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Joanna Page hosting the Paul O’Grady show in April

20 March 2009 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Exciting news from Mark at comedy.org.uk which I’ve negligently forgotten to blogroll until now. Somehow he spotted the occasional Joanna Page theme to the blog and has been kind enough to let me know that Joanna Page is  going to be hosting The Paul O’Grady Show for a one-off special in April, being recorded a week on Monday:

200903200951.jpgStepping into THE PAUL O’GRADY SHOW hot seat for one afternoon in March will be JOANNA PAGE, star of the BBC’s hilarious GAVIN & STACEY! As always, there will be a feast of teatime treats, some of the biggest names in showbiz as guests and Paul’s regular ‘family’ of reporters from all around the nation.

This special one-off show is pre-recorded for broadcast in April, when Paul will take his well-deserved break during the series.

RECORDING ON Monday 30th March @ 12.30pm, The London Studios, Upper Ground, SE1 9LT

You can get tickets from Lost in TV. Thanks Mark!

Today’s Joanna Page: Top of the Pops

17 March 2009 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Next week, more rampant (implied) Joanna Page nudity in Ready When Your Are, Mr McGill, which ITV thoughtfully decided to repeat last week. Until then, you’re just going to have to cope with her and most of the cast of Gavin & Stacey as backing singers on Comic Relief‘s revival of Top of the Pops last Friday. It’s Tom Jones, Ness and Bryn singing ‘Islands in the Stream’, which went to number one this week – can you believe that Sir Tom actually complained to Ruth Jones that Stacey’s accent was too Swansea?

Anyway, enjoy!

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Preview: Safety Catch (series two)

11 March 2009 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

As Radio 4 comedies go, Safety Catch is an odd little show. Starring Darren Boyd (Green Wing, Smack the Pony), Joanna Page (Gavin and Stacey), Brigit Forsyth (The Likely Lads), Lewis McLeod (Look Around You) and Sarah Smart (Wallander), it’s aimed at the same kind of liberal, middle class audience as more obvious fare like Claire in the Community.

But it’s about a man who makes a living from mass murder, gun running and selling weapons to child soldiers ("putting the infant in infantry").

No wonder then that yet again it’s been marooned in the 11.30pm slot when it returns for its second series on 1st April.

But, hey, I went to see two episodes being recorded last Sunday. Here’s what that was like.

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Today’s Joanna Page: The Vagina Monologues and Marie Claire

2 March 2009 Rob Buckley Post a comment

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Bit of a brief Today’s Joanna Page today. But be prepared for an extensive one or two in the next fortnight.

Anyway, our Joanna’s appearing in The Vagina Monologues at the Wales Millennium Centre this week (anyone going?) and there’s a big interview with her about it over in thisissouthwales.co.uk. But she’s also doing a lot of work for Comic Relief, including appearing in a Marie Claire photoshoot. Here’s a behind-the-scenes vid of her, Stephen Mangan, Alison Steadman and her Fat Pig co-star Kevin Bishop at said photoshoot.

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Today’s Joanna Page: Comic Relief

23 February 2009 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Joanna Page and Ruth Jones at the Comic Relief launch

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.