Benedict Cumberbatch: Award nod for Cabin Pressure R4 comedy up for best radio show (CHORTLE)

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Radio 4 sitcom Cabin Pressure has been nominated for best radio programme in the prestigious Broadcasting Press Guild Awards.

The series about a small airline company, written by John Finnemore, will be up against the Radio 4 adaptation of James Joyce's Ulysses and Soul Music, a series about music with a strong emotional impact.

Cabin Pressure stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Roger Allam have also both been nominated for best actor at the awards; Allam for his role in The Thick Of It and Cumberbatch for BBC Two period drama Parade’s End

READ MORE:http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2013/02/14/17191/award_nod_for_cabin_pressure

Dawn French to play James Corden's mum in star-studded show (THE SUN)

By ANNE RICHARDSON
Published: 28th January 2013

DAWN French will play James Corden’s MUM in a new sitcom.

The comedy veteran – famed for her partnership with Jennifer Saunders – will star in The Wrong Mans on BBC Two, which has been co-written by James and his friend Mathew Baynton.

The show will also feature of a host of other comedy talents, including The Thick Of It’s Rebecca Front, Him and Her’s Sarah Solemani and Shooting Star’s Angelos Epithemiou – aka Dan Renton Skinner.

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BBC's Sherlock voted top TV show of 2012 Benedict Cumberbatch's portrayal of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's detective wins Radio Times poll (GUARDIAN)

Caroline Davies and agency
The Guardian, Thursday 27 December 2012

The sleuth drama Sherlock, a modern-day version of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's crime-solving stories, has been voted the top TV show of 2012 in a Radio Times poll of writers and critics.

Starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, the BBC1 series beat the US Emmy and Golden Globe winning thriller Homeland, shown on Channel 4, into second place.

The Olympics comedy Twenty Twelve, the BBC2 mockumentary following a fictitious team behind the Games and starring Hugh Bonneville and Jessica Hynes, was voted third.

Armando Iannucci's political satire The Thick of It, another BBC2 series, was placed fourth in the TV Top 10.

READ MORE: http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2012/dec/28/bbc-sherlock-top-show-2012?_tmc=Csk0-0YPaQHf0gQgSeq0FQiLHUnfqALWEfrbuhZAdOI