{"id":20646,"date":"2022-08-22T13:43:22","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T11:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1696695"},"modified":"2022-08-22T14:07:13","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T12:07:13","slug":"satirical-prince-andrew-musical-to-air-on-channel-4","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/satirical-prince-andrew-musical-to-air-on-channel-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Satirical Prince Andrew musical to air on Channel 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>

By Lauren Morris\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Monday, 22 August 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

\n\n

Channel 4 is celebrating its 40th birthday by airing a musical about Prince Andrew, forming a slate of programming that salutes its \u201cradical, irreverent and iconoclastic roots\u201d.<\/p>\n

Comedian Kieran Hodgson \u2013 who rose to fame after his Line of Duty impressions went viral<\/a> \u2013 has written Prince Andrew: The Musical, which explores the \u201ckey events, relationships and controversies of Andrew\u2019s life\u201d, including his interview with Newsnight\u2019s Emily Maitlis.<\/p>\n

Hodgson is set to star as Prince Andrew in the 60-minute show as part of Channel 4\u2019s Truth or Dare season of programming, leading a cast of comics in \u201ca satirical send-up of the life and times\u201d of the royal.<\/p>\n

\"""\"<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div>
The slate of 40th birthday programming will also feature a show from Jimmy Carr on cancel culture.<\/span><\/figcaption> Matt Frost\/Netflix<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

Prince Andrew stepped back from his public duties in November 2019 after being associated with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and being accused of sexual assault by Virginia Giuffre. He has consistently denied these claims and reached a settlement in principle with Giuffre earlier this year, which did not include an admission of guilt.<\/p>\n

The 40th anniversary schedule will also feature a show in which Jimmy Carr explores cancel culture, a documentary about those who struggle with their penis size, a revival of Ben Elton\u2019s Friday Night Live and a documentary about a woman who fled the Taliban and became a successful porn performer.<\/p>\n

Channel 4\u2019s programme boss, Ian Katz, said that the commissions were \u201ca collection of irreverent, thought-provoking and hugely entertaining shows that no other broadcaster would air\u201d, adding: \u201cIf we must age, we plan to do it disgracefully.\u201d<\/p>

The slate will also include Frankie Boyle: Monarchy \u2013 a 75-minute look at the British monarchy and its future by the comedian, as well as a one-off documentary about the limits of free speech titled What is a Woman?<\/p>\n

Channel 4 was founded as a free-to-air public service back in 1982, however Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries announced plans for privatisation of the broadcaster<\/a> earlier in the year \u2013 with 63 per cent of RadioTimes.com<\/a> readers saying that they didn\u2019t fully understand the implications of this move<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n

Want something else to watch? Check out our full\u00a0TV Guide<\/a>\u00a0or visit our\u00a0Entertainment<\/a>\u00a0hub for the latest news.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The latest issue of Radio Times magazine is on sale now \u2013\u00a0subscribe now<\/a>\u00a0and get the next 12 issues for only \u00a31. For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to the\u00a0Radio Times podcast<\/a> with Jane Garvey.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/body><\/html>\n

","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Lauren Morris Published: Monday, 22 August 2022 at 12:00 am Channel 4 is celebrating its 40th birthday by airing a musical about Prince Andrew, forming a slate of programming that salutes its \u201cradical, irreverent and iconoclastic roots\u201d. Comedian Kieran Hodgson \u2013 who rose to fame after his Line of Duty impressions went viral \u2013 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":20647,"template":"","categories":[5],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/08\/satirical-prince-andrew-musical-to-air-on-channel-4-scaled.jpg",2560,1706,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/08\/satirical-prince-andrew-musical-to-air-on-channel-4-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/08\/satirical-prince-andrew-musical-to-air-on-channel-4-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/08\/satirical-prince-andrew-musical-to-air-on-channel-4-768x512.jpg",768,512,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/08\/satirical-prince-andrew-musical-to-air-on-channel-4-1024x683.jpg",800,534,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/08\/satirical-prince-andrew-musical-to-air-on-channel-4-1536x1024.jpg",1536,1024,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/08\/satirical-prince-andrew-musical-to-air-on-channel-4-2048x1365.jpg",2048,1365,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Lauren Morris Published: Monday, 22 August 2022 at 12:00 am Channel 4 is celebrating its 40th birthday by airing a musical about Prince Andrew, forming a slate of programming that salutes its \u201cradical, irreverent and iconoclastic roots\u201d. Comedian Kieran Hodgson \u2013 who rose to fame after his Line of Duty impressions went viral \u2013…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/20646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}