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ABC News
24-06-2025
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- ABC News
Upstart Crow: Trailer
Upstart Crow Comedy British Award-Winning Watch Trailer Article share options Share this on Facebook Twitter Send this by Email Copy link WhatsApp Messenger With a family in Stratford and his theatre company in London, the Bard is burning the candle at both ends. His best mate Kit Marlowe is stealing Will's best lines, and neighbour Kate is desperate to be an actress.
Daily Mirror
24-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
BBC move iconic Wimbledon show to graveyard slot after Emma Raducanu snub
The BBC's Today at Wimbledon highlights programme has been shoved back to a graveyard slot with coverage airing at 11.55pm as the broadcaster defends its coverage The BBC has again come under fire after moving their iconic Today at Wimbledon programme to 11.55pm - the decision coming not long after they failed to show Emma Raducanu and Katie Boulter in action at Queen's. The traditional highlights programme for each day's play has generally aired at either 8pm or 9pm on BBC2, but it will now get shoved back several hours to a very unsociable time slot that will suit few viewers. Previously it had been in a prime time slot. The switch is not a one-off to suit their coverage with the Telegraph reporting that it has a new permanent home in the five to midnight slot. Next Monday's 8pm-10.30pm time slot will see them include repeats of Your Garden Made Perfect, The Pembrokeshire Coast: A Wild Year, and Upstart Crow. A BBC spokesperson claimed that Today at Wimbledon would still be shown at its traditional time on iPlayer, while describing the television broadcast as a 'repeat'. It will alienate viewers, especially those in remote areas, who may not have access to iPlayer or the BBC website. Today at Wimbledon has often been the only way some fans can catch up on that day's play. It comes after the broadcaster's tennis coverage came under fire when they twice failed to show Emma Raducanu and Katie Boulter in the doubles at Queen's. The British pair were beaten in the quarter-final against Lyudmyla Kichenok and Erin Routliffe at the London-based tournament. However that match, as well as their earlier win, were not shown with BBC2 instead showing two-year-old editions of Homes Under The Hammer and Bargain Hunt. The majority of the match coverage wasn't even available on the website despite them receiving complaints for not showing their early win against Wu Fang-hsien and Jiang Xinyu. There will be a number of Brits in contention at Wimbledon, which will only heighten interest with fans potentially frustrated at BBC's coverage. Jack Draper has moved up the rankings after his showing at Queen's and is among the top four seeds, giving him an easier route to the semi-finals. Raducanu is again the British No 1 and will hope to embark on an impressive run in front of her home crowd. She's previously received huge backing at SW19 whilst Boulter too is in contention. Raducanu, winner of the US Open four years ago, has confirmed that she will continue working with Andy Murray 's former coach Mark Petchey as well as childhood coach Nick Cavaday.
Telegraph
22-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
Monty Python and the Holy Grail: the world's funniest film turns 50
Not that the film's influence was confined to the US. The list of writers, performers, directors and artists who took on, specifically, Holy Grail's mixture of surrealism, history and anachronistic comedy is long and impressive. It includes Terry Pratchett, who drew on Python's handling of the medieval world for his own vision of Tolkien-inspired comedy; Richard Curtis, the creator of Blackadder, and his collaborator Ben Elton, who continues to mine the historical comedy vein with his Shakespeare sitcom Upstart Crow; and Taika Waititi, who not only made the dark historical comedy Jojo Rabbit, but also superbly rebooted Gilliam's Time Bandits for Apple TV+ last year. And there is, of course, more than a trace of Holy Grail's DNA in the BBC's Horrible Histories, which took Terry Deary's books and turned them into the longest-running Python tribute ever screened. It's arguable that, more than anything else they did – more than the extremist comedy of The Meaning of Life's Mr Creosote, more than the Dead Parrot sketch so beloved by students everywhere, more than the stage shows and the LPs, more even than the controversial Life of Brian – Holy Grail represents the purest and best expression of Monty Python. Its loose narrative gives it an extraordinary freedom simply to be relentlessly funny. Its medieval fabulist setting means it can never date (it helps, too, perhaps, that it's the only Python project in which most of the female roles are actually played by women). And its history-based theme made it the template for so much of the Pythons' subsequent work, solo and otherwise, from Ripping Yarns to The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. Even after half a century, its grip on the world's psyche shows little sign of loosening. Like a cross-cultural Easter egg, Holy Grail still crops up everywhere, in every medium. Perhaps the most famous recent reference occurs in the otherwise distinctly uncomical HBO megahit Game of Thrones, which not only featured scenes filmed at Holy Grail's Scottish Doune Castle location, but also a moment in which the Champion of Meereen taunts Daenerys Targaryen with the words, 'Your mother is a hamster and your father smells of elderberries.' There can surely be no better tribute to the lasting influence of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. David Quantick is the writer of Whatever Happened to Baby Jane Austen? starring Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders, which will return to Radio 4 soon
