They are also set to be joined by cast members from shows including Sherlock and Inspector Lynley. New programmes being unveiled at the event include Attenborough’s Life Stories and Brazil with Michael Palin. BBC Worldwide is the commercial arm of the...

I fear IKEA. Not only do they expect you to build the stuff, but they also expect you to collect it from the warehouse yourself. The BBC wouldn't even risk sending Michael Palin on one of his mamouth treks in an IKEA store for fear of losing him! With...

BBC Worldwide Showcase is on pace to open its doors to more than 640 international TV buyers, alongside top-line talent, marking its biggest-ever event, which is taking place in Liverpool from February 26 to 29. Sir Tom Stoppard, Hugh Bonneville, Emilia...

School (their motto: “Only in true misery can you find true contentment”) which featured in the first episode of Palin and Jones’s post Python comedy classic, they’re asking for members of the public (you) to help set a Guinness World Record for the...

The stunt next month has been engineered to mark the DVD release of the cult Seventies comedy on DVD, and mimics an incident from the pilot episode, Tomkinson’s Schooldays. In that episode, Palin – playing a pupil at the bleak Graybridge boarding...

American humor and comedy would never be the same, thank goodness. For the uninitiated, Monty Python humor, and for that matter, the humor of the six comedians, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Graham Chapman and Terry Gilliam, was...