Zoe to be live and kicking all weekend
Congratulations to BBC2 for making me lie about having something in my eye for the second night running.
I was still reeling from Michael and Cathy’s hug by the rotary washing line in Tuesday night’s episode of Mum.
Then along came
an absolute gem of a programme which, for anyone wondering if there are any nice people left in the world, could not have come at a better time.
It was impossible not to well up at double stroke survivor Dan making it through his wedding day speech thanks to help from a group of ZOE Ball has landed a big new music and chat show on weekends for ITV.
Bosses have handed her a contract for 46 hourlong episodes on Saturday and Sunday mornings, thought to be starting next month.
The programme comes 20 years after Zoe, 47, fronted BBC Saturday morning kids’ show Live & Kicking with Jamie
Theakston. She said yesterday: “I am superexcited to return to weekend morning television with a glorious mix of all the things I love.”
Zoe Ball on
Saturday and Zoe
Ball on Sunday will feature live music from “established and breakthrough artists”.
There will be celebrity guests and reviews of the latest films, books and comedy.
It is being made by Cactus TV who do Saturday Kitchen so the recipe should make it a success. Fingers crossed Zoe has a ball with this one cos she’s locked into nearly half a year’s worth of weekends doing it now. Stars Zoe and Jamie experts from all over the world. The premise of the show sounds bizarre but it works: “Imagine if during the toughest week of your life you could have the support of wise strangers in your ear.” The BBC quaintly called the strangers “sages” – and these sages really knew their onions.
In Dan’s case, experts counselling him via a secret earpiece included a couple of retired New York cops who helped him with his speech. There was also a life coach from Norway who advised him on nutrition and taught him how to “let go of all the tension in your pelvic area”.
Yeah, I thought you saved that one for the wedding night as well. An edition of BBC quiz show QI will be performed on stage at the Latitude festival this summer.
The programme’s stars Sandi Toksvig and Alan Davies will appear in a “unique all-bells-and-klaxons” instalment. A panel will be drawn from the celebs at the arts festival in Henham Park, Suffolk, between July 12 and 15.
peak audience for The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up to Cancer, despite Jamie Laing’s worst cake ever