BBC sketch show bid
Perrier-winners shoot pilot
Perrier-winner Laura Solon is to join three other rising comedy stars for a new TV sketch show.A pilot episode of The 3rd XI will be shot for the BBC later this month, with hopes to make it a series.
The rest of the regular cast are Katherine Parkison, who played Jen in Channel 4’s IT Crowd; stand-up Marek Larwood, who is one third of the We Are Klang sketch troupe; and former Perrier best newcomer Ben Willbond.
Solon became only the second female winner of the Perrier in 2005, a decade after Jenny Eclair, and is currently starring in her own Radio 4 comedy Talking And Not Talking
The pilot will be filmed in front of an audience Teddington Studios, South West London, on February 18.
For free tickets to the recording, visit TVrecordings.com.
Published: 1 Feb 2007
