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Here We Go (again) - Series 2 starts this Friday (2nd Feb) at 8pm on BBC1

Hi Everyone,


The first episode of Here We Go series 2 is very much on the telly this Friday at 8 on BBC1, and all 6 episodes plop onto iPlayer (I believe) directly afterwards, so it's basically all available at once if you can't/won't wait for weekly instalments. Please do tune in/click on it, depending on the technology you're using.

The Christmas Special is also on iPlayer now in case you missed that,(https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001tlhm/here-we-go-mums-classic-family-christmas) as well as all of Series 1 and the pilot from 2020.

There are some excellent guest stars in this series (eg Harry Enfield), and fun stuff involving going glamping, entering 5 a side football tournament and turning a hearse into an ice cream van, so it'll hopefully go some way towards compensating for the dire state of the weather/world.

Good luck!

Tom

HERE WE GO - BBC1 8.30 Friday 29th April

Hi everyone,

I have a new sitcom coming out this Friday which I wrote and am also in (I'm on the far right nestled behind Jim Howick in the photo, look). It's called Here We Go and it's on BBC1 at 8.30pm (as in the 29th - also my Dad's birthday (not relevant to this post but truth nonetheless)). 

All the episodes will be available on iPlayer from 9pm on Friday here (eps 2 and 5 are my favourites fyi). 

It's essentially a full series of the pilot I made back in 2020 (which was called Pandemonium*) about a family called the Jessops who, to be fair to them, do their absolute level best to have a good time together. 

It's sort of like the National Lampoons Vacation movies crossed with The Office if you can imagine that. It's got brilliant, funny people like Alison Steadman and Katherine Parkinson in it and I pop up here and there playing a loveable dickhead called Robin. 

Please watch if you can/would like to, either AT THE TIME (8.30pm on Friday) or AT YOUR LEISURE on iPlayer. 

Good luck! 

Tom


*the pilot was all about the pandemic (hence the name), but the series isn't at all (hence the name change).

PANDEMONIUM on BBC1 30th December

Hi all,

I made a TV show during the old pandemic about a family trying to go on holiday during said pandemic and (spoiler alert) struggling. Here's a picture of me with the cast (e.g. Alison Steadman for goodness sake) to prove it. 

It's called Pandemonium and it's on at 9.45(pm) on BBC1 on the 30th (of December).

Despite having to wear masks all the time and not being allowed to high five the crew between takes, I'm really happy with how it's turned out. Please do tune in if you're the kind of person who likes to watch things when they're actually on. Otherwise maybe watch it on iPlayer here.

If you want to read an article by an American journalist attempting to get his head around it, there's one in, weirdly, the New York Times here.

Good luck! 

Tom


Tim Key's Radio 4 Show New Series Tonight at 11pm





Hi all,

Hope everyone's as well as can be expected and has enough loo roll / pesto.
Just to say that the new series of Tim Key's Late Night Poetry Programme (which I'm also in (not that you'd know it from the shamelessly self-promoting title)) starts at 11pm on Wednesday 18th March on Radio 4 and is on for the next 4 Wednesdays. 

If you miss it, it'll be on BBC Sounds (I think - don't completely understand the new app to be fair). You can listen to the last ep of the previous series if you want to get a sense of it here (there's not a plot to follow exactly so no pressing need to catch up). 

If you are self-isolating or were already quite an anti-social person and on the hunt for some entertainment / other human voices, please do give it a go.

Here's a picture of us (or some kind of flag maybe?) from a few years back which gives a sense of the tone of the thing.

Good luck!
Tom

BLOOMSBURY THEATRE GIG

Hi everyone,

Happy 2020. I know it's not been a terrific decade so far, but bear with it.

For one thing, I'm headlining the Musical Comedy Awards at (London's) Bloomsbury Theatre on April 4th, which I think we can all agree is exactly the tonic we need after Brexit and the sham Trump impeachment trial.

All the details are here.
Also, if you enter the promo code TOM2020 when buying tickets you get money off.


Because it's a musical-comedy-themed evening, it'll just be songs. So if you came to my show at the Soho Theatre last month and were all like 'Why were there only 3 songs in it, I want my money back etc etc'  - this gig will be way more up your street. 

Equally, if you're one of those people who sometimes comes to a gig wanting to hear old songs I don't really play anymore, I will almost certainly do them all here / take requests, provided a) I can remember them and b) it's one of my songs and not, for example, I Gotta Feeling by the Black Eyed Peas.

[Here's a photo of me a fair while ago, wearing a t-shirt I no longer own, playing a guitar I subsequently sold to give you an idea of the sort of thing it'll look like. [But I'll be older. And probably in a shirt.]]

Tom

Soho Theatre Run January 2020






Hi everyone,

I'm doing a 6 night run of my new stand up show SORRY THANK YOU PLEASE at London's (glittering) Soho Theatre in January 2020, which I know sounds like a long way off because it's in a new decade and everything, but it (genuinely) isn't.

Tickets and blurb and fun photo of me in a big chair here.

It's every night from the 13th - 18th, so no excuses not to come really. Also, it's a famously very depressing time of the year, so it'll do you good just to get out the house in my opinion.
Here's a photo of me thinking about Christmas in the meantime.

Tom

3 Work In Progress Shows

Hi all,

I've got 3 work in progress stand-up shows at the Bill Murray this month (September (2019)). 

They're on the 11th, the 25th and the 9th (that one's in October to be fair).
They're all at 9.30pm, so will have an edgy late-night / sweary / tired feel. 
Not wanting to jinx it but I suspect at least two of them will be GOOD and one of them will be a TRIUMPH.

If you'd like to buy tickets (only £6.50 for Pete's sake) - you can do so here.
That link also contains some blurb and a list of some of the TV shows I've been in if that's the sort of thing you find reassuring.

The Bill Murray is here. It's an excellent venue in London's Islington. 

Please come if you can / want to. 

Tom