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5 March 2007
Robert Newman makes TV comeback with BBC4 political satire
History in Reverse set to make Newman the next Mark Thomas
Comedy Goth turned comic activist Robert Newman is set for a long-awaited return to our screens this autumn with a new show on BBC4.
The Beeb’s most earnest channel has commissioned a programme based on Newman’s live show, History in Reverse, and will start recording this summer.
Newman has grown up in the last decade and a half. Gone are the studenty, rock’n’roll-saturated sketches of The Mary Whitehouse Experience. Instead we have topical, grown-up and edgy polemic – not unlike a certain Mark Thomas, in fact.
History in Reverse covers all the greats: the environment, the world’s over-reliance on oil and the end of Iranian democracy. It’s not hard to see why the show will be appearing on BBC4, rather than its scatologically inclined and sitcom-dominated digital sibling, BBC3.
For those who can’t wait until then (and it has been a long wait) check out his website for free downloads (see left).
