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Who’s who in Mackenzie Crook’s new take on the scarecrow of Scatterbrook, featuring Paul Kaye and Steve Pemberton.

Life of Brian film poster John Cleese, 81, tweeted on Sunday: “Today I finished the first draft of the script for the stage version of Life of Brian. Not a musical, as songs slow the pace down too much. Depending on Covid, we might be able to do it in the second half of next year.” He concluded: “No Pythons in the cast. We’ve had enough die already.” Talk of a stage version of Life of Brian, probably one of the 10 funniest movies of all times, began in 2014, after the initial Broadway remake of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, now Spamalot, made more than $175 million.

The arts and culture stars who died in 2020 By BBC Culture Editors30th December 2020 BBC Culture editors pay tribute to the luminaries of the arts and culture world who we sadly lost this year. Elizabeth Wurtzel (Credit: Getty Images) January to March On 7 January, Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of infamous 1994 memoir Prozac Nation, died aged 52. Her "groundbreakingly candid" book covered her parents' divorce, depression, self-harm and sex – and deeply divided critics at the time, while inspiring a generation of female writers and helping to destigmatise the public discussion of mental illness...

Best of 2020: Comedy by Veronica LeeWednesday, 30 December 2020 The third series of the Dear Joan & Jericha (Vicki Pepperdine, left, and Julia Davis) podcast was released this year What a year that was. Live performance was stopped dead in its tracks for most of 2020, and comedy – as viscerally live as you can get in dark and sweaty enclosed spaces above pubs or in club basements – was particularly hard hit. Never again, I suspect, will comedy fans complain about the privations of broom-cupboard venues at the Edinburgh Fringe. What a year that was. Live performance was stopped dead in i...