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4 weeks ago | 
comedy.co.uk | Jake Godfrey
Out of the thousands of 20th Century comedy shows, there is a notable paucity of female comics fronting their own series. Notable outliers include Joyce Grenfell in the likes of Joyce Grenfell Requests The Pleasure; Millicent Martin in Mainly Millicent; Dora Bryan's According To Dora; and Beryl Reid's Beryl Reid Says Good Evening, all of which aired in the 1950s and 60s. There was also Marti Caine, who had several series throughout the 1970s and 80s.
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1 month ago | 
comedy.co.uk | Jake Godfrey
Love British Comedy Guide? Support our work by making a donation. Find out more Long before the birth of what became known as alternative comedy the same ethos was booming on the folk club circuit, with the likes of John Dowie, Victoria Wood and Billy Connolly fine purveyors of between-song-bonhomie.
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Mar 1, 2025 | 
comedy.co.uk | Alan Cumming |Forbes Masson |Jake Godfrey
Please donate to help support British comedy at all levels. Thank you. Find out more In the 1980s, Alan Cumming and Forbes Masson were working in Scotland with their double act Victor & Barry. A mixture of camp comedy, cabaret, song and dance, Masson and Cumming were able to utilise the full range of their skills; singing, dancing, improv, pantomime and everything in between.
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Jan 31, 2025 | 
filmstories.co.uk | Jake Godfrey
Scream 7 is now in production after multiple delays, Matthew Lillard will be reprising his role of Stu – somehow. A spoiler for the first Scream film lies ahead. It’s no secret that the next Scream film has been fraught with difficulties, from the firing of Melissa Bererra to Jenna Ortega leaving, followed by director Christopher Landon.
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Jan 31, 2025 | 
filmstories.co.uk | Jake Godfrey
Ryū Murakami’s cult 1990s Japanese horror thriller novel Audition, is heading to the screen once again. More on the remake here. It is not hyperbole to say that Takeshi Miike’s Audition is easily one of the most memorable horror films of the 1990s.
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Jan 30, 2025 | 
filmstories.co.uk | Jake Godfrey
Lisa Kudrow and Mira Sorvino are in final negotiations to reprise their roles in the long awaited sequel to Romy And Michele’s High School Reunion. It isn’t the focus of this article, but as we’re on the subject of 1990s high school reunion films, Grosse Point Blank is very much worth your time, featuring one of John Cusack’s finest performances.
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Jan 29, 2025 | 
filmstories.co.uk | Jake Godfrey
The highly acclaimed 1990s American police drama Homicide: Life On The Street will finally be available to stream in the UK thanks to Sky. While late and much missed Andre Braugher may have won legions of fans in recent years for his pitch perfect comic performance as Sgt Raymond Holt in sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine, it is his towering performance as Detective Frank Pendleton in Homicide: Life On The Street that he made his name.
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Jan 28, 2025 | 
filmstories.co.uk | Jake Godfrey
Practical Magic 2 is getting closer to production, Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman are onboard, Susanne Bier is in talks to direct. It was confirmed last year that Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman are in talks to reprise their roles for a sequel to the 1998 fantasy Practical Magic. Akiva Goldsman will return to write the script. Alice Hoffman, who wrote the original novel in 1995, also published a sequel called The Book Of Magic in 2021.
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Jan 27, 2025 | 
filmstories.co.uk | Jake Godfrey
Robert De Niro stars in the Netflix political thriller series Zero Day, and that’s going to debut this year. Here’s the trailer. Over his extraordinary career, Robert De Niro has only appeared sporadically on the small screen. Perhaps most memorably, he appeared in a cameo at the end of series two of Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant’s Extras.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
filmstories.co.uk | Jake Godfrey
Mike White will be checking back in for The White Lotus season 4, which has now been given the greenlight. More here. Writer, actor, producer and director Mike White has one of the most eclectic filmographies in Hollywood, and now here he is steering a hugely successful TV project with The White Lotus. White began his career in the late 1990s when he penned films like the terrific Chuck And Buck, The Good Girl and Orange County.
