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Laura Aikman joins cast of Bluestone 42

Laura Aikman (The Job Lot) is to star in Bluestone 42. Joining the team later in the run of Series 3, Laura plays new arrival Ellen Best, a high-threat-bomb disposal expert who couldn't be less like the rest of them if she tried.

BBC, 28th January 2015

Boy band Blue fooled in new prank show

Boy band Blue are the unwitting fools of a new prank show, in which they attempt to run a beach-front bar in Ibiza staffed by comic actors.

British Comedy Guide, 6th November 2014

Michael Downey: Blue Sometimes

Michael Downey talks about the waiting period before the Edinburgh Festival starts.

British Comedy Guide, 30th July 2014

Fringe preview: Butterfly in Shades of Blue

Writer Ed Penney and director Allan Wilcox visit the Fringe for the first time this year with their romcom Butterfly in Shades of Blue. Ed is a retired dentist who has laid down his probe and picked up his pen and is now a full time writer and Allan is a retired English teacher.

The Public Reviews, 3rd July 2014

Rik Mayall remembered by irreverent blue plaque

A makeshift blue plaque commemorating the late comic actor Rik Mayall has appeared in Hammersmith Broadway.

Rebecca Hawkes, The Telegraph, 10th June 2014

Tony Hancock gets blue plaque on 90th birthday

English Heritage have unveiled a blue plaque at a former home of Tony Hancock ahead of his 90th birthday today.

British Comedy Guide, 12th May 2014

Series 2 of Bluestone 42 was a triumph

Bluestone 42 continues its march towards being one of the funniest programmes on TV. Thank goodness that Series 2 is currently being trained to be deployed in the coming year. Don't miss it.

Stephen Shirres, Culture Jam, 22nd April 2014

Blue Jam: An ethereal mix

Chris Morris's radio gem Blue Jam starts not with a bang, but a sob.

Neil Kennedy, Digital Spy, 21st March 2014

Bluestone 42: New challenges in our second series

I'm the producer of Bluestone 42, a comedy set in Afghanistan, following a bomb disposal detachment. I was incredibly excited to get working on series two, having had such a brilliant time on the first series.

Michelle Farr, BBC Blogs, 20th March 2014

Hugh Bonneville on bringing blue-sky thinking to BBC

"I did have to giggle to myself when I found a producer hiding in a stairwell trying to do a deal with some contributor on the phone because it was the only place to get a bit of privacy. I think the idea of being able to go to your own thought-space in the BBC is probably a thing of the past."

Eddie Mair, Radio Times, 19th March 2014

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