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The BBC Radio Times features The Fringe podcast

Wednesday, August 29th, 2007

This week’s issue of The BBC’s Radio Times (UK TV and Radio listings magazine) lists The Edinburgh Fringe Podcast as one of its three podcst choices this week. With a circulation of over one million readers in the UK, that’s a lot of eyes seeing the podcast…
Even if you were there, you can;t have seen […]

Edinburgh Fringe Show is Top Fringe Podcast on iTunes

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

It might still be early days (ie about half way through week one), but the Edinburgh Fringe Podcast is the top ranked Edinburgh Fringe Podcast in iTunes. Currently sitting at number 24, I’m going to be very interested to see how high it climbs. For those of you looking for a one click subscription in […]

The Best Edinburgh Fringe Podcast (Says The Times) Is Under Way

Friday, August 3rd, 2007

Yes, as well as the first little prologue going up on The Podcast Network’s Edinburgh Fringe Show’s website (and RSS Feed) the buzz is building in other places as well. The Fringe Podcast comes but once a year, but covering an Arts Festival with over 250 venues (maybe the best part of 300 stages), for […]

The Podcast Now Available on the Official Fringe Website

Tuesday, August 8th, 2006

Visitors to http://www.edfringe.com/, the official Fringe website, will hopefully have discovered their brand new podcast section, where naturally The Podcast Netowrk’s podcast is featured. Now, if I can get a little attribution and a proper link back to this site I’ll be over the moon!

Political Correctness Gone Mad

Tuesday, July 11th, 2006

Thanks to Scotlan’s ban on smoking indoors in a public place, a number of Fringe shows and performers are being “reminded” by Edinburgh City Council that they’ll have to not smoke on stage, even if artistically it’s pretty key to the performance.
Which means one of my favourite shows last year “Bill Hicks: Slight Return” (and […]

Perrier Nominations

Thursday, August 25th, 2005

Suppose I’d better post them…

The shortlist for the Perrier Comedy Award 2005
Chris Addison - ‘Atomicity’
Dutch Elm Conservatoire ‘Conspiracy’
Jeremy Lion - ‘What’s The Time, Mr Lion’
Jason Manford - ‘Urban Legend’
Laura Solon - ‘Kopfrapers Syndrome: One Man and His Incredible Mind’
The nominations for Perrier Best Newcomer
Charlie Pickering ‘Betterman’
Mark Watson ‘50 Years Before Death’
Rhod Gilbert’s 1984
Tim Minchin ‘Darkside’
Toulson […]

Six Degrees Of Punchline Seperation

Sunday, August 21st, 2005

Bruce Dessau goes from Demetri Martin, to Natalie Haynes, to Tim Vine, then Joanna Neary, finishing at a forthcoming documentary on Taxidermy called Stuff The World, which goes out on BBC2 this Wednesday. Bruce is probably doing a bit too much I think…

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Top Ticket Seller:

Sunday, August 21st, 2005

12,000 tickets sold and counting makes Omid Djalili the top ticket seller so far at this years Fringe(reports The Scotsman). Given that he’s also got the biggest poster budget, and the largest poster in Edinburgh, perhpas that’s not surprising. What I’d be more interested in seeing is how much net profit he makes, as opposed […]

Fringe Podcast in the Top 30 Podcasts at iTunes

Thursday, August 18th, 2005

Says it all really… the Edinburgh Fringe Podcast is the 28th most popular podcast in Apple’s flagship iTunes Top 100 UK Podcasts list. So thank you to all of you who are listening to the podcast, the performers who are getting involved, and everyone giving me feedback. There’s still a week of the Fringe to […]

Bruce Isn’t Comparing Anything

Wednesday, August 17th, 2005

More from londonder in Edinburgh Bruce Dessau, with his look both at Mark Watson’s endurance gig of 2005 minutes, and the judging of “So You Think You’re Funny’s” semi-final that he took part in. Read his blog post here.