Adam Kay: Last News

Bridgewater Hall is extra special for Lennie as it’s her homecoming, as her daughter puts it, as she grew up in Salford. Also for the evening, we’re graced with a surprise guest, who turns out to be the wonderful Adam Kay, of the adored This Is Going To Hurt book and BBC TV series.

Midsomer Murders' star Neil Dudgeon has taken to Twitter to react after his on-screen wife, played by Fiona Dolman, posed proudly with her new ITV co-stars.The actor, 61, who plays DCI John Barnaby on the hit ITV whodunit series, reacted as Fiona shared a post with the stars of Alan Titchmarsh's show Love Your Weekend, which she appeared on last week.Fiona, who plays Sarah Barnaby on the programme, posted a snap to Twitter of herself with celebrity gardener Alan Titchmarch and her two fellow guests, Adam Kay and Petula Clark, standing in a sun-drenched garden.Responding to the post, her Midsomer Murders' colleague Neil wrote: "Blimey!"It’s all go chez Dolman, innit?"Look at you with Petula Clark! X" he penned in amazement, before ending the post.Fiona had taken to the micro-blogging platform to reveal that she would be appearing on Love Your Weekend alongside her two celebrity friends.She told her 8,571 followers: "This sunday @ITV #LoveYourWeekend with @amateuradam and @PetulaClarkHQ"I was chatting #MidsomerMurders and @hospiceuk with the delightful Alan Titmarsh."We had a lovely time (despite this looking as though Adam and I are holding a rather nice couple hostage in their garden)," she quipped.Following Neil's comment, one avid fan of the murder mystery programme commented with a suggestion as to who could guest star on the show next from Fiona's new group of showbiz pals.Twitter user @Philipcarman wrote: "Alan would be a great guest on Midsomer Murders!"Following Fiona's appearance on the hit gardening show, her fans took to the platform to share their thoughts.@TaniaEsteban_ wrote: "Was feeling jet lagged on the sofa after just landing...

If you're wondering what's coming up on the TV schedule this week, Tuesday is set to be a busy evening across the broadcasting channels with something to watch for everyone. There's a couple of new shows joining the line-up but a few programmes will also be concluding. We've selected five TV highlights for Tuesday, March 22, below but don't forget there is plenty more to watch.

Jarvis Cocker‘s JARV IS… recently composed the score for new BBC comedy drama This Is Going To Hurt and you can now listen to the full soundtrack below.The show, which premiered earlier this month on BBC1, stars Ben Whishaw as a junior doctor in the NHS. JARV IS…have written and performed the original soundtrack for the show, which is based on Adam Kay’s award-winning international multi-million selling memoir of the same name.The soundtrack, which Cocker described as “our love song to the NHS”, was recorded at Narcissus Studios throughout 2021 and most of the performances are live takes featuring the entire band – often recorded whilst they watched the playback of key sequences from the series.Each episode features at least one song with lyrics by Cocker, who had access to the scripts (adapted by Adam Kay from his own book) from an early stage in the production process.You can listen to the soundtrack here:JARV IS… This Is Going To Hurt Soundtrack  1: ‘This is Going to Hurt’2: ‘Visiting Hours’3: ‘Adam’s Nightmare’4: ‘Dark Wave’5: ‘Dare To Love’6: ‘Shruti’7: ‘Job Description’8: ‘Difficult C Section’9: ‘Fuck This’10: ‘Just Another One of Those Days’11: ‘All I Have is Yours’12: ‘Shruti (The Golden Thread)’Elsewhere, Jarvis Cocker is set to release new memoir Good Pop, Bad Pop later this year.Set to arrive on May 26 through Vintage Publishing, Cocker describes the book as an “inventory”. It’s centred around the former Pulp frontman coming across “a jumble of objects that catalogue his story” while clearing out his loft, with the various ephemera used as a jumping off point to reflect on Cocker’s life and career.

A Scottish doctor quit the NHS for a new life in Australia following fears he was heading for a breakdown.

James Bond film, No Time To Die. However, the star admitted that his future in the role of Q was uncertain, claiming that he has “no idea” if he will return.Ben, who is also known for voicing Paddington in the much-loved family film series of the same name, appeared on Zoe’s show to talk about his upcoming television show, This Is Going To Hurt.The BBC One series will be an adaptation of Adam Kay's extremely successful book of the same name, about his experiences of being a junior doctor on an NHS labour ward.Zoe began by congratulating Ben on his latest Bond film, which turned out to be one of cinema’s greatest success stories during the pandemic. “Firstly, we must say congratulations on the huge success of No Time To Die breaking box office records all over the globe.

Ben Whishaw, the star of the BBC/AMC’s upcoming This Is Going to Hurt adaptation, was attracted to the medical drama due to it being “a love letter to the NHS.”

Despite 2021 being a year full of quarantining and social distancing, the one thing we could rely on to lift our spirits was quality television. From HBO’s Gossip Girl reboot to Amazon’s hit thriller Nine Perfect Strangers, TV lovers were never left bored. As such, expectations for 2022 are even higher, with viewers more eager than ever to be entertained from the comfort of their sofas.

A giant asteroid, more than a kilometre wide, will be soaring past the Earth tonight.

Glasgow. The English writer had just performed in front of an audience at the Theatre Royal when he realised that something wasn’t right.

The television adaptation of Adam Kay’s best-selling memoir This Is Going To Hurt has just wrapped filming and now we’ve been given a first look at Ben Whishaw in the lead role.

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Ed Sheeran is paying tribute to Britain’s National Health Service, revealing he and his family visited his hospitalized grandmother so often before she passed away that they became friends with the nurses who cared for her.

Ed Sheeran has shared on visiting his terminally ill grandmother's bedside almost daily during her final months.

and has previously told how he lost half his blood.He has now recounted the incident for a new book by author Adam Kay, in which celebrities share how the NHS has helped them.Appearing on This Morning, Kay said: “There's this chilling section where he asks this nurse, 'Am I going to die?'“And the long pause that the nurse gave before her response made his flesh hug his bones."But of course, as they do for so many of us, the NHS saved his life."Norton opened up about the incident in 2010, writing in The Telegraph that he had been attacked by a group of boys.“To add insult to injury, not only did I lose half my blood but I lost my boyfriend too: he dumped me the next day, which wasn't the most tactful piece of timing,” he wrote.In 2019,

Adam Kay thinks the government should’ve been investing into the NHS for 10 years before coronavirus struck to make it better equipped.

BBC comedy This Country, was recovering in hospital after giving birth to her first baby, Pip, by emergency caesarean section. She was feeling emotional, although that had less to do with having brought forth new life than the fact that she had gone eight days without having a poo.

Celebrities including Sir Paul McCartney, Stephen Fry, Ricky Gervais and Dame Emma Thompson have written “love letters” to the NHS which are to be published in a new charity book.

Emilia Clarke has shared her gratitude for the healthcare professionals that helped save her life after she suffered a near-fatal brain aneurysm.In a 2019 essay for The New Yorker, the Game of Thrones star revealed she had suffered two brain aneurysms in 2011, during the early seasons of the hit HBO show.Now, in a new book edited by doctor-turned-author Adam Kay, called Dear NHS: 100 Stories to Say Thank You, the 33-year-old has contributed a tribute letter she penned."The memories I will hold dearest, though, are ones that fill me with awe: of the nurses and doctors I knew by name when, in the weeks after my first brain haemorrhage, we watched the passing of time and the passing of patients in the Victor Horsley Ward at the National

Emilia Clarke shared her gratitude for the healthcare professionals that worked to save her life after her brain aneurysm scare.In a new book edited by Adam Kay called Dear NHS: 100 Stories to Say Thank You, the 33-year-old Game of Thrones alum penned a letter to the medical team who helped her through the trying time.“The memories I will hold dearest, though, are ones that fill me with awe: of the nurses and doctors I knew by name when, in the weeks after my first brain hemorrhage, we watched the passing of time and the passing of patients in the Victor Horsley Ward at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in Queen Square, London,” she writes in the book, which hits shelves on Thursday, July 9.

The fund has been supported by a host of famous comedians