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Welcome to the Chambers Management September 2008 Talent Update In this email:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Edinburgh Fringe 2008 round up This year's Fringe was an incredible success with all acts playing to sell-out audiences and receiving rave reviews across the board. History was made as two Chambers acts won both If. Comedy awards. Congratulations to David O' Doherty for winning the Main Award for his show Let's Comedy and to Sarah Millican who secured the Best Newcomer Award for her debut solo show, Sarah Millican's Not Nice. David's award topped off a busy festival as he performed in three different shows every day of the month. Described as "a scintillating comic force" by The Scotsman, his winning show, Let's Comedy was critically acclaimed: "truly hilarious" from The List and "comedy magic" from The Telegraph with The Guardian Online suggesting, "when a stand up gig goes this well, you do get a sense of how religions are started." Both David and Sarah will be performing in the If. Comedy showcase in London, details of which will be announced soon. David will then be embarking on a national tour - details here http://www.myspace.com/phlaimeaux with more dates due to be added! Sarah's show was described by the Telegraph as "a perfectly formed hour - touching, witty and wonderfully ribald", with Veronica Lee declaring Sarah to be "one of the most talented newcomers I have seen in many years", Sarah enjoyed a complete sellout with Chortle concluding that hers was "an impressive, and consistently funny, festival debut whilst Stephen Armstrong for the Sunday Times predicted "a great future." Nica Burns, Director of the If.Comedy Awards stated that Sarah was "an outstanding young female stand up" and she described David as "utterly delightful." Double If.Comedy Award-nominated Andrew Lawrence
enjoyed another fantastic sell-out Fringe with The Scotsman declaring "
Josh Howie's debut Fringe
was also a big success with The Observer praising his "diamond-sharp
wit" and both The Scotsman and The Times pinpointing Josh as "a name
to watch." See Sarah interviewed on an Edinburgh Festival special edition of the Culture Show, tonight 11.20pm on BBC 2. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack Whitehall hosts week of Big Brother's Big Mouth with more TV projects in the pipeline
Following the success of presenting the live launch show in June, Jack Whitehall is back as the resident host of Big Brother's Big Mouth which began Tuesday and concludes on Friday (29th). Catch Jack discussing all the latest in the house tonight at 10.00pm and tomorrow at 11.05pm live on E4 http://www.channel4.com/bigbrother/whats-on/bbbm.jsp
Jack has had a busy six months packed with new projects with plenty more to come. His edition of Funny Cuts aired on E4 last week and can be seen here: http://www.e4.com/video/TXXCkyvjWv6F6KhIirsTB5/play.e4 and part 2 is here: http://www.e4.com/video/BeHKbCBQd7PEke9vlCTjII/play.e4. Jack will be appearing in the second series of Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse's sketch show Ruddy Hell! It's Harry and Paul, which will return to BBC1 later in the year and also a brand new sketch show called Beehive http://www.tigeraspect.co.uk/in-production-prog.asp?id=894. Both shows are due to be broadcast later in the year. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ninia Benjamin and Jason Wood to star in Living TV’s The Underdog Show Both Ninia and Jason recently completed their filming of The Underdog Show which will be aired next month. They both took part in a six-week crash course in dog training; working hard to train their dogs in preparation for a series of obedience and agility tests. The aim was to avoid being eliminated and to impress a panel of judges including Strictly Come Dancing star Brendan Cole and professional dog trainers Donelda Guy and Steve Mann. Tune in weekly from Mid September to see how they did! Hosted by Tara Palmer Tomkinson and Mark Durden Smith the second series of the hit programme will this year be shown on Living TV. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ninia Benjamin supports Puppetry of the Penis on South African Tour Ninia will be supporting "Puppetry Of The Penis" as they tour South Africa this September & October. She will be opening for the exciting and shocking act on 37 dates of their tour; including dates as part of the Cape Town International Comedy Festival at The Baxter Theatre, Cape Town and then onto Johannesburg at the hugely established UJ Arts Centre. http://www.comedyfestival.co.za/danger_zone.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jimmy Carr's new tour, Joke Technician, kicks off after sellout Edinburgh run Jimmy Carr enjoyed another sell-out Fringe run of his brand new show Joke Technician with two extra dates added due to phenomenal demand, playing to 12,000 fans overall. When he returns from performing in the States, he will embark on a national tour with the new show. At present there are 120 confirmed dates with new shows being added all the time. Keep checking www.jimmycarr.com for all the latest info. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8 out of 10 Cats series 7 starts next week Following on from the huge success of the sixth series, shown earlier this year, the hit topical panel show based on polls and statistics is back for an Autumn series. The series begins: Thursday 4th September, 10pm Channel 4. For more information go to: http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/microsites/0-9/8outof10cats/index.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Frankie Boyle rounds off Mock the Week Frankie Boyle will be recording three more episodes to complete the series of Mock the Week which has so far attracted 4.5million viewers across the two BBC2 transmissions. Frankie will then start on the second leg of his tour with the 50 forthcoming Autumn tour dates almost completely sold out. A second Hammersmith Apollo date has just been added due to phenomenal demand. The extra date is Sunday 7th December. Tickets available: http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/event/17004108ADE06CE0?camefrom=CFC_UK_MAMA_HAMMERSMITH Keep an eye on Frankie's website: www.frankieboyle.com for all his tour dates. Brand new redesigned website set to launch soon! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Demetri Martin to play lead in Ang Lee's new film Demetri Martin is currently starring as the lead in Ang Lee's new film Taking Woodstock, based on Eliot Tiber's memoir. Demetri will play Tiber who is working at his parents' motel in the Catskills when he inadvertently sets in motion the legendary concert in the summer of 1969. The film will also star Eugene Levy and Imelda Staunton and is set for release in June 2009. For more information on Tiber's story and the film, go to: http://elliottiber.com/film/index.html and http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1127896/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Flight of the Conchords prepare to start filming second series of their hit HBO showFilming is to begin shortly on the second series of the enormously successful Emmy Award-winning show Flight of the Conchords. Following their Grammy win, Bret and Jemaine have been busy touring the States on a sell-out arena tour and will now return to record another twelve part series to be shown on HBO. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Previous Chambers Management Talent mailing lists can be found at http://www.chambersmgt.co.uk/mailinglist.htm Forthcoming shows To see when our acts are performing next, please visit www.chambersmgt.co.uk/shows.htm Many of our acts appear regularly on the stand-up comedy circuit within London and the rest of the UK, though Demetri Martin and Flight of the Conchords are based in New York and New Zealand respectively. Demetri Martin is a regular guest on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, which can be viewed on More 4 weekdays at 8:30pm. We would love for you to be our guest at any of our clients' performances. These will be publicised in future mailings and will enable you to discover the talent we have on offer at Chambers Management in addition to the plethora of experience that our clients possess. ------------------------- Contact Us Subject to their availability, our acts are able to attend castings or read-throughs as necessary. Please contact us to discuss your casting requirements, learn more about our artists and to arrange a suitable date on which to view our acts live. T: 0207 796 3588 info@chambersmgt.co.uk ------------------------- For more information on Chambers Management or any of our artists, please visit www.chambersmgt.co.uk. We look forward to speaking with you soon. Chambers Management To stop receiving these messages, please send an email with 'unsubscribe' in the subject field to info@chambersmgt.co.uk.
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