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Guests announced for The Keith and Paddy Picture Show
Anna Friel, Kimberley Wyatt and Stephen Tompkinson will be amongst the guests on The Keith and Paddy Picture Show, the new TV format starring Keith Lemon and Paddy McGuinness.
British Comedy Guide, 27th January 2017W1A Series 3 set to start filming
The BBC has confirmed via a comical press release that sitcom W1A is to return for a third series. Filming starts in February.
British Comedy Guide, 25th January 2017Cobie Smulders & Jessica Hynes star in Songbird
Filming is under way on Songbird, a new British comedy film about the lead singer of an indie rock band who goes back to university. Cobie Smulders and Jessica Hynes lead the cast.
British Comedy Guide, 15th January 2017W1A Series 3 to be filmed in February 2017
Series 3 of BBC sitcom W1A is to begin filming in February 2017.
British Comedy Guide, 11th November 2016Jessica Hynes interview
The Spaced star says how'd she'd change the BBC, and the comedies you should be watching.
Ben Dowell, Radio Times, 7th October 2016Jessica Hynes writing series about a female superhero
The character was initially developed for Sky Atlantic but the Spaced, W1A and Up the Women star has not given up hope of bringing her martial arts heroine to the small screen.
Ben Dowell, Radio Times, 3rd October 2016With the Beeb currently, and in some cases ill-advisedly, reworking classic sitcoms, here's a tie-in quiz show hosted by Ben Miller in which celebrity funny folk test their knowledge of the genre that made them famous. Jennifer Saunders, Stephen Mangan, Jessica Hynes and Lee Mack are among the contestants. As Pointless fans will attest, however, celebrities are useless at quizzes - none of the luminaries get the Reg Varney question, an old pub quiz chestnut.
David Stubbs, The Guardian, 9th September 2016Jessica Hynes: I would tell my young self to chill out
Jessica Hynes on being a serious teenager, family holidays - and the life lessons she learnt as a waitress.
Eamonn Forde, The Big Issue, 5th September 2016Jessica Hynes interview
The actor on celebrity gossip, cheap clothes and that Pudsey The Dog movie
Rosanna Greenstreet, The Guardian, 13th August 2016BBC3's new logo has taken some branding tips from W1A
BBC Three has unveiled a new logo - basically some Roman numerals mashed with an exclamation mark - and we can't help but feel it looks a bit familiar. Namely, it closely resembles a redesign of a logo created in BBC parody W1A, pitched to the Corporation by Jessica Hynes' nightmarish Head of Brand Siobhan Sharpe.
Huw Fullerton, Radio Times, 4th January 2016