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EDINBURGH FESTIVAL LINE UP
Check the dates and book tickets for the must-see shows:
+ ED FEST '08
MIKE WILMOT SOHO THEATRE RUN ANNOUNCED
Internationally acclaimed Canadian Comedian and Time Out Comedy Award winner
+ MIKE WILMOT has announced a short run of dates at London's Soho Theatre
from Thursday 12th until Saturday 14th June. Buy tickets at + sohotheatre.com
SIMON EVANS SOHO THEATRE RUN ANNOUNCED
BBC Radio 4's 'News Quiz' regular + SIMON EVANS will be performing his debut run at the Soho Theatre from Wednesday 13th until Saturday 16th August. 'Very skilful, distinctly funny, delightfully sarcastic' Time Out. Buy tickets at + sohotheatre.com
IAN MOORE
A promo starring Ian Moore for the bestselling book, The Mumper, by Mark Baxter and Paolo Hewitt. A heart-warming tale of seven friends and a racehorse...
+ WATCH MOVIE
DARA O'BRIAIN
+ DARA O'BRIAIN Will be joining + JONATHAN ROSS this Saturday on his BBC Radio 2 show from 10am to promote his three nights at the
world famous Hammersmith Apollo on Monday 12th, Friday 16th and Saturday 17th May.
FREE EDINBURGH FESTIVAL TICKETS
Open MIke Productions to record four comedy specials for BBC Radio at this years Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
'Sean Lock & Friends At The Fringe' will be recorded at the
Assembly Rooms on Monday 11th August at 8pm and 10pm for BBC RADIO2.
Previous years have been hosted by Alan Carr, Dara O'Briain and Lee Mack with an all star line-up
from the Fringe. Also the Chortle award winning + MICHAEL MCINTYRE will be hosting two stand-up specials -
'4 At The Fringe' featuring guests from the festival at the Pleasance Beyond
on Wednesday 13th August at 7.30pm and 10.30pm for BBC RADIO4.
Free tickets to see all four recordings can be obtained via the BBC RADIO2 and BBC RADIO4 websites
NEW TALENT JOINS OTK
+ JOHN GORDILLO joins the ranks of O.T.K.P. and will be heading off to the Edinburgh Festival with his new one man show in August. His Fringe show - 'Divide & Conga' will be playing for the duration of
the festival at the Pleasance Joker Dome.
Dara O'Briain, Sean Lock & Brendon Burns - DVD release dates this Autumn
Open MIke Productions will be releasing through Universal Pictures the following DVDs. Dara O'Briain - Monday 10th November and Sean Lock - Monday 17th November. Both will be recorded at the world famous
Hammersmith Apollo in May. Brendon Burns DVD- which is to be recorded at the Duchess Theatre in London's West End will be out on Monday 17th November .
Titles for the DVDs have yet to be announced but you can pre-order at AMAZON.CO.UK for Dara O'Briain, PLAY.COM for Sean Lock and AMAZON.CO.UK for Brendon Burns.
JACK DEE SIGNS BOOK DEAL
Transworld have won the hotly contested auction to publish Jack Dee after pursuing him for nearly 3 years. It won't come as much of a surprise to hear that the book, to be published
by Doubleday in Autumn 2009, will be packed with Jack's views on the world and what he finds wrong with it. "I'm delighted to be associated with Transworld, especially now I know that they are a
prestigious publishing house and not a dodgy sex shop in King's Cross," says Dee.
JACK DEE
Jack to host the first in the new series of the award winning 'Have I Got News For You' on Friday 18th April on BBC1 at 9pm.
LEE EVANS
Lee Evans to play fifth record breaking night at the London 02 Arena on the 19th November 2008.
Congratulations to Lee Evans for recapturing the number 1 slot in the UK DVD Comedy Charts for his box set - 'Lee Evans - Complete Live Comedy Collection 1994 - 2005'. Sales have now reached over 250,000 and is a UK record for a comedy box set.
MICHAEL MCINTYRE
Michael will be on Have I Got News For You on the 29th May.
PHILL JUPITUS
Phill Jupitus to debut in West End play - 'Life Coach' at the Trafalgar Studios from Tuesday 20th May until the Saturday 14th June. Written and directed by Nick Reed and co-starring
Amy Darcy.
Box office 0870 0606632
+ TRAFALGARSTUDIOS
NEW TALENT JOINS OTK
+ STEVE WEINER, Hackney Empire’s New Act of the Year 2008, joins Off The Kerb. Weiner’s “keen observational wit” (Chortle) marries energy and intelligence which suggests “a bright future” (Evening Standard). Look out for him at a Comedy Club near you…
ALAN CARR - FRIDAY NIGHT PROJECT
+ ALAN CARR and Justin Lee Collins return to
Channel 4 with a brand new series of 'The Friday Night
Project' in the new time slot of 10pm.
CAPTAIN SEAN LOCK
+ SEAN LOCK returns as team Captain with Channel 4's '8 Out Of 10
Cats' in June for 6 new shows.
DAVE FULTON
Check out his new TV pilot - 'A Year of Eating Dangerously'.
+ WATCH MOVIE
BRENDON BURNS DEBUT DVD
Tickets go on sale on Friday 21st March for the filming of + BURNS's debut DVD. Live from the Duchess Theatre in London's West End on Sunday 1st June.
The show features two sets including a best of the Edinburgh Festival with material from the
last 10 years as well as his award-winning If.Comedy show from 2007.
Box office: 020 7632 9600.
CHORTLE AWARDS
Congratulations to the following acts for winning at the Chortle Awards
MICHAEL MCINTYRE
Signs with BBC/Open Mike Productions
to host a new game show pilot to be recorded this year.
ALAN CARR BOOK DEAL
+ ALAN's signed a publishing deal with Harper
Collins to write his autobiography for release in hardback in the Autumn.
LEE EVANS BIG TOUR 2008
+ LEE extends his run at the Brighton
Centre with two new dates during the Paramount Brighton Comedy Festival on Tues 7th & Wed 8th Oct. Tickets go on sale on Mon 25th Feb at 10am.
+ TOUR DATES
DARA O'BRIAIN TOUR
Outstanding public demand has forced Dara to add a third night to his run at
the London Hammersmith Apollo on Mon 12th May.
+ TOUR DATES
LEE TOPS HMV COMEDY CHART
Lee is at No. 1 in the HMV
comedy charts. Lee Evans - Complete Live Comedy Collection - Special Edition. 6 DVD/2 CD box set 1994-2005.
+ BUY LEE'S BOX SET NOW FROM PLAY
+ BUY LEE'S BOX SET NOW FROM AMAZON
ALAN CARR TOOTH FAIRY LIVE
Is at No. 2 in the HMV comedy charts with his debut DVD - 'Alan Carr - Tooth Fairy Live'.
+ GET 'TOOTH FAIRY LIVE' NOW FROM PLAY
+ BUY IT NOW FROM AMAZON
FILM 2008 WITH JONATHAN ROSS
Every Tuesday night on BBC 1 from 11.05pm
FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY MORNING... WITH JONATHAN ROSS
Want to know who's in the Green Room? Take a peek at JONATHAN'S GUEST LIST
CONGRATULATIONS LEE EVANS!
For winning the 'Theatregoers Choice Award' for his role in Harold
Pinter's - 'The Dumb Waiter'.
RETURN OF LEAD BALLOON
Watch out for the third series this Autumn and the Christmas Special.
+ EXCELLENT REVIEWS FOR LEAD BALLOON
RICH HALL
Coming soon: RICH HALL is to present a documentary about the history of the Western for BBC 4 made by Open Mike Productions. Watch this space...
Look out for Rich in a new Cillian Murphy and Sienna Miller movie Hippie Hippie Shake to be released later this year.
MARCUS BRIGSTOCKE DVD
Following a totally sold out run with a live version of his TV show The Late Edition at the Edinburgh Festival last year, award-winning stand-up MARCUS BRIGSTOCKE, of We Are History, News Knight, Have I Got News For You and BBC Radio 4's The Now Show fame, has released his first DVD, Planet Corduroy.
MOCK THE WEEK RETURNS
DARA O BRIAIN and ANDY PARSONS are to return with a new 12 week series of Mock The Week in the summer.
15 STOREY'S HIGH ON DVD
The entire 12 episodes of SEAN LOCK's cult classic comedy has been released by 2 Entertain.
MARK LAMARR SHOW
Catch MARK LAMARR on Friday nights on BBC Radio 2, midnight until 3am.
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