Mitchell: pizza lover

the premise was that each week, three celebrities were sent away to an isolated house with no contact with the outside world, after which they’d be presented with various news stories from the week and had to guess which were real and which were fake.

Upstart Crow Series 3 guest stars announced

The Ben Elton-penned period sitcom about the life of struggling Elizabethan playwright William Shakespeare is filming seven new episodes in total.

Notably, Series 3 sees Elton reunited with fellow Young Ones alumni, Adrian Edmondson and Nigel Planer.

In a thematic press release, the BBC say: “Welcome my lords, ladies and groundlings to the third series of Ben Elton’s televisual comedie which starreth David Mitchell in a tale based on the life of William Shakespeare, genius, family man and highly-strung baldy-boots as he struggleth to be all at once a father, a husband, a commuter and the greatest literary genius of all time.”

“Especial” guest appearances in the series include Kenneth Branagh as a mysterious stranger and Lily Cole as Ephie, both in the Christmas special “which aireth next December”.