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In a stunning transformation, Suranne Jones becomes Claudia Winkleman in this exciting new sketch for the Red Nose Day night of TV which was exclusively revealed in BBC's The One Show on Monday 11 March, and that's for starters! "The Traitors: The Movie" poster art for Red Nose Day 2024, Comic Relief, BBC Audiences should grab some[...]

Tonight's BBC Comic Relief telethon was a different affair than usual, shorter, socially distanced and with new appeals to make as a result But as everm there are always highlights and Catherine Tate reviving her grotesque old woman character Nan, encountering James Bond as played by Daniel Craig, calling in to M at MI6 It's[...]

March 19th sees Red Nose Day, the bi-annual BBC telethon for the Comic Relief charity As part of the evening's event, Back To The Future co-writer Bob Gale has written a new sequence featuring the cast of the Back To The Future musical, Roger Bart as Doc Brown, Olly Dobson as Mart McFly, and Courtney-Mae[...]

Ben Elton writes an episode of his latest sitcom that criticises Comic Relief? Seems so. Upstart Crow is the latest sitcom written by Elton for BBC2, following The Young Ones, Blackadder, Blessed and The Thin Blue Line It stars David Mitchell and tells the London and Stratford life of William Shakespeare, his family, and his work colleagues[...]

Thanks to Red Nose Actually, on BBC 1's Red Nose Day from Comic Relief tonight. Juliet and Peter are still together, they are happy. Mark has a beard, still communicates by cue cards… …and is married to Kate Moss. David has been made Prime Minister again, after five years out of office, still married to Natalie…, …still dancing in No 10,[...]

Because it's Red Nose Day, the BBC have put Steven Moffat's 1999 Doctor Who sketch The Curse Of Fatal Death online for free, starring Rowan Atkinson (and others) as The Doctor, Jonathan Pryce as The Master and Julia Sawalha as Emma… It is noted that he used a number of ideas here when he would take over[...]

Tonight, BBC 1 shows a new ten minute sequel to the Love Actually movie for Comic Relief's charity telethon, Red Nose Day, called Red Nose Day Actually with Hugh Grant, Liam Nielson, Colin Firth, Kiera Knightley, Bill Nighy, Andrew Lincoln, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Martine McCutcheon, Rowan Atkinson and more They will also be joined[...]

Today is Red Nose Day, the biannual telethon that raises money for Comic Relief, spending it on the most vulnerable in the UK and Africa The day is awash with celebrities doing very silly things indeed and the general public being encouraged to "be funny for money" It will culminate in a telethon this evening[...]

This Friday sees the launch of Red Nose Day, the Comic Relief telethon on the BBC that has already introduced my daughters to the concept of blindboxing thanks to the Red Nose offerings this year… Which is why we have bought twenty of the damn things so that they can get an astronaut red nose each[...]

And as part of this stand up comedian who once voiced radio ads for me for HMV, and would later give it to you straight, like pear cider 100% from pears, he is well in to running a 27 hour comedy marathon to benefit Comic Relief at the Pleasance in Islington, including reading from Neil[...]

Founded by Richard Curtis, Red Nose Day is a biannual charitable telethon for Comic Relief that has been running on British television since 1988, earning millions upon millions for charities in the process Concentrating on poverty relief and investment in African healthcare, it also has tackled projects including homelessness in the UK It takes over[...]

Less than two months after Comic Relief in Berkeley closed and The Escapist comic store opened with the closed store's stock, another Berkeley comic store is opening. Uel Carter, employee of the store will now launch rival store Fantastic Comics on the old Comic Relief premises And Image founder and Savage Dragon creator Erik Larsen will[...]

Sorry to those who couldn't see the Doctor Who Mini-Episode tease for Friday Night's Comic Relief Red Nose Day telethon on BBC One that Brendon posted yesterday, due to region restrictions Let's fix that now. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiT68Y9lUZg[/youtube] And since I'm here, why not sneak in a few other unseen Doctor Who bits, deleted scenes as seen on the[...]

Nineteen and a half years ago, Fleetway published The Totally Stonking, Surprisingly Educational And Utterly Mind-Boggling Comic Relief Comic Written by the likes of Richard Curtis, Neil Gaiman, Grant Morrison, Alan Moore, Mark Millar, Pete Milligan, Dave Gibbons, Garth Ennis and more, drawn by the likes of Brian Bolland, Simon Bisley, Hunt Emerson, Sean Phillips,[...]