The BBC website for Lab Rats has just gone online. Visit it for clips, interviews, photos and more than you could ever care to know about the show.

www.bbc.co.uk/labrats

There's an interview with Chris and Carl about Lab Rats here . The series starts BBC 2 Thursday 10th July at 9.30pm.

Well, coming soonish.

We've just heard that Lab Rats - the sitcom written by Chris Addison and Carl Cooper in which I have a part - will be going out on BBC2 at 9.30pm from July 10th.

Thursdays, I hear, are funny.

I shall be appearing in a couple of episodes of the new series of Another Case of Milton Jones, made for Radio 4 by those good people at Pozzitive and written by Milton and Think The Unthinkable's James Cary. 

It's recording at the Drill Hall on Sunday April 20th.

The award-nominated Museum of Everything is being released on CD in June.

Pre-order your copy here.

Saturday sees (or hears) the return of the sitcom about hacks in space, Space Hacks. Written by Ian Simons and Stuart Sumner it stars Dan Mersh, Tim Key and Prunella Scales. I appear as Korg, their psychopathic alien editor and a variety of odd-sounding robots, aliens and loonies.

Tune in at 6.30pm on BBC7 on Saturday 1st March or Listen Again online.

"To Finity and no further!"

This four part sitcom starring Lenny Henry starts this week on Radio 4. Episode One 'Take Me Home, Country Roads' goes out at 6.30pm on Tuesday 26th February.

In what I think may be a first (or at least a second) for Radio 4, the  adaptation of my Edinburgh show recorded in front of a live audience will be going out this Friday, 1st February at 9pm as The Friday Play.

It's a longer version of the stage show (with no pictures obviously) and with added acting in the shape of Rachel Atkins, Alex Lowe and Ben Graves.

It will be available to on Listen Again for a week afterwards.

You can now get tickets to the pilot recording of our new sitcom Hey Hey We're The Monks from the BBC Ticket Unit.

The recording is Wednesday 20th February at Television Centre, London.

There is now an extra recording date for the Lenny Henry sitcom Rudy's Rare Records. Episode 4 will now be recorded on February 11th at 7.30pm at the BBC Radio Theatre.

Tickets available here.

My good friend Danny Robins has organised a monthly comedy / music gig. I shall be doing a bit at the first one. Here's the blurb...

Happy New Year and all that.

I've got a couple of things coming up in 2008.

February 1st - Sins of the Grandfathers goes out on Radio 4 as the Friday Play. Unless they move the date again.

February 20th - Studio recording of Hey Hey We're The Monks, a TV sitcom pilot written by Danny Robins and myself and starring Gavin & Stacey's James Corden. When tickets become available, I'll put the link up.

February 26th - Rudy's Rare Records, a sitcom starring Lenny Henry starts on Radio 4.

March 1st - The second series of Space Hacks starts on BBC7.

The new Chris Addison / Carl Cooper sitcom Lab Rats hopefully will air sometime around April. There'll also be another series of The Omid Djalili Show and series 3 of After You've Gone.

The 'feature-length' Extras Christmas Special - in which I have a tiny, tiny part - goes out on Thursday 27th December  at 9pm, BBC One.

I'm playing a man that the casting notes says 'looks like Andy Milman'. My New Year resolutions are to shave and lose weight.

Some of the sketches I wrote for Omid Djalili are up on YouTube.

Meet The Parents -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVAP9soE5P8

Huggy -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVAP9soE5P8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fY5fMqOANBw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lksDZhnQAE

Ethnic Bit Part Actor's Workshop -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBpnSoRyWCg

And the really too long but the money's on screen epic that is Pride & Racial Prejudice -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpPLG51uYek

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzj40KINMsQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lqwmih7EgxY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TCX_RerWDM

Tickets for the live audience recording of Rudy's Rare Records that Danny Robins and I are writing for Lenny Henry are now available from the BBC Ticket Unit. All tickets are free.

The recordings are on the 7th and 14th January 2008 at the Radio Theatre, Broadcasting House, London.

Some technically-minded person has put up another episode of We Are History on YouTube. It's the workhouse-tastic "Industrial Revolution: Factory or Friction".

I've just done a bit of filming with Lewis Georgeson and Will Kenning (of sketch act Big Day Out) on an episode of their Youtube comedy serial Blagger.

Check out episodes one and two and I'll be appaearing in episode three sometime soon. I'll be wearing a hat.

The third series of TWTTIN with Richard Herring, Emma Kennedy, Danny Robins and myself starts on Thursday 29th November at 11.30pm on Radio 2.

It's the usual mix of tenuously-linked historical stand-up and sketches with music from Christian Reilly and Novalounge.

From Wednesday November 21st, BBC7 are repeating the first series of The Museum of Everything at 10.30pm (and then again at 3.30am).

We now have a transmission date for the Radio 4 Friday Play adaptation of Sins of the Grandfathers, my 2005 Edinburgh show about my family's Nazi past.

It's going out at 9pm Friday 18th January 2008. It also features Alex Lowe, Rachel Atkins and Ben Graves and was produced by Sam Hoyle.

A new sketch show which I've written a bit of, starring that one who was that comedy Middle Easterner in them films, The Omid Djalili Show starts on BBC One on November 17th 2007.

If you watch the episode of After You've Gone broadcast at 8.30pm BBC One, Friday 12th October you may see me briefly appearing as Angry Fairground Barker. It's rather like Colonel Kurtz at the end of Apocalypse Now or Norman's mother in Psycho.

"I've told you before - that ride is for the under tens", that's my catchphrase.

History is, once again, repeating itself. We are recording a third series of TWTTIN, the Radio 2 history-based sketch show starring Richard Herring at the Bush Hall in Shepherd's Bush on October 22, November 12 and December 3 - two shows per night.
Free tickets will be available from Lost In TV. Although it's a radio show.

The new sitcom from Chris Addison and Carl Cooper (writers of The Ape That Got Lucky and Civilization) starts recording on Friday September 7th and then every Friday until October 12th.

For anyone who can't live without a permanent record of me with a latex balloon on my head, both series of Hyperdrive are now available to buy on DVD.

Turn the box over, on the back, see that robot on the right? With a latex balloon on his head? That's me. Now THAT is a claim to fame.

The DVD of Series 1 of After You've Gone comes out on September 24th 2007 - just in time for Christmas. And the months leading up to Christmas.

Buy it here if you've a mind to. Come on, I've just had my bathroom done.

If anyone's interested, the BBC have added the script for the pilot episode of award-winning kids show Young Dracula to their Writers Room script archive.


To download the pdf file go here and scroll towards the bottom.

These things have turned up on Youtube and will probably be in cinemas soon, annoying you before the film.

Volkswagen Die Hard

Volkswagen Star Wars

Volkswagen Ghostbusters

If anyone asks, that stomach is a prosthetic, right.

The new series from tall comedian Will Smith and featuring me as his difficult flatmate starts on Wednesday 1st August at 6.30pm on Radio 4.

Listen again here.

News just in - the third series of Paperback Hell will be repeated on Radio 4, starting Wednesday 8th August at 11.15pm.

Joys in this series include The De Niro Code and Forbidden Fire, our only ever excursion into... erotica. Quite silly, unerotic erotica admittedly.

The second series of Hyperdrive by Kevin Cecil and Andy Reily and produced by WAH/MOE powerhouse Alex Walsh-Taylor starts on Thursday 12th July on BBC2. The episode where I appear as the leader of the Red Shiny Robots of Vortex with a big latex balloon for a head is on Thursday 2nd August.

The second series of school-based quiz School's Out with Danny Wallace that I wrote for starts on Saturday 30th June on BBC One at 5.40pm. This week's pupils are Rory Bremner, Shaun Williamson and Patrick Kielty. The show runs for eight weeks.

Continuing my career path of appearing in radio shows with very tall comedians*, I will be popping up in Will Smith's new Radio 4 show The Tao of Bergerac as Will's Flatmate. My parts have been pre-recorded, but you can see the rest of the show being recorded on June 12th and 26th at the newly-refurbished Radio Theatre, Broadcasting House. Tickets are here.

*I'd say Will's the tallest, then Chris Addison, then Marcus Brigstocke. Even Danny Robins is taller than me. Richard Herring, however, is a good couple of inches shorter. See, this is the stuff you never see on Wikipedia.

An interview with Jessica Stevenson (now Hynes) in The Guardian calls the badly-received According To Bex 'pretty awful'. This is surely an improvement on describing it as one of the 'TV Turkeys of 2005' or when they reported it had been scientifically proven to be one of the worst sitcoms of all time.

History is being rewritten before our eyes, my friends. Soon ATB will be remembered as fondly as those other family-favourites Ed Stone Is Dead, Mr Charity and Roman's Empire.

The second series of After You've Gone starts recording in early June - tickets are available here.

Radio 4 have commissioned a series of Rudy's Rare Records, a sitcom created by and starring Lenny Henry and written by Danny Robins and myself. More details about recording dates, cast and so forth, as I get them.

The second series of Museum of Everything starts a repeat run on BBC7 from Friday April 20th at 11pm. 

The second series of Ed Reardon's Week by Chris Douglas and Andrew Nickolds starts a repeat on BBC7 on Monday 9th April at 10.30pm.

Armando Iannucci's Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive has been nominated for a Sony - radio's most prestigious and only award.

Full list of nominations here.

The CBBC show that Danny Robins and I created - Young Dracula   -   has won the Royal Television Society   award for Best Children's Drama.

The awards were presented at a glittering ceremony at London's glitzy Grosvenor House Hotel on London's Park Lane. It's a shame we weren't invited.

Congratulations to everyone involved with the writing, acting and production of Young Dracula. Except the person who didn't even bother telling us we were up for the bloody award.

A second series of Young Dracula is in pre-production. Apparently.

The Sony award-winning The Ape That Got Lucky starring Chris Addison, Geoffrey McGivern, Jo Enright and myself is back on Radio 4 (6pm Thursdays until March 22nd).

It's a repeat, obviously. Listen Again here.

Or CDs are still on sale...

After a quiet start, After You've Gone ended its run with very healthy ratings*. My episode was watched by 5.5 million people on the Friday** with 2 million tuning in for the Sunday repeat.

Apparently there might be a second series.

*Not that it's important, in it for the art etc etc...

**Take that Inspector Jack Frost.

My episode of After You've Gone airs on BBC1 this Friday 23rd at 8.30pm (with a repeat at 5.10pm on Sunday 25th). As well as the usual cast, it also stars Alexander Armstrong as the suave Dr Howard Banks - loveable Jimmy's nemesis.

If you're waiting for Lillies to start, why not tune in?

The Radio Times has said nice things about Space Hacks.

"At last, a sci-fi comedy that will fill the void left by Red Dwarf and Hitchhiker's. If that sounds a bit much, then at least it has grabbed your attention, because you should not miss this opening episode. Stuart Sumner and Ian Simons have made something that is smart, clever and yet not too big for its own space boots. Charlie (Dan Mersh) and Moog (Tim Key) are two humans who live in a spaceship disguised as a hedge on Clapham Common, with Prunella Scales as a baking-preoccupied computer they call Mother - how Freudian is that? They are in hiding because they are supposed to be reporters scouring the universe for news stories to send back to the Intergalactic News Federation - except that Charlie is lazy and just makes stuff up. Moog on the other hand wants to get out there and find the news. Invariably, though, the news seems to come to them. I predict great things"

There's also an article from the Bucks Free Press here, if you wanted to see a strange photo of Space Hacks hacks Stuart and Ian.

Space Hacks, a new sci-fi comedy series by Ian Sumner and Stuart Simons starts on BBC7 this Saturday at 6.30pm (with a repeat at half midnight).

The show's about two reluctant intergalactic reporters, played by Tim Key and Dan Mersh, and their onboard computer, played by Prunella Scales. I'm their evil alien editor, as well as a variety of pirates, robots and other space trash.

As always, if you miss it, you can Listen Again here.

After You've Gone - the new sitcom starring Nicholas Lyndhurst and Celia Imrie - starts tonight on BBC One at 8.30pm. If you're not watching someone get killed on Coronation Street, why not tune in? Alternatively, there is a Sunday teatime repeat.

My episode will be on Friday 23rd February.

The BBC Online page for After You've Gone is here. Brilliantly, there's a link to Relate if you've experienced some of the issues raised by this family sitcom.

You can catch a repeat of the award-nominated series one of The Museum of Everything on BBC7  from Wednesday 3rd January at 11.30pm - or via Listen Again.

Well, there's this website. Do you like it?

AFTER YOU'VE GONE, the new sitcom starring Nicholas Lyndhurst and Celia Imrie starts on BBC One on Friday 12th January 2007 at 8.30pm. The episode with my name on it 'Out Of Africa' will go out on 23rd February (with a guest star appearance from Alexander Armstong).

A new series of SCHOOL'S OUT with Danny Wallace - and for which I will be scribbling down sarcastic jokes about minor soap stars and sportsmen - starts filming in February. Transmission dates as I get them, but it'll be Saturday nights on BBC One.

Not one, not three, but two chances to catch me in something science-fictiony over the next couple of months. I'm the sweaty body and muffled voice inside the Leader of the Shiny Red Robots of Vortis in the second series of HYPERDRIVE by Kevin Cecil and Andy Reily. That's on BBC2 quite soon. Also quite soon, but on digital radio station BBC7, is a series of SPACE HACKS by Ian Simons and Stuart Sumner. I'm the digitally-altered voice of Korg, editor of Intergalactic News, as well as a variety of space pirates, space postmen and space robots. More transmission details etc etc