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Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong on comedy endings

Peep Show has been running along on Channel 4 for 12 years. Is there anything its co-creators still haven't done to Mark and Jeremy?

Huw Fullerton, Radio Times, 11th November 2015

Tom Meeten & Mike Fielding talk tours

Here is what Tom Meeten and Mike Fielding told us about the live show [An Evening With Noel Fielding] and how the three of them work together. A glimpse through the stage curtains from a different angle, as it were.

The Velvet Onion, 9th November 2015

An Evening with Noel Fielding hits the road

One half of The Mighty Boosh takes his surrealist humour on tour and talks tennis line judges, after-show fun and peppermint tea.

Brian Donaldson, The List, 4th November 2015

Evolution of TV for British Asians according to Mr Khan

The issue of immigration is rarely out of the headlines and it was no different fifty years ago, when thousands of Indians and Pakistanis came to Britain.

In response, the BBC launched its Immigration Programme Unit designed to help newcomers cope with everyday situations.

Adil Ray, star and creator of the sitcom Citizen Khan, looks at how those early shows developed into programmes that reflect the lives of British Asians today.

Adil Ray, BBC News, 29th October 2015

Noel Fielding: the wackiest man in comedy

Noel Fielding isn't sure when the whole celebrity rock'n'roll comedian thing got out of hand. It may have been the time he was in a hotel room with Courtney Love and a few others and Pete Doherty burst in, placed a top hat full of kittens on the floor and ran out. It could be the evening he spent handing out surgical gloves to strangers with the Welsh actor Rhys Ifans.

Ed Potton, The Times, 24th October 2015

Video: Mackenzie Crook on finding TV gold

His hapless on-screen character might have little luck finding treasure but Mackenzie Crook has had no trouble scooping up prizes.

He wrote, directed, and starred in the comedy series Detectorists and landed two BAFTAs for the first season.

Ahead of the second series starting on BBC Four, Mackenzie told BBC Breakfast of why he thinks the show has done so well.

Detectorists starts again on BBC Four on Thursday 29 October.

BBC News, 21st October 2015

ITV2 risk offending with the title of their new show

Seriously though, the title is just asking for a full segment on BBC's Points Of View.

Hanna Flint, Metro, 20th October 2015

Noel Fielding interview

He worked 'incredibly hard' to elevate the Mighty Boosh to arena-filling world tours. Then they imploded, Luxury Comedy got cancelled and so did Never Mind The Buzzcocks. Noel Fielding frets about being 'in limbo', the possibility of children and being the next Spike Milligan.

Alice Jones, The Independent, 17th October 2015

Noel Fielding talks about his artwork

Noel Fielding is best known for his surreal style of humour but now he has an exhibition of his artwork on show in Harrogate.

Chris Bond, The Yorkshire Post, 15th October 2015

Brassed Off band make a comeback after avoiding closure

The Grimethopre Colliery Band's fight for survival when the coal mine closed in the early 1990s inspired the 1996 film Brassed Off. The band did survive - and now, enjoying a resurgence, are among the favourites for this weekend's brass band National Championships.

Ian Youngs, BBC News, 9th October 2015

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