For the first time ever, Lee Mack’s multi award-winning hit show, Not Going Out, is going out LIVE on BBC One this Christmas. With no room for slip ups or mistakes (no pressure then) we join Lee (Lee Mack) and Lucy (Sally Bretton) live from their festively decorated...
CATASTROPHE RETURNS TO CHANNEL 4 THIS JANUARY
About Series 3 ★★★★★ Catherine Gee, The Daily Telegraph ★★★★★ Joshua Rivera, Vulture Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney’s endlessly sharp comedy about the strange business of marriage and parenthood — remains something approaching a work of genius. Almost every line is...
AL MURRAY SCORES NEW QUIZ SHOW ON QUEST
LONDON, 7 November 2018 – Quest moves into comedy by commissioning its first comedy entertainment programme, Al Murray’s Great British Pub Quiz (21x60). Produced by Avalon and hosted by the multi-award-winning comedian behind the Pub Landlord, Al Murray’s Great...
CHANNEL 4 COMMISSIONS CAN I IMPROVE MY MEMORY? FROM AVALON
It was announced today (Tuesday 6th November) that Channel 4 has commissioned a brand new documentary competition hybrid, Can I Improve My Memory?, from Avalon (The Russell Howard Hour, Catastrophe, Taskmaster, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver). In Can I Improve My...
RUSSELL HOWARD ANNOUNCES BIGGEST EVER WORLD TOUR – 5 CONTINENTS, 24 COUNTRIES, 51 CITIES – TICKETS ON SALE THURSDAY 8TH NOVEMBER AT 10AM
What the international press said about Russell’s last stand-up tour, Round The World: “world domination is looming… he has grown darker, angrier and more satirical on stage. His sets deal with everything from foreign policy to his fear of death, and he rages as much...
HOST OF GLOBAL HIT SATIRICAL PODCAST, ANDY ZALTZMAN ROUNDS UP THE YEAR AT SOHO THEATRE WITH ‘2018: THE CERTIFIABLE HISTORY’
“Political comedy at its best” Stephen Armstrong, Sunday Times “Fiendishly sharp satirist” Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard Following a sell-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe and his third US tour earlier this year, Andy Zaltzman, host of the worldwide hit satirical...
MATT FORDE: BREXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP
“Possibly the best political comedy show on the Fringe” ★★★★★ Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph “Is there a better political comic than Matt Forde currently working in the UK? I can't think of another to touch him” ★★★★½ Jay Richardson, Chortle “grown into a stand-up...
TASKMASTER IN SEVENTH HEAVEN AS SERIES RECORDS AN ALL-TIME VIEWING HIGH
London - Tuesday 30th October 2018 – The current series of Taskmaster, Avalon’s award winning and critically acclaimed series on UKTV’s Dave, has eclipsed all previous series. The average Total Consumption per episode of series seven so far has reached 1.44 million ,...
IN RESPONSE TO SELL-OUT THREE WEEK SOHO THEATRE RUN, DOUBLE EDINBURGH COMEDY AWARD NOMINEE AHIR SHAH SET TO CULMINATE NATIONWIDE STAND-UP ‘DUFFER’ TOUR AT LONDON’S BLOOMSBURY THEATRE ON 4TH APRIL 2019
“intricately crafted, profoundly moving, howlingly funny... he’s a blazing talent firing on all cylinders” ★★★★★ Tristram Fane Saunders, The Telegraph “Duffer is a powerful account of his nan’s deportation to India in the Nineties, intersected with his own...
FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY AT THE LONDON COLISEUM, HOME OF ENGLISH NATIONAL OPERA, DRAG SUPERSTAR JONNY WOO PRESENTS HIS ‘ALL STAR BREXIT CABARET’
A stroke of genius ★★★★ Paul Vale, The Stage Magnificent ★★★★ Tim Cornwell, The Scotsman If only all Brexit debates were as fabulous as this Alice Jones, The I It was announced today that Drag Superstar Jonny Woo (Jonny Woo’s Un-Royal Variety Performance) and Olivier...