Mel Giedroyc

Latitude line-up announced

The first batch of names for this year's Latitude Festival has been announced today.

Radio Times review

Sue Perkins is stepping out without comedy partner Mel Giedroyc to host a new comedy panel show. And no, we haven't become terrible writers who forget to tell you what the show is called - Insert Name Here is, in fact, a name game. Perkins picks a name - let's say Paul, or even Mary, for example - and two teams captained by Richard Osman and Josh Widdicombe battle it out with as much wit and wisdom about that name, and the famous people who've shared it. Our money's on Team Osman - he has already proven he's a font of Pointless information.

Talk about broadening your remit. Usually, C4's Big Fat Quizzes are merely satisfied with tackling year-sized slices of pop culture and current affairs. This time, though, Jimmy Carr rocks up with a panel game covering a whopping 100,000 years of human history. Guests including Mel Giedroyc, Richard Ayoade, Noel Fielding and Chelsea Peretti attempt to wring whimsy from historical happenings such as witch hunting, landmarks in the biological sciences and - nostalgia alert - 1970s board games.

Sue Perkins is right: losing friends to relationships hurts

It didn't surprise me when the presenter talked of the loss she felt when Mel Giedroyc got married. We don't talk enough about this side of friendship.

Stephen Fry & Mel Giedroyc to join Rocky Horror cast

The stars will join Richard O'Brien for a one-off special gala performance on 17 September.

Q&A: Mel Giedroyc, TV presenter

'My guiltiest pleasure? Fig rolls. While watching Downton. Nude'

Ed Byrne and Jo Brand for Great Comic Relief Bake Off

16 new celebrities will be feeling the heat of Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry this February, but at least they'll have four presenters in the Bake Off tent to sweeten the deal. Regular Great British Bake Off presenters Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins will be joined by comedians Ed Byrne and Jo Brand.

Radio Times review

This show's teams are so quick and on-the-comedy-ball, some guests barely get a look in. In this edition, it's Adil Ray - of Citizen Khan - who takes a back seat as the likes of Bob Mortimer and Lee Mack steer the WILTY charabanc to unlikely places.

Mortimer is on great form, making out that as a teenager he was banished from Castle Douglas for frightening the locals. As he piles on implausible details (a friend called Steve Bytheway, latex masks, and so on) with a straight face, you can't help feeling he's taken his flight of fancy too far. Or is it the old trick of elaborating an anecdote to make it sound ridiculous?

Also peddling tall tales are Kian Egan from Westlife, who may or may not have bid for his own waxwork, and Mel Giedroyc with, suitably enough, a cake-based story. It involves David Bowie.

Mel and Sue to get daytime chat show

Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins will host their first chat show for 16 years.

ITV Daytime has commissioned a new show hosted by the pair, who have gained popularity recently thanks to their amusing on-screen patter on BBC One's Great British Bake Off.

The show, which is yet to be titled, will air daily and see Giedroyc and Perkins joined by British celebrities and members of the public.