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Natalie Cassidy

  • English
  • Actor

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Boarders Series 3 is being written

Work on a third series of Boarders is underway, creator Daniel Lawrence Taylor has revealed, with the show's writers already "scribbling away" on prospective future episodes.

British Comedy Guide, 6th February 2025

Alan Cumming and Natalie Cassidy to guest star in Boarders Series 2

The second series of TV comedy drama Boarders, coming to BBC Three in February, will feature guest appearances from Alan Cumming and Natalie Cassidy.

British Comedy Guide, 8th January 2025

Ricky Gervais assembles cast for cat-based animation series

Ricky Gervais is overseeing a new animated series about "a bunch of cats", a project that sees him reunited with After Life stars including Kerry Godliman, David Earl, Tom Basden, Tony Way and Diane Morgan.

British Comedy Guide, 13th July 2024

James Acaster's spoof crime podcast Springleaf attracts all-star cast

James Acaster has launched his spoof true crime podcast, Springleaf, in which he plays his undercover cop alter-ego, Pat Springleaf, with a cast that includes Finn Wolfhard, Romesh Ranganathan, Katherine Ryan, Tom Allen, Sara Pascoe, Joe Lycett, Lolly Adefope, Nish Kumar, Rosie Jones, Guz Khan, Phil Wang, Ed Gamble, Josh Widdicombe, Sindhu Vee, Natalie Cassidy and Domhnall Gleeson.

British Comedy Guide, 21st November 2023

Baby Cow release new sitcom pilots

Two brand new digital comedy series from BBC Studios and Baby Cow Productions - The Train and What's Happening? - are being released online via YouTube and Facebook.

British Comedy Guide, 27th September 2022

Cast revealed for Diane Morgan's sitcom Mandy

Sean Lock will be amongst the guest stars appearing in Mandy, Diane Morgan's new comedy series.

British Comedy Guide, 22nd July 2020

Tim Vine & soap stars win first round of Let's Dance

Comedian Tim Vine and a quartet of soap stars - including Natalie Cassidy and Dean Gaffney - triumphed in the first round of Let's Dance For Comic Relief 2013 as the series got underway.

Caroline Westbrook, Metro, 16th February 2013

The impressions show with Morgana Robinson and Terry Mynott continues. The mimicry is good, especially Mynott's, but what they've found to say about their targets is disappointingly bland. Russell Brand talks like this. Natalie Cassidy's a bit dumpy. It's not enough. And there's got to be a less clunky way of introducing impressions than: "I'm Gordon Ramsay." We know. And if we can't tell, don't do the impression. Like so much that has gone before, VIP falls into the "sometimes clever but not that funny" category.

Julia Raeside, The Guardian, 11th May 2012

The showpiece of Channel 4's new Friday night comedy line-up is a brand new impressions show.

Morgana Robinson appears with one of her co-stars from The Morgana Show, Terry Mynott - a comedy actor so unfamous he doesn't even have his own Wikipedia page yet.

But he absolutely steals this first episode with his spot-on take of the BBC's favourite groovy scientist Professor Brian Cox, posing in front of areas of natural beauty wearing high street brands.

It's the voice that makes it so funny - and it's a parody that's cutting but sweetly affectionate too.

I doubt though that Bear Grylls will be as pleased with the job they've done on him as he tries to survive in the suburbs.

Mynott's take on David Attenborough explaining the lifestyle of Frankie Boyle is another zinger.

Behind the rubber masks, it can be hard to tell who's doing who.

Morgana impersonates men too. Her Russell Brand isn't a patch on her Natalie Cassidy, though.

Jane Simon, The Mirror, 27th April 2012

You can't help being trepidatious about this new impressions show. It's focused on the trashier end of celebrity, it stars Morgana Robinson and Terry Mynott, who received mixed reviews for The Morgana Show, and the fact that it's a new impressions show is worrying in itself.

Much of Very Important People is indeed cheap and derivative, leaning heavily on gaps filled with swearing and, in the case of doing Brian Cox as a preening fop, jokes that were dead and gone 12 months ago. But I must admit that Robinson's takes on Frankie Boyle, Danny Dyer and Natalie Cassidy had me spluttering merrily.

Jack Seale, Radio Times, 27th April 2012

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