‘Office Race’ Producers on How ‘Caddyshack’ and ‘Dodgeball’ Inspired Joel McHale, Beck Bennett-Led Running Comedy

You will have to go back a long way to find the last time Pep Guardiola picked a Manchester City team lacking the ingredient he usually treasures above all others: control. So perhaps it was fitting that by the end everyone inside the Etihad had chucked the shackles away and embraced the chaos.

Peep Show co-writer Sam Bain has revealed that they received offers to turn the hit Channel 4 sitcom into a play.Speaking exclusively to NME, Bain said that he and fellow co-writer Jesse Armstrong (Succession) had to reject the proposal because they couldn’t figure out how to make the show work on stage.Now celebrating its 20th anniversary, Peep Show documented the increasingly tragic lives of bank manager Mark Corrigan (played by David Mitchell) and his layabout flatmate/ occasional musician Jeremy Usborne (played by Robert Webb).The iconic comedy was shot through a POV perspective with the actors performing to camera, while the characters’ internal thoughts were added as narration. This format proved to be revolutionary, but it was one Bain and Armstrong knew they wouldn’t be able to replicate on stage.“There was an offer to do a live Peep Show, a stage show, after the last series, which we did carefully consider because it was coming from some proper people,” said Bain.

paid tribute to late star Billy Miller during Thursday’s episode.At the end of the latest episode, a black-and-white photo of Miller appeared on the screen. “In loving memory,” the message read. “1979-2023.”The official Twitter account for the CBS soap opera also shared the montage.

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are no strangers to hitting the headlines for their controversial decisions, with one of their first being their bombshell statement to announce they were leaving the royal family.

If you have Instagram, then you may have received a notification from some of the biggest brands you follow asking you to join their broadcast channel. The messages have been coming in thick and fast seemingly overnight and leaving some users scratching their heads or throwing their phones away in frustration.

EXCLUSIVE: Creatives behind Alice & Jack, which stars Domhnall Gleeson and Andrea Riseborough in the latter’s first role since the To Leslie controversy, have spotlighted how they wanted the Channel 4/Masterpiece TV series to feel like an indie film.

The X Factor star Christopher Maloney looked bloody and bruised after undergoing eyelid surgery in Poland.The surgery that conducted the cosmetic procedure, which aims to improve hooded or drooping eyelids and eye bags, posted a video of the 45 year old singer following the surgery, where he could been seen with rather bruised-looking eyes. He said: "I think obviously people worry about coming abroad for surgery because it's a foreign country and they think people don't speak English, and the cleanliness and how good is the surgeon.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak had a ready answer this week when asked about the plans to shut nearly all railway ticket offices in England amid pressure from the Government to cut costs.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Oscar-winning writer-director Bobby Moresco (“Crash”) is set to direct “Ferrari vs. Mercedes,” the latest movie set in Italy’s vintage auto racing world – following Moresco’s “Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend” and Micheal Mann’s “Ferrari” – being produced by Andrea Iervolino. Just like “Lamborghini,” which in the U.S.

David Walliams was surrounded by friends and family as he celebrated his 52nd birthday in style.

A police officer has been injured following an incident outside Glasgow Central last night.

Joel McHale, Alyson Hannigan and Kelsey Grammer. “We were stunned at the cast we were able to attract,” director Jared Lapidus told The Post. “We had a short list of folks that we thought would nail the roles, and we went to the network with that list.

Friends director James Burrows never found Helen Baxendale, who played Ross Geller’s wife, “particularly funny,” and felt she lacked chemistry with actor David Schwimmer.

Popular Channel 4 series, The Traitors, will soon be returning as filming gets underway at Scotland's Ardross Castle.The show proved a hit over the Christmas period last year when 22 strangers competed for a £100,000 prize in a game of subterfuge and drama in the Gothic castle. Aerial photos of the castle show black cars arriving as this year's contestants make their way to the place they'll be staying for the next few weeks as the murder mystery game gets underway.

the Daily Mail reported. Director James Burrow had a lot to get off his chest when he admitted that UK actress Helen Baxendale, who played Emily Waltham in 14 episodes of the show, couldn’t gel with other cast members because she wasn’t as comedic.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief HYBE Corp., the K-Pop powerhouse behind BTS, and the U.S.’s Geffen Records are to bring their global girl group audition efforts to Netflix as a docuseries that will launch next year. The two music companies announced the 2024 series and a companion-piece online show that kicks off on Thursday as their “The Debut: Dream Academy” moves up a gear. Having begun the selection process in November 2021 and screened some 120,000 submissions from young women hopefuls from around the world, they have now narrowed the field to just 20 candidates.

Strictly Come Dancing celebrities can never truly be prepared for the technical challenges that lie before them, argues head judge Shirley Ballas. As the 2023 competition nears its start date, the casting of Angela Scanlon and Layton Williams has resurrected the show's regular 'fix' claims, due to the TV presenter and actor's experiences in the West End musical scene. Shirley, 62, told The Mirror: "I think it’s very unfair at this point to single out anybody, because most children had a little bit of training.

The members of One Direction have grown up in front of our eyes.

England will play against Fiji on Saturday, with the last game before the Rugby World Cup pitting Steve Borthwick's side against a potential quarter-final opponent in the tournament.

Ethan Shanfeld According to one former television writer, working on “Friends” wasn’t all that friendly. Patty Lin, whose credits include “Breaking Bad,” “Freaks and Geeks” and “Desperate Housewives,” opened up about her turbulent tenure on the juggernaut NBC sitcom in her upcoming memoir, “End Credits: How I Broke Up With Hollywood” (via Time).