There’s a brilliant moment in the BBC comedy Upstart Crow when Shakespeare – played by David Mitchell – defends his work as a comic writer by saying, ‘If you do your research my stuff is actually ...

David Mitchell is to play William Shakespeare in a new BBC Two sitcom. A non-broadcast episode of the comedy project will be filmed in front of a live studio audience on April 27 at The London Studios ...

‘A hit, a hit, an implausible hit!’ (Independent) Ben Elton’s five-star Olivier award-nominated stage production of the critically acclaimed and much adored BBC sitcom UPSTART CROW, returns to the ...