A long-awaited Harry Potter character is finally making their on-screen debut thanks to HBO, and the franchise is going to be infinitely better for it ...

Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson’s Bottom exploded onto British television in the early nineties. The anarchic sitcom was violent, rude, disgusting and so uproariously funny that it became an instant ...

05:00, Fri, Nov 14, 2025 Updated: 12:55, Fri, Nov 14, 2025 Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson’s Bottom exploded onto British television in the early nineties. The anarchic sitcom was violent, rude, ...

The Rik Mayall comedy festival is inviting comedians to apply for the 2026 event. The volunteer-run festival is returning to Mayall’s hometown of Droitwich Spa for a second year, running from May 29 ...

Comedian Ben Elton said working with the late Rik Mayall gave him some of "the most glorious creative moments" he had ever had and writing about him helped him to deal with some of his grief over his ...

A comedy festival that played to sell-out audiences as it remembered the late Rik Mayall has announced its dates for next year. The second Rik Mayall Comedy Festival will be held in Droitwich from 29 ...

Lemmy – the hardened, mutton-chopped Motörhead frontman – warned the spoof metal band Bad News of “dangerous territory” as they went out to play the 1986 Monsters of Rock festival at Castle Donington.

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Poor Charlie Weasley. While all the other Weasleys made it into the films at one point or another, Charlie himself never actually appeared, short of being in their Egypt vacation photograph in Harry ...