Category: TV Entertainment; Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ ONE
Date: 17.07.2006
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Omid Djalili, one of Britain's best known contemporary comic performers and multi award-winning stand-up, is to write and appear in his own Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ
ONE show.
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The Omid Djalili Show will feature
sketches and stand-up in a uniquely adult look at contemporary issues from
identity and multi-culturalism to death, sex and religion.
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Over the past ten years, the British-Iranian comedian has not only completed
UK and US sell-out tours but has also appeared in Hollywood blockbusters
including Gladiator, The Mummy, Spy Game and recently as Heath Ledger's
assistant, Lupo, in Disney's Casanova.
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In the USA Omid is known for his
work as Whoopi Goldberg's co-star Nasim in the NBC series Whoopi and
also for his HBO stand-up comedy special which is so popular it
still runs every month on HBO.
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He is currently the voice of Tiger
in the Dreamworks animation film Over The Hedge and next year
will appear in Pirates of the Caribbean III.
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His UK TV work includes playing the legendary Spiro in Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ ONE's My
Family and Other Animals; his critically-acclaimed performance
on Jack Dee Live at The Apollo; and a guest role in the up-coming comedy Lead
Balloon on Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ FOUR.
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Omid also appears in an episode of Rob
Brydon's Annually Retentive, currently on Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ
THREE.
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Omid said: "All I've ever wanted to do is to bring world peace through stand
up comedy ... and now that I've done that, I can concentrate on my new Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ ONE
comedy series. I shall invoke the spirit of Dave Allen."
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Peter Fincham, Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ ONE Controller, said: "Omid is a very special talent and will
bring something very different to Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ ONE. He's definitely the best British-Iranian
comic around. The moment I saw his pilot I wanted to go ahead to series. I think
audiences will love him."
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The Omid Djalili Show is the first series to be given the green light by Peter Fincham and Lucy
Lumsden, Controller, Comedy Commissioning, from the raft of comedy pilots announced earlier this year.
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Executive Producer is the Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ's Creative Head of Comedy Talent, Kenton
Allen, and the producer is Alex Walsh-Taylor. The Omid Djalili Show is a Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ
Comedy Production.
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