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Phil Nice

  • Actor and writer

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When Michael Met Benny review

This sounds like a blatant pitch for one of Sky Arts' Urban Myths episodes: a dramatisation of what happened when Michael Jackson met Benny Hill.

Chortle, 4th March 2022

New podcast dramatises real-life meeting between Michael Jackson & Benny Hill

On February 22 1992 the King of Pop met the King of Comedy. Benny Hill was staying at the Brompton Hospital following a heart attack when he was visited by his number one fan - Michael Jackson. They talked for half an hour, making plans for Michael to star in a future TV series of The Benny Hill Show. But it was not to be; Benny Hill died on the April 20, less than two months later. Now, exactly thirty years later a new play When Michael Met Benny is being released as a free drama podcast, imagining just what took place in that hospital room.

Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 19th February 2022

Gina McKee, Jan Ravens and Phil Nice join Hebburn cast

Gina McKee, Jan Ravens and Phil Nice have been lined up to star alongside Jim Moir, Chris Ramsey and Kimberley Nixon in new six-part BBC Two comedy series, Hebburn.

BBC Press Office, 26th April 2012

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