Katy Brand
Katy Brand’s Book Group will be at the Underbelly Festival on Thursday 26th April. The one-off show will see Katy Brand talk about and read from her favourite books (good ones, bad ones, childhood ones, dirty ones…), and chat to two celebrity guests (to be announced) who also combine
[...]
March 27, 2018 // 0 Comments
Katy Brand has written her first play, 3Women, which will soon be at Trafalgar Studios. The play will star Anita Dobson, along with Debbie Chazen, Maisie Richardson-Sellers and Oliver Greenall. 3Women is a comedy drama set in a hotel room, where a family is reunited for one evening. It follows
[...]
March 20, 2018 // 0 Comments
Katy Brand will be performing her 2017 Edinburgh show I Could’ve Been An Astronaut at The Soho Theatre in September. Katy builds on the success of her previous stage show, I Was A Teenage Christian, with another look back on some of the choices made (for her and by her) during her formative
[...]
August 26, 2017 // 0 Comments
The ever-brilliant Richard Herring returns to Leicester Square Theatre for his live podcast series RHLSTP next week, and TVO regulars Dan Skinner and Katy Brand are amongst this season’s special guests. We’re big admirers of not only Richard Herring’s output over the last
[...]
May 30, 2017 // 0 Comments
Katy Brand features in new radio comedy That Was The Tweet That Was. Adil Ray (Citizen Khan) hosts the new topical comedy show which looks back at the past week in social media. The first episode also features Katy Brand, David Schneider, Nick Doody and Ashley Baker. That Was The Tweet That
[...]
May 16, 2017 // 0 Comments
Katy Brand and Sally Phillips have joined the cast of cult sci-fi comedy audio series Strangeness in Space. For the uninitiated, the crowd-funded show is the brainchild of 80s/90s children’s TV legends Trevor & Simon, who write and star in the series as two idiots claiming to be
[...]
May 2, 2017 // 1 Comment
So many podcasts, so little time. Here’s a handy list of British podcast episodes that feature the people we cover at TVO. The Comedian’s Comedian In this long-running podcast, stand-up comedian Stuart Goldsmith interviews fellow stand-ups about how and why they do comedy. Things
[...]
April 21, 2017 // 0 Comments
This year’s charity telethon featured a large TVO contingent amongst its bevy of stars, and raised over £71m for great causes around the world. But it was also a highly divisive evening for audiences. Our editor in chief, Paul Holmes, shares his thoughts on some of the things that worked,
[...]
March 25, 2017 // 1 Comment
Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled will soon be back for a fifth series and the latest guests have been announced. As with previous series of the chat show, there are several familiar TVO faces on the guest list. Here’s what we can expect… Episode 1: Davina McCall, Reginald D Hunter, Jimmy
[...]
January 24, 2017 // 0 Comments
This week sees the long-awaited London run of Katy Brand‘s critically acclaimed I Was a Teenage Christian at the Soho Theatre, with shows every night from Monday 23rd to Saturday 28th January. But this is just the start of a long run of comedy across this Winter and early Spring for the
[...]
January 23, 2017 // 0 Comments
Katy Brand will be taking her 2016 Edinburgh Fringe smash hit I Was a Teenage Christian on tour in late Spring. Katy’s return to the Fringe for the first time in over a decade was a starkly confessional show, in which she explained ‘what a dick’ she was as a God-bothering teenage
[...]
December 6, 2016 // 0 Comments
Katy Brand will be bringing her critically acclaimed, smash-hit Edinburgh 2016 show I Was a Teenage Christian to The Soho Theatre in the new year. Whilst the heart and soul are being ripped out of Soho’s every nook and cranny, the good folk at The Soho Theatre are continuing the good fight
[...]
November 18, 2016 // 0 Comments
Ghosts and ghouls are on the prowl this weekend, as Halloween approaches on Monday evening, and everyone gets to play ‘Count The Harley Quinn Costumes’ in their nightclub of choice. Yes, it’s time for some grisly fancy dress, far too many sweets, and some kick-arse horror movies
[...]
October 28, 2016 // 0 Comments
The Edinburgh Fringe is now officially over for another year, and as the city cleans away the chaos that millions of flyers and hundreds of shows leave behind, we thought it would be a good time to reflect on TVO related involvement in an epic Fringe run. Our editor in chief, Paul Holmes,
[...]
August 31, 2016 // 0 Comments
Panel show podcast Do The Right Thing is back, and its latest episode features great comedy duo Anna Crilly and Katy Wix. Do The Right Thing, which is hosted by Danielle Ward with team captains Michael Legge and Margaret Cabourn-Smith, is now in its sixth series and has a Sony award under its belt.
[...]
August 15, 2016 // 0 Comments
Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer will be taking part in Celebrity Storage Hunters on Dave this autumn, along with some more comedy faces. The one-off Christmas special was Dave’s most-watched programme of 2015, so Celebrity Storage Hunters is now returning to the channel with five hour-long
[...]
August 5, 2016 // 0 Comments
The Edinburgh Festival returns for its 69th year shortly, and a bevvy of TVO favourites are heading on up there to make people laugh. As part of our celebrations, we’ve been catching up with a handful of great performers we’re sure you’ll want to go and see at the Fringe. And
[...]
July 28, 2016 // 0 Comments
It’s the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s gothic horror masterpiece Frankenstein and Noel Fielding has made an appearance on The Infinite Monkey Cage to discuss it. The ‘pop science’ BBC Radio 4 series hosted by Robin Ince and Brian Cox has been running since
[...]
July 27, 2016 // 0 Comments
It’s that time of year again. The Edinburgh Fringe starts next week, and with a host of TVO favourites descending upon the city during the month of August, we’ll be bringing you an overview of the shows you simply have to see. To kick things off, here’s the first of our preview
[...]
July 25, 2016 // 0 Comments
Katy Brand has revealed how her new stand up show has been inspired by her teenage years as an evangelical Christian. Talking to Brian Logan for the Guardian, Katy explains how she spent seven years in “a happy-clappy, charismatic, evangelical church” before becoming disillusioned with
[...]
July 5, 2016 // 1 Comment
The Velvet Onion 