 incredible shows so far with tickets on sale now.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 11th April 2024Eric: tales of the third sunday
It's the third Sunday of the Edinburgh Festival and if you are starting to flag a little, don't worry, that's normal. Because doing the Fringe - as a performer or a punter - is a magnificent thing, but it's also a tiring experience with inevitable lows among the highs.
As ThreeWeeks' Editors Award winner Eric explains in this timely story about his first year performing at the Festival all the way back in 2008, and what happened on the dreaded third Sunday.
Eric, ThreeWeeks, 18th August 2019Eric (just Eric) pays tribute to Ian Cognito
In the previous blog here, Becky Fury remembered Ian Cognito, who died while performing on stage last week. Now fellow comedian Eric (Just Eric) adds his own tribute...
Eric, John Fleming's Blog, 15th April 2019Erich McElroy Tops Trump review
US comic delivers winning political comedy.
Matthew Keeley, The Wee Review, 19th March 2018End game for Still Game's Eric
At 87, Jimmy Martin was the oldest of the actors on the hit BBC programme and, indeed, one of Scotland's oldest working actors. But, after admitting he was feeling the strain of the rigours of filming, he had asked to be written out of the show.
The Scotsman, 16th March 2018Five best moments from Still Game's Eric
From vomiting in Victor's car to having a wee accident in the Clansman, we look back at Eric's funniest moments in a tribute to one of Scotland's favourite TV pensioners.
Nicholas Keyden, Daily Record, 15th March 2018Eric, Ernie And Me review
It's not Christmas without Morecambe and Wise, but even you think you've seen everything the duo have done, this latest BBC Four comedy biopic offers a new perspective on their enduring partnership, through the prism of the contribution Eddie Braben made to the act.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 29th December 2017Eric, Ernie and Me, BBC Four review
The moving story of Morecambe and Wise's scriptwriter Eddie Braben, plus a gentle hour with Eric & Ernie's Home Movies.
Jasper Rees, The Arts Desk, 29th December 2017BBC re-writes history by faking Eric & Ernie's story
ATV/ITV made them mega TV successes and household names with Two of a Kind (1961-1968, written by Sid Green & Dick Hills) and that TV success was 'bought' by the BBC who offered them much more money and then made their shows 1968-1977 (written by Eddie Braben). The BBC bought them because they were already ratings successes and they built on that.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 29th December 2017Eddie Braben created the legend of Eric and Ernie
Neil Forsyth says "It was Eddie Braben who made them famous - and who paid the price."
Stephen Armstrong, Radio Times, 29th December 2017