Just A Minute!
David’s episode of Just A Minute is on the BBC iPlayer right now….
Archive for February, 2009
What a feeling…
Like Dame David Bowie once decreed, Let’s Dance!
Mini report: There was a bit of a kerfuffle with over-subscription for tickets but my spies got in as they were on the ‘special’ list. The green room was not actually green but had free Red Nose Wine until it was time to go into the studio. No BBC Tuck Shop queue for them this time, unfortunately. Or maybe fortunately. Things that were given to the audience: Pompoms for the Eastenders dance, Blue Brothers hats and glasses for Dick & Dom’s dance, but no welding gear or leotard for Rob’s one. Shame.
The final is on Saturday 14th March. Vote Webb!
Have to show the video one more time:
The Death of Grass
Item! David Mitchell will be narrating an adaptation of The Death of Grass by John Christopher (writer of the Tripods trilogy that 30-something geeks might remember seeing the first two thirds of on the telly in the 80s) for the forthcoming sci-fi season that Radios 4 and 3 have coming up. As well as Mr Mitchell on narrating duties it also features Gus Brown (you know, from that sketch show and other things) and Abigail Burdess (ditto) as well as Jon Dryden Taylor who also did the adapting (and another one of those sketch writers who seem to be everywhere). Mr Taylor tells me David is “unsurprisingly brilliant at it” which is of course unsurprising. It’s on Radio 4 in the first week of March: five episodes from Monday to Friday at 10.45 am and 7.45pm.
Imagine that, but with voices instead of old book covers.
Busy!
What’s going on at the moment? Well…
There’s another series of that other show about truth and lies with David Mitchell aka The Unbelievable Truth being recorded in London on 26nd February, 4th March, 22nd March, 26th March. Tickets are available at the usual place. It’s more fun that the other thing about truth and lies that he is in as it’s for the radio which means less production kerfuffles, a beter bar and he is the chairman.
David’s first Soapbox video podcast thing is up online. The picture below may be a clue to the subject.
But what’s Rob up to?
From BBC Press Release:
Jo Brand, Dragons from Dragons’ Den (Peter Jones, Duncan Bannatyne, Deborah Meaden), Blue Peter presenters (Tim Vincent, Anthea Turner, Mark Curry, Diana Louise Jordan, Peter Duncan, Peter Purves, Janet Ellis, Helen Skelton), Dick & Dom, Keith Lemon & Paddy McGuinness and Robert Webb will be donning their dancing shoes for Let’s Dance For Comic Relief as part of this year’s Red Nose Day Campaign, it was announced today.
Anton Du Beke takes the reins as head panellist and will be joined by two guest panellists each week. Together the viewers and the panel will vote for their favourite dancers to go through to the final.
The show will be hosted by Claudia Winkleman and Steve Jones and launches on BBC One from Saturday 21 February 2009.
The series will run over four weeks, comprising three heats and culminating in a spectacular final dance off on Red Nose Day weekend.
The show will see some of the nation’s favourite celebrities pay homage to iconic dance routines in a bid to wow viewers with their moves and a chance to be crowned champion of the dance floor.
Each week a celebrity act (a mix of solo dancers, duos and groups) will recreate a number of famous dances from movie classics such as Saturday Night Fever and High School Musical – to pop classics such as Baby One More Time (Britney Spears) and Thriller (Michael Jackson).
They will work with a team of top choreographers to master the dance moves and with a team of stylists to represent their dance icon’s look.
They will then take to the floor to give the performance of their lives in front of a live studio audience and a panel of experts.
Who goes through and who gets a chance to compete in the final will be down to the public and the panel.
The final will see six celebrity acts dance for their chance to be crowned the Let’s Dance For Comic Relief Champion on Saturday 14 March 2009.
Proceeds from the voting will go to Comic Relief.
The show will be produced by Whizz Kid Entertainment for the BBC.
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