David Walliams News

A brand new season of the very best West End musicals, stand-up comedy, live music and drama has been announced today by Birmingham's New Alexandra Theatre.

The Belgrade Theatre has announced a selection of new shows to go on sale for 2017 which is turning out to be a show-stopping year, packed full of music, dance, laughter, drama and family fun.

Birmingham Stage Company, the acclaimed producers of HORRIBLE HISTORIES, are bringing their world premiere of David Walliams' GANGSTA GRANNY to The Bristol Hippodrome Theatre from Wed 31 May - Sat 3 Jun 2017.

Something on Saturday is back for another fun-filled year with the best entertainment for children aged 0 - 10 years from 23 April - 26 August 2017. This year's program is a celebration of 40 years of the Adelaide Festival Centre's commitment each year to delight and entertain thousands of people, providing an affordable opportunity to beat the winter blues with many South Australian children enjoying their first theatrical experience.

Maryam Master's adaptation of David Walliams' popular children's book MR STINK returns to the Sydney stage under Jonathan Biggins' direction.

Olivier Award-winning theatre company Mischief Theatre are bringing their comedy masterpiece The Play That Goes Wrong to Australia for the first time from February next year.

Everyone's favourite gem-stealing granny gets to celebrate her favourite food as 17 February 2017 marks National Cabbage day! David Walliams' best-selling book features the cabbage loving Granny whose top choices include cabbage soup, cabbage creme brulee and cabbage cottage cheese, much to the dismay of her grandson Ben.

ITV today announced that world-renowned chef and global television star Gordon Ramsay is to return to the UK's biggest commercial channel to front a primetime documentary series, a daytime cookery series and as a host on the network's forthcoming late night entertainment series, The Nightly Show. The new programmes in the pipeline mark the superstar chef's return back to where he first launched the globally successful and multi-award nominated Hell's Kitchen. Studio Ramsay will produce a new daytime cookery series for 2017. Due later in the year, Culinary Genius (20 x 60) is an entirely original format mixing food with compelling gameshow and cooking elements. The high octane, large-scale competition will run for four weeks on ITV, and each episode will see nine keen amateur cooks competing across a range of challenges in the hope of taking home a cash prize, and the title of Culinary Genius. Featuring a different guest professional chef each week, with Gordon Ramsay appearing in the first week of shows, the series will air in 2017, and the host will be confirmed in due course. Culinary Genius was commissioned by ITV's Head of Daytime, Helen Warner. Ramsay will also present a primetime hard hitting documentary series, which will begin filming this year, to be produced by Studio Ramsay. The documentary series has been commissioned by ITV's Head of Factual Entertainment, Sue Murphy. Both the documentary series and Culinary Genius will be distributed by All3media International. Ramsay will first be back on ITV in 2017, as guest host for one week of The Nightly Show, ITV's brand new week-night entertainment series. The 30-minute daily entertainment show will air at 10pm and the series will be stripped over five nights a week for an eight week run, featuring a different big name host each week. David Walliams will be in the hot seat for the launch week with more high profile names alongside Ramsay and Walliams to be announced in the near future. The Nightly Show will be produced for ITV by Second Act Productions and the commissioner is ITV's Head of Comedy Entertainment Peter Davey. Gordon Ramsay said: “We're reaching audiences on every level with this one, and I'm really excited to work on three completely different formats with ITV.” ?ITV's Director of Television Kevin Lygo said: 'Gordon is not only a world class chef, but a world class TV presenter, it's a great thing to have him back where it all started, with some brand new shows.  He's an irrepressible talent and we are really looking forward to his return to ITV in 2017.' ABOUT STUDIO RAMSAY and GORDON RAMSAY The next generation multi-media production company STUDIO RAMSAY has a joint venture with All3Media to develop and produce both unscripted and scripted television shows, creating new formats and innovative programming that includes a scripted arm focused on food related themes, and development of new talent on a global front.  The catalogue of programs that Ramsay has worked on historically with All3Media via One Potato Two Potato, together with new original content he's currently developing make for a unique and dynamic production and distribution partnership.  Studio Ramsay's first production, live food variety show “The F Word,” will premiere this year on Fox.   Renowned for highly successful and award-winning original programming, multi-Michelin star chef Gordon Ramsay produces TV shows on both sides of the Atlantic seen by audiences worldwide, including his Fox shows “MasterChef,” “MasterChef Junior”, “Hell's Kitchen,” “Hotel Hell,” and “MasterChef Celebrity Showdown,” as well as Bravo's “Best New Restaurant” and Food Network's competition series “Food Court Wars.”  In the U.K. he's produced “Gordon Ramsay Behind Bars” and “Gordon Ramsay's Great Escape” for Channel 4; food biography and nostalgia series “My Kitchen” for UKTV's Good Food Channel; two instructional cookery series, “Ultimate Home Cooking” and “Ultimate Cookery Course” for Channel 4, and the first two seasons of “Matilda and the Ramsay Bunch” starring Tilly Ramsay for U.K. children's channel CBBC, all under his One Potato Two Potato banner. MEDIA CONTACTS ITV Jenny Cummins Jenny.Cummins@ITV.com  020 7157 3017  Objective Media Group/All3Media Sally Kent  sallykent@objectivemediagroup.co.uk  +020 7202 2366  Gordon Ramsay/STUDIO RAMSAY  Staci Wolfe/Polaris PR  Staci_wolfe@polarispr.com (323) 939-7535

Today, Les Enfants Terribles in collaboration with Greenwich Theatre have announced the ten nominees for the sixth LET Award. The award is designed to help two new companies produce an original piece of work each at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017.

???????This August, Birmingham Stage Company takes over the Garrick Theatre in London's West End to present Horrible Histories - More Best of Barmy Britain, celebrating the company's 25th anniversary.

David Walliams' award-winning book will come to life on stage for children aged 6-12 years (and their young-at-heart adults) when this charming original Australian adaptation plays at the Seymour Centre on February 27th.

Tickets are now on sale for David Walliams' Awful Auntie, published by HarperCollins Children's Books, which comes to the New Alexandra Theatre from Wednesday 22 to Sunday 26 November 2017.

DHX Media (or the 'Company') (TSX: DHX.A, DHX.B; DHXM), the world's leading independent, pure-play children's content company, has licensed exclusive U.S. broadcast rights for 30 brand-new half-hour episodes of TELETUBBIES which will begin airing on Nickelodeon's Nick Jr. preschool channel in 2017.

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On December 24, 2016, Dame Bassey shared an early birthday celebration with the BBC's David Walliams. Performing songs from her repertoire, she lit up the stage with her presence. Celebrate the day by watching her divine interpretation of Sondheim's 'I'm Still Here.'

Images of David Walliams visiting the set of The First Hippo on the Moon and production images for the play have been released today.

Olivier award-winning producer Sue Scott Davison, Creative Programmer of the Broadway Theatre - a new mid-scale theatre in Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire, only half an hour from London - today announces the venue's inaugural season which will run from February to May 2017.

An exciting summer and autumn program featuring a witchy ride through the skies, a New York-based clowning duo with breathtaking air sculptures, Canadian "sheep" on the lawn and a fake-bloody Shakespearean tale will make Arts Centre Melbourne the place for families when the weather warms up.

Today, Les Petits Theatre Company have announced the full cast and ten further tour dates for the world premiere of the stage adaptation of David Walliams' The First Hippo on the Moon. The cast includes Dominic Allen, Alice Bounce, Caroline Bowman, Owen Jenkins and Rosie Nicholls.

Australia's largest performing arts centre, Arts Centre Melbourne has today launched its 2017 Arts Learning Program featuring the best local and international performing arts created for young people. With performances, digital learning experiences and workshops for primary and secondary students, Arts Centre Melbourne's education program is designed to facilitate quality learning and lasting engagement with the performing arts.