At last! It’s the full ‘Islands in the Stream’ Comic Relief vid, starring Bryn (Rob Brydon) and Nessa (Ruth Jones), Sir Tom Jones and Robin Gibb. Woo hoo!
Gavin and Stacey
Friday’s poisonous Italians news
Film
- Clips from Nicolas Cage’s Knowing
- Top Cow’s Aphrodite IX being adapted into 3D feature film
- Seth Green and Joan Cusack to star in Mars Needs Moms!
- Trailer for IRA informant drama 50 Dead Men Walking
- Eddie Murphy to star in Richard Pryor biopic
- Jim Carrey and Jake Gyllenhaal to star in musical Damn Yankees
- Keira Knightley’s King Lear cancelled
Music
- Billy Bragg to tour Wales to commemorate the miners’ strike
- Tim Burton would like to work with The Cure
Canadian TV
- CBC to buy more US series to save money
British TV
- Gavin and Stacey series three starts filming in June and there are going to be some real twists, apparently
- Channel 4 chairman rejects merger with Five and ITV
- Five set to axe a third of its staff
- Pauline Quirke to star in Missing
US TV
- Simpsons gets two more seasons
- David Morse and Lloyd Owen join pilot casts
- Chris O’Donnell joins NCIS spin-off, plus casting on Courteney Cox’s Cougar Town
- Brittany Snow to star in Gossip Girl spin-off
- Lost ratings down a bit, Life in Mars ratings down a lot
- Photos from Caprica
- Gina Gershon to guest on Numb3rs
- Star Trek The Experience returning to Las Vegas
- HBO making a Borgias series
Today's Joanna Page
Today’s Joanna Page: Comic Relief
Today’s Joanna Page should have been This Year’s Love. But since she’s not in the cast list at the end, I’m guessing it’s something of a cameo appearance by Ms Page in said movie, so I’m actually going to have to sit through the whole film – Dougie Henshall’s kilt and all – to find out which five frames she’s in or whether she’s simply sitting on a cutting room floor somewhere. Apparently Richard Armitage plays “Smug man at party” in it, so there’s a double whammy for you.
So in the meantime, here’s a picture of her with Ruth Jones from the Comic Relief launch earlier this month. She’s going to be one of the Celebrity Apprentices, you know. And here’s a chat with her courtesy of Holy Moly. It’s quiet brief, but it is revealed that Tom Jones doesn’t know what a chocolate orange is.
Recording dates for Safety Catch – Series Two
As discovered by me not so long ago, radio comedy Safety Catch, starring among others – oh look – Joanna Page from Gavin & Stacey, has been awarded a second series. Now the recording dates have been announced. Need anyone ask if I’ve booked my tickets already?
Safety Catch
1 and 8 March, BBC Radio TheatreA second series of Laurence Howarth’s black comedy of modern morality set in the world of arms dealing.
Simon McGrath is generally is nice man who likes to think of himself as a good citizen. He donates blood, although not bone marrow because he’s heard that hurts. He recycles his newspapers, bottles and some of his cans. He’s adopted two tigers. But he has to pay his mortgage like everyone else and that’s why he’s currently working as an arms dealer.
Of course his real love is electronic music and this is just a stop gap until he finds the perfect outlet for his music – okay so it’s a five year stop gap but it’s a stop gap nonetheless.
Anyway, as his mum says, people will always want to kill each other, there’s nothing Simon can do about that and the job pays well, gives him good job security and enables him to buy a decent car. So that’s alright then……
Starring:
Darren Boyd (Green Wing, Saxondale, Little Dorrit) as Simon
Joanna Page (Gavin & Stacey)
Sarah Smart (Wallander, At Home With The Braithwaites)
Brigit Forsyth (Calendar Girls, Whatever Happened To the Likely Lads,)
Lewis McLeod (Look Around You)Recording on Sunday 1 and 8 March at the BBC Radio Theatre, Broadcasting House, Portland Place, London. Doors open at 7.15pm.
To apply for tickets, call the BBC Ticket Line on 0370 901 1227* or visit the BBC Tickets Website.
We are delighted to announce that we are now issuing E-tickets for all of our shows, so please keep an eye on the email address that you enter when applying as that is where your tickets will be sent.
We look forward to seeing you in our audience very soon.
Kind regards
BBC Studio Audiences
www.bbc.co.uk/tickets
Bryn, Nessa and Tom Jones in the Comic Relief video
It’s a bit of a Gavin & Stacey Comic Relief this year. There’s going to be a Gavin & Stacey sketch (possibly with lots of famous cameos); Joanna Page is going to be one of the celebrity Apprentices; and most importantly, the Comic Relief song this year is ‘Islands in the Stream’, as sung by Ruth Jones and Rob Brydon as Nessa and Bryn, with Sir Tom Jones.
The video’s not out until next month, but there was a reasonable snippet of it on Jonathan Ross on Friday. Here it is, at roughly 4m05s in, or you should (fingers crossed) be able to go straight to it on the YouTube site by clicking here.