DAVID WALLIAMS signs a further three-book deal with HarperCollins

HarperCollins Children’s Books UK has signed a further three-book deal with David Walliams that will see his novels published through 2014.

Walliams has already had three books published by HarperCollins; The Boy in the Dress (2008) Mr. Stink (2009) and Billionaire Boy (2010).

His next novel, Gangsta Granny, will be published in November 2011. 

Gangsta Granny Description:

"Our hero Ben is bored beyond belief after he is made to stay at his grandma’s house. She’s the boringest grandma ever: all she wants to do is to play Scrabble, and eat cabbage soup. But there are two things Ben doesn’t know about his grandma. 1) She was once an international jewel thief. 2) All her life, she has been plotting to steal the crown jewels, and now she needs Ben’s help…"

SOURCE: Harper Collins UK

MATT LUCAS at the BAFTAS

Matt Lucas walks the red carpet at the Philips British Academy Television Awards in 2011.

Q&A with DAVID WALLIAMS

The comedy series from Little Britain creators David Walliams and Matt Lucas, Come Fly With Me, launched last week to almost 1.5million viewers and minor turbulence as regional broadcasters held it back lest it offend viewers.

In this mini-interview, Walliams talks to The Sydney Morning Herald's; The Guide.

 

SOURCE: THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD- THE GUIDE

David Walliams and Lara Stone celebrate their first wedding anniversary...

On May 16th, David Walliams and supermodel Lara Stone celebrated their first year wedding anniversary.

To celebrate HELLO magazine published their love story in pictures on their site.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY DAVID and LARA!

‘Come Fly with Me’ debuts with 1.49m on Nine

The premiere of Nine’s new comedy ‘Come Fly With Me’ was the surprise ratings hit in the ratings on Monday night.

The mock-documentary comedy series rated 1.49 million at 8:00pm for the Nine Network.

The comedy, starring Little Britain’s Matt Lucas and David Walliams (pictured), takes a look at the people who work in and pass through airports.

Lucas and Walliams made their long-awaited television return in the comedy, drawing on every aspect of airport life through various comic characters.

‘Come Fly With Me’ airs Monday 8:00pm on the Nine Network.

SOURCE: TV CENTRAL

DAVID WALLIAMS is Awfully Good...

David Walliams returns to UK screens, this time in a presenting role, as he runs down the most embarrassing clips from TV, films and adverts.

Fresh from bringing his and Matt Lucas’s new comedy Come Fly with Me to our screens over Christmas, David Walliams presents a new three-part compendium of guilty viewing pleasures: two hours’ worth of cringe-worthy clips from the television shows, films and adverts that are “so bad, they’re good” (the programme-makers’ promise, not ours).

These include everything from Keanu Reeves being out-acted by a wooden stake in Bram Stoker’s Dracula to the embarrassing roaring shark from Jaws 4: The Revenge and excruciating attempts by the BBC to get hip in the 1970s with a contemporary black music show called Blackcurrent – which lasted a mere one episode.

SOURCE: The Telegraph

MATT LUCAS'S Radio 2 panel show to be piloted for TV

The BBC has announced that 'And The Winner Is...', the Radio 2 panel show hosted Matt Lucas, will be piloted for television.

A hit on Radio 2 since its premiere in February 2010, the format - hosted by the Little Britain and Come Fly With Me star - is a comedy panel game in which celebrity guests are invited to nominate recipients to receive 'a prestigious Lucas Award'.

For example, awards handed out so far on the radio version have included 'Sexiest British Prime Minister', 'Greatest Song By A Musical Artist Who Is Otherwise Rubbish', and 'Most Disappointing Film Sequel'.

A second series of And The Winner Is... is currently broadcasting on Radio 2 on Saturday nights at 10pm. The show is produced by Ashley Blaker, who worked with Lucas and David Walliams to bring Little Britain to Radio 4.

The television pilot, which has been given the working title The Matt Lucas Awards, will be recorded in front of a live audience on Thursday 12th May 2011 at Television Centre.

In June, the other current radio panel show Ashley Blaker produces is also due to be piloted for TV. In Radio 4's Act Your Age, different generations of stand-up comedians attempt to tell the funniest jokes.

Source: The British Comedy Guide

DAVID WALLIAMS completely renovates new Brighton home

DAVID Walliams certainly knows how to treat his Laydee wife.

The Little Britain star has splashed out £1.7million on an all-new marital home for supermodel Lara Stone.

The openly heterosexual star, 39, who purchased the sea-view property in Brighton (the gay capital of Britain) last year, has virtually knocked it down and had it rebuilt.

His luxury renovations include an en suite master bedroom with his ’n’ hers sinks and a wall-to-wall mirrored dressing room. It will also house a “nursery-style room” – presumably for when Matt Lucas, as big baby George Dawes, comes to visit.

There is just one big drawback to their dream home... the unfortunate pair have ended up a stone’s throw from Paul McCartney’s ex, Heather Mills.

Having Mucca so close would not sit well with David’s Little Britain character, Neighbourhood Watch jobsworth Sid Pegg.

My source reveals: “David was house-hunting in Brighton for some time – he loves the bohemian feel of the town. After exchanging on a stunning sea-view house, he and Lara decided to completely renovate it – the building is a shell at present. They want to make it a real family home and add loads of personal touches. Both David and Lara would love to have kids so she is keen for a nursery.

“As a supermodel she also has an extensive wardrobe, so David will be giving her a room dedicated to clothes storage. But he also has a pretty expansive wardrobe, what with so many keepsakes from Little Britain – laydees’ frocks, wigs and comedy glasses.

“There will just as likely be a room for him where he can try on various costumes and enjoy a spot of privacy.”

The unlikely couple, who got married a year ago, attended a Japan disaster appeal fundraiser at London’s Nobu on Thursday and left around midnight.

Wonder if the Mucca news will wipe those smiles off their faces...

SOURCE: THE MIRROR

Matt Lucas & Alfie Boe- Kitchen Karaoke "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother"

What does @RealMattLucas, @AlfieBoe, brothers, Astro Boy, kitchen karaoke & infectious smiles have in common?


This video:

COME FLY WITH ME Trailer

Channel NINE has finally released the air date of COME FLY WITH ME. The show starring Matt Lucas and David Walliams will start on MONDAY 16th MAY at 8pm.

You can catch the trailer for the series below:

COME FLY WITH ME on Nine

Set in and around a fictitious airport and its three airlines FlyLo, Our Lady Air and Great British Air, it again sees the two comedians playing multiple characters.

But Lucas and Walliams have noted the series is not as grotesque as some of their Little Britain characters who include the manager of the airport’s coffee kiosk ‘Precious Little’, the airport’s chief immigration officer ‘Ian Foot’, a camp air steward ‘Fearghal O’Farrell’ and the owner of low-cost airline FlyLo, ‘Omar Baba.’

A second series was announced by the BBC last week.

Source: TV Tonight