“Howard is a megastar” ★★★★ The Times ★★★★ Evening Standard ★★★★ Metro ★★★★ The I ★★★★ Chortle ★★★★The Arts Desk 16th December 2020 – Following a sold-out and critically acclaimed UK arena run, Russell Howard is set to bring Respite to New Zealand in the New Year....
8th December 2020 - Channel 4 has commissioned Avalon to produce a new consumer series to help us save money in all aspects of our lives. Presenter and consumer journalist Anna Richardson will be joined by a crack team to show cash-strapped families how to reduce...
BAFTA WINNING TASKMASTER SOLD TO 106 COUNTRIES London – 9th December 2020 – After reaching its highest ratings on record with three million watching the tenth series premier on Channel 4, more countries have picked up Alex Horne’s BAFTA winning Taskmaster. TV4...
New series delivered to BBC One in early January Hot on the heels of the New Year’s Eve special, we re-join Lee (Lee Mack) and Lucy (Sally Bretton) as a neighbour’s delivery is left with them for safekeeping. When Lee unknowingly pulls apart the packaging only to...
JOHN HANNAH, KRISHNAN GURU-MURTHY, NICOLA COUGHLAN, RYLAN CLARK-NEAL, SHIRLEY BALLAS For the first time ever, the Taskmaster’s doors will be flung open to ring in the new year with a brand new, one-off special, ‘Taskmaster’s New Year Treat’ on Channel 4. The...
LONDON – Friday 27th November 2020 - The six-headed comedy band The Horne Section, fronted by star and creator of BAFTA winning Taskmaster Alex Horne, have released a charity Christmas single ‘Fiddly Christmas’ with all proceeds going to music therapy centre Nordoff...
It’s New Year’s Eve and we join Lee (Lee Mack) and Lucy (Sally Bretton), Lee’s lovably feckless father Frank (Bobby Ball), generally put upon Toby (Hugh Dennis), the ever uptight Anna (Abigail Cruttenden), Lucy’s occasionally pompous father Geoffrey (Geoffrey...
What the press said about Showbiz… "A beautifully confessional new show. His material continues to improve and this is possibly his BEST SHOW YET” Stephen Armstrong, Sunday Times “Real stand-up, real lightness of touch, real joy…” The Times, Dominic Maxwell “King of...
“Taskmaster is the show we need right now” ★★★★ Anita Singh, The Daily Telegraph “Charming, batshit, hilarious...That something so pointless, so silly, so endlessly daft should exist is just delightful” ★★★★ Lucy Mangan, The Guardian “I wish I had discovered it...
“hugely physical with his performances and relentlessly funny.” Iman Amrani, The Guardian “if anyone can put a smile on our face when it comes to the latest developments across the nation and around the globe, it's surely Russell Howard. Smart but with a more...
