The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin. I knew when I first saw the trailer of this vaguely historical comedy series with Noel Fielding in the title role that me and my daughter would love it. And indeed we did, laughed wholeheartedly at the silliness of it all, and the many dick jokes brought on by the lead character's first name. It's nowhere near on par with Blackadder, but it's clearly in the same vein. The series reinvents Dick Turpin (one of the most notorious and ruthless highwaymen in English history) as a shallow but good-hearted man ticking all the boxes of modern deconstruction (vegetarian, gender-fluid, etc.) who falls into highway robbery by accident and likes the fame that comes with it. It's a laugh, although I doubt I'll be watching it again (unlike Blackadder). #tvseries#comedy#history#noelfielding
Apple TV's new six-episode comedy series "The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin", starring "The British Baking Show" host Noel Fielding, Ellie White, Hugh Bonneville and Tamsin Greig, will drop its first two episodes on Friday, March 1 with the remaining episodes premiering weekly. #TheCompletelyMadeUpAdventuresOfDickTurpin#NoelFielding#AppleTV#Comedy#Television#Streaming
There's a Channel 4 "Dispatches" exclusive announced for tonight, about UK comedy people. Dispatches doesn't usually get shown on Saturdays.
Russell Brand has already put out a YT explaining he was "promiscuous in the past" but Popbitch says there's more than one. In case you've missed what Brand is up to these days since the Sachs thing, he's a Covid denier, anti-vax, great reset, the whole shebang. Musk and Tate have defended him so far.
Lots of evidence in the doc if you are able to watch it.
I see Michael Hogan drew the short straw in the Guardian, a little client journalism for Noel Fielding on there today. If you watch the doc, they show a clip of Bob Geldof calling Brand a c**t at an awards ceremony in 2006.
Brand and Fielding are long-term friends, they both made moves on Geldof's daughters. Noel was 33 going after 16 year old Pixie, Brand went for Peaches.