Comcast-owned Sky has commissioned Last Week Tonight With John Oliver producer Avalon to make a quick-turnaround coronavirus show hosted by British comedian Russell Howard.
Howard usually fronts Sky One show The Russell Howard Hour and had been on his third world tour before it was interrupted by the Covid-19 outbreak. During his time in lockdown, he will now present Russell Howard’s Home Time from his childhood bedroom.
Howard will offer his perspective on world events, speak to famous people and spotlight stories of unsung heroes. The show will air on Sky One on Tuesdays and Thursdays, starting April 9 at 10.30 Pm, before being uploaded to Howard’s YouTube channel.
Howard usually fronts Sky One show The Russell Howard Hour and had been on his third world tour before it was interrupted by the Covid-19 outbreak. During his time in lockdown, he will now present Russell Howard’s Home Time from his childhood bedroom.
Howard will offer his perspective on world events, speak to famous people and spotlight stories of unsung heroes. The show will air on Sky One on Tuesdays and Thursdays, starting April 9 at 10.30 Pm, before being uploaded to Howard’s YouTube channel.
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Alex Bogusky, advertising Dadaist, postmodern media manipulator, pop-culture Houdini, daddy of 21st-century advertising, and now a seeker of meaning on the dirt path of life, invites me and his monk into the FearLess Cottage. Inside the quaint cherry-brick-and-wood house, so placidly typical of Bogusky's adopted hometown of Boulder, Colorado, are the props of an adman attempting rehab. There are the wrinkled tubes of acrylic paint lying like fallen soldiers next to a canvas and easel, an acoustic guitar alongside a cowhide chair, and a wood-framed mirror from Bogusky's former Crispin Porter + Bogusky client Russ Klein,...
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