Britain’s Got Talent has found its new champion.
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Jake Kanter International TV EditorViacomCBS-owned Comedy Central UK has commissioned two new comedy formats: panel show Guessable and topical TV round-up program Channel Hopping With Jon Richardson.Tuesday’s Child Television, the production company behind LEGO Masters USA, has enlisted British comedian Sara Pascoe to host Guessable, an eight-part series in which two teams compete to identify the famous name or object inside a mystery box.
Pascoe will present alongside John Kearns, while Alan
.Britain’s Got Talent has found its new champion.
Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorA 77-track benefit album featuring Pearl Jam, David Byrne, Aimee Mann and many others raised more than $550,000 for voting-rights organizations on Friday, the only day it was available.
Jake Kanter International TV EditorAnil Gupta, the BAFTA-winning executive producer of the UK version of The Office, is joining Sky Studios in the newly-created role of creative director of comedy.Gupta will focus on boosting in-house comedy production at the Comcast-owned company and will report to Jon Mountague, Sky Studios’ director of comedy.As well as Ricky Gervais’ The Office, his credits include Goodness Gracious Me, The Kumars at No.
Pixies guitarist Joey Santiago has said it feels “pretty damn good” to be announced as supporting Pearl Jam at next year’s rescheduled British Summer Time Festival.
Saturday Night Live returned on, well, Saturday night (LOLz) for its season 46 premiere, and it couldn’t have all come together at a better time!
Donald Trump for the upcoming US election.As the race for the presidential election – which takes place November 3 – heats up, the Academy Award-winning actor condemned Biden and proclaimed that “Trump must win” as he is “real.”Voight, who has appeared in movies such as Varsity Blues, National Treasure, Pearl Harbor, Midnight Cowboy, Transformers and many more, posted a video to Twitter on Friday (October 2) simply titled “Evil.”The star, who is the father of actor Angelina Jolie and won an
Arcade Fire, David Byrne and Pearl Jam are among a host of artists set to feature on a new compilation in aid of US voting rights.The album, ‘Good Music to Avert the Collapse of American Democracy Volume Two’, will be available on Bandcamp this Friday (October 2) for just 24 hours.It features up to 77 tracks from artists including Phoenix, Fleet Foxes, Jenny Lewis, The War on Drugs, Little Dragon and Big Boi.Pearl Jam have contributed new track ‘Get It Back’, and Arcade Fire’s live team-up with
If you have to rank the legends of American comedy, no discussion can go forward without the great John Belushi at the top. A notorious wildman known for his SNL days, but also roles like “National Lampoon’s Animal House,” “The Blues Brothers” and more, Belushi’s life and comedy career were cut short in 1982 at the age of 33 due to a tragic drug and alcohol intoxication.