How we met: Danny Brocklehurst & Max Beesley ‘I have a difficult relationship with actors. It doesn’t always do to be friends with them’ Interview by Julian Hall Sunday, 10 June 2007 Danny Brocklehurst, 35 won a Bafta for his screenwriting contributions to ‘Shameless’. Among other credits are ‘Sorted’, ‘Clocking Off’ and a new series, […]
Read MoreRaquel Cassidy interview, Summer 2007 From Teachers to Party Animals via Lead Balloon, Raquel Cassidy is rarely off our screens these days. Julian Hall talks to the actress sleeping late, empathising with murderers and ‘getting mucky’… I’ve arranged to meet Raquel Cassidy at a cafe next door to the Royal Court Theatre in London’s Sloane […]
Read MoreFirst Night: Ricky Gervais, Madison Square Garden, New York Near-the-knuckle Gervais pushes US boundaries By Julian Hall Outside New York’s Madison Square Garden Theatre, ticket touts were having difficulties pronouncing Ricky Gervais’s name. “Want tickets for Ricky Gerva?” they inquired, hesitantly. Inside, however, most people knew exactly who they had come to see and they […]
Read MoreRoss Noble interview, Spring 2007 Star of the Edinburgh Festival and voted 10th best stand up of all time, Ross Noble is a comic phenomenon. Julian Hall catches up with him ahead of his latest world tour. There are no two ways about it, Ross Noble is a comic phenomenon. You may not have seen him on television much, except perhaps the odd appearance on […]
Read MoreAn Uncommon Correspondent Julian Hall talks to award-winning journalist John Pilger Celebrated and controversial campaigning journalist and film-maker John Pilger, whose forty-year career includes extensive work for national newspapers (both here and in his native Australia), a stint as a reporter for TV’s current affairs flagship show World In Action, and seminal documentaries on East […]
Read MoreIn 2006, my Rough Guide to British Cult Comedy was published by Penguin. It received a series of good reviews and is one a very few non-fiction guides to the genre. You can try before you buy http://roughguidetocomedy.blogspot.com/ Buy the Rough Guide to British Cult Comedy at AmazonI will […]
Read MoreGet a BA in comedy: Make them laugh… Heard the one about the BA in comedy? No, really, it exists, because making people laugh, in pubs and clubs and on TV, is big business now. By Julian Hall Last weekend, I did something funny. Bizarre, even. I dropped in on a vocational comedy course that […]
Read MoreThe cup floweth over Julian Hall looks back Chelsea and Fulham player’s World Cup performance and forward to the new season. There was a stage of last season where it looked like south-west London’s two premiership teams might be shoring up both ends of the division. Luckily for the determined manager Chris Coleman and his team, Fulham turned things around […]
Read MoreThe treatment that helped win a pitch for Radio 2’s Christmas Day programme. David Jason’s Christmas Comedy Classics aired on 25/12/11. Working title: Comedy’s Christmas Classics / ‘Tis The Season To Be Jolly Comedy should be shared. At no point is this more true than at Christmas when whole families gather around televisions and radios […]
Read MoreAs Judge John Deed returns we catch up with Jenny Seagrove who plays barrister Jo Mills You wouldn’t normally expect a man in a grey wig to be a crowd-pleaser, but Judge John Deed certainly is. And he’s back this week for a fifth series of the legal drama. This latest outing for the show, […]
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