Dave gets political with new show, Unspun with Matt Forde

A host who watches Prime Ministers Questions like its Match of the Day, Matt Forde, the most exciting voice in political comedy, brings Unspun With Matt Forde to Dave from Wednesday 14th September at 10pm.

Recorded the day before it airs, Unspun With Matt Forde is a brand new show that features up-to-the minute reactions to the chaos gripping the British political system, interviews with leading politicians and political figures and special reports from guest comedians including Andy Zaltzman, Simon Evans, Al Green, Ayesha Hazarika and Francesco De Carlo. Matt will also be joined each week by his house band, MP4, the worlds only parliamentary rock group whose members are all serving, or former politicians.

In a time where comedy feels like the only way to make sense of our bizarre political landscape, Matt will expertly dismantle political nonsense and celebrate the best and worst coming out of Westminster.

A former advisor to the Labour Party, Matt Forde has been acknowledged as the UKs leading political comic. Matt has appeared on The Royal Variety Performance (ITV), Have I Got News For You (BBC One), Mock The Week (BBC Two), Rory Bremners Coalition Report and Rory Bremners Election Report (BBC Two), 8 Out Of 10 Cats (Channel 4), Question Time, This Week (both BBC One), Newsnight and Daily Politics (both BBC Two). He also hosts a weekly show on talkSPORT with fellow comic Jon Richardson.

Matt Fordes London show, The Political Party, has been a sell-out during its monthly residency at Westminsters St James Theatre. Matt has brought Parliament to life with his stand-up and debate with some of the Governments most notorious figures, including Tony Blair, Alastair Campbell, Michael Portillo, Nigel Farage, Neil Kinnock, Jacob Rees-Mogg John Prescott, Jack Straw, Dame Tessa Jowell, George Galloway, Jim Murphy and Charles Clarke. The show is also released as a podcast which has been downloaded over 500,000 times, hit the top spot of the iTunes comedy chart, was picked as the Daily Telegraphs podcast of the week, picked as the Times podcast of the week and was nominated for the Internet Award in the 2015 Chortle Awards. Previous podcasts are available to download here: http://apple.co/1TSmgHZ.

Matt performed his brand new stand up show Its My Political Party (And Ill Cry If I Want To) to critical acclaim at the 2016 Edinburgh Festival Fringe and sold out his entire month-long run for the third consecutive year.

MP4 are: Kevin Brennan MP (guitar and vocals), former MP Ian Cawsey (bass guitar and vocals), The Rt Hon Sir Greg Knight MP (drums and percussion) and Pete Wishart MP (keyboards and vocals).

Unspun With Matt Forde, a six part series, will start on Wednesday 14th September at 10pm on Dave. Notes to Editors: For more information and tickets to the records, please contact: Gem Pinkney, Publicity Manager, UKTV

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Daves had a haircut and shave in recent years as it grows from awkward teenager to fully-fledged commissioner of new and original shows. And its not just comedy these days but entertainment and even some knock-out live sport. Hit UKTV Original commissions include Taskmaster, Dave Gorman Modern Life is Goodish, Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled and Crackanory, all laden with the biggest names in British comedy. Dave enjoyed critical success with two series of Hoff the Record, a mockumentary ensemble comedy led by the living legend David Hasselhoff.

As well as home-grown delights Dave also goes stateside, cherry-picking cult US Shows including the sharp-witted and sharp-suited Suits and much-loved Parks and Recreation along with Emmy-nominated The Last Man on Earth. This all contributed to Daves award win at the 2016 Broadcast Digital Awards for Best Entertainment Channel.

Dave is the UKs most watched non-PSB channel broadcasting to over 27 million people per month, and viewers continue to enjoy the ludicrously addictive American Pickers and UK remake of Storage Hunters. The channel continues to grow its original commissioning slate with political show Unspun With Matt Forde, Red Dwarf XI, Dara O Briains Go8Bit, fantasy comedy Zapped! and Celebrity Storage Hunters airing later this year.

Avalon Television Avalon Television is a completely independently owned production house operating out of New York, Los Angeles and London. Avalon Television are currently in production with: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO),Not Going Out (BBC One), Catastrophe (Channel 4), Russell Howards Stand Up Central (Comedy Central UK), Russell Howards Travelogue (w/t Comedy Central UK), Man Down (Channel 4), Adam DeVines House Party (Comedy Central USA), Unspun With Matt Forde (Dave) and Workaholics (Comedy Central USA).

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