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Lionsgate has partnered with Big Talk Productions and Mischief Screen to bring a comedy stage play to BBC One.

The British public broadcaster has commissioned The Goes Wrong Show, which is based on Mischief Theatre’s eponymous play from the team behind Peter Pan Goes Wrong and A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong, which were previously adapted for television.

The six-part series follows the Cornley Drama Society undertaking another overly ambitious endeavour, held back by prolific over-actor Robert Grove, the screen-hogging Sandra Wilkinson and the artistically mistrusted Dennis Tyde. The half-hour episodes are described as “theatrical catastrophe”.

The Goes Wrong Show will be written by and star the original founding Mischief Theatre members including Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields alongside Nancy Zamit, Charlie Russell, Bryony Corrigan, Greg Tannahill, Dave Hearn and Chris Leask. It will be filmed in front of a live studio audience.

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Tim Minchin is to star in an upcoming BBC sitcom titled 88 Keys.

The comic musician will lead the cast of his first sitcom as a brash cocktail pianist in a pilot written by Fresh Meat's Jon Brown.

Fonejacker star Kayvan Novak will appear alongside Minchin in the pilot as a barman.

88 Keys will centre around Charlie (Minchin), who has big dreams of success alongside his colleague Amy at the Carlton Arms Hotel.

The pair are described as "monstrous rampaging ego-morons" whose connection causes "unseen complications".

The show will have a non-broadcast pilot produced by Big Talk (Him & Her, Spaced).

Big Talk's Kenton Allen stated that the show is like the "son of Black Books" as it reunites director Martin Dennis with co-chief executive Nira Park, who previously produced the Channel 4 sitcom.

"Tim Minchin is without doubt one of the most multi-talented performers in the world and we are...

‘Skyfall’ Brings Windfall To UK’s Odeon Circuit On Thursday, Skyfall became the UK’s all-time highest grossing 007 movie, taking £57M ($91.2)in just 12 days. Odeon, Britain’s largest cinema chain, is reaping the benefits of the breakout Bond movie scoring the largest 7-day opening ever for a single film with £11.3M ($18.1M) in takings at its theaters. Its flagship cinema, Odeon Leicester Square, also set a new record with more than £530K ($848K) in Skyfall’s first week to overtake Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2, which took £495K ($792K at current exchange rate) in 2011. Odeon had a 30.5% market share of Skyfall’s UK box office in its first week. Big Talk Backs ‘The Job Lot’ The UK’s Big Talk Productions, the company with a hand in such films like Shaun Of The Dead, Hot Fuzz and Paul, is producing a new sitcom for ITV. The Job...

Breckin Meyer and Melissa George round out the cast of NBC's comedy pilot Coupling, from Ben Silverman's Reveille and NBC Studios. The two join Lindsay Price, Jay Harrington, Colin Ferguson and Emily Rutherfurd in the show, which revolves around the love and lust of a group of six thirtysomethings who are either involved, formerly involved or looking to become intimately involved. Based on the British series of the same name, the NBC project is eyed as a potential successor to the network's hit Friends. The writer of the British series, Steven Moffat, is penning the pilot and is executive producing with Meyer's wife Deborah Kaplan, Harry Elfont, Silverman, Beryl Vertue and Sue Vertue. Martin Dennis, helmer of the original series, will direct the pilot, scheduled to start production next month.