Sheridan Smith, Dara O Briain and Mel Giedroyc settle into the Crackanory chair

15/06/2017

6 January 2017 Award-winning hit Crackanory returns to Dave on Monday 30th January at 10pm, with just one narrator per episode and some of Britians best comedy actors bringing each story to life. The new series, in partnership with Audible, will welcome Sheridan Smith, Dara O Briain, Doc Brown, Anna Friel, Mackenzie Crook, Miriam Margolyes, Bob Mortimer and Mel Giedroyc into the famous Crackanory chair.

To celebrate the brand new series, Doc Brown will host a live reading of his story Devils Haircut at the Central London location on Sunday 29th January at 12pm. For more information on how to get tickets, please visit Dave.

Crackanory, produced by Tiger Aspect Productions (Drunk History, Murder in Successville), has seen success in recent years on Dave with the likes of Back to the Future star Christopher Lloyd, Taskmaster giant Greg Davies, Star Wars legend Carrie Fisher and northern funny woman Sarah Millican each taking their turn to sit in the famous chair. Series two also featured the much-missed comedy legend Rik Mayall in his final television appearance, reciting The Weatherman.

The critically-acclaimed show will return to Dave from Monday to Thursday at 10pm across two weeks, with eight new and original stories. Crackanory has won a coveted Broadcasting Press Guild Award and been nominated at the Monte Carlo Television Festival, Broadcast Awards and Broadcast Digital Awards.

Live action features throughout the series and stars previous Crackanory actors Steve Oram, Alex Kirk, Rebecca Humphries and Matthew Steer plus brilliant appearances from Ken Collard, Jamie Demetriou, Ritu Ayra and Nicholas Burns. The dark and twisted original stories spawn from some of Britains best comedy writers including Kevin Eldon, Tony Way, Nico Tatarowicz, Arnold Widdowson, Katherine Jakeways, Sarah Morgan and Toby Davies.

Crackanory, in partnership with Audible, airs for two weeks across Monday to Thursday at 10pm from Monday 30th January

Catch up on all three series on UKTV Play and preview episode one of series four, starring Dara OBriain, from Monday 23rd January.

For tickets to the Doc Brown live storytelling event on Sunday 29th January please contact Gem Pinkney or Jessica Molyneux

Press pack interviews with all the narrators can be downloaded here

For more information please contact Gem Pinkney or Iain McCallum, Head of Press and PR, Tiger Aspect - IainMccallum@tigeraspect.co.uk

What the press said... This anti-Jackanory format keeps getting better, attracting ever more famous readers and giving a platform to sketch writers and comedians who deal in short form gags. The Sunday Times Culture...delectably creepy tales. Radio Times

Crackanory is a simple idea executed with skill and off-the-wall-imagination..... The stories which are completely mesmerising, are illustrated with actors and animations. The Times

Crackanory added deliciously dark twists into its tales for grownups. Metro

About Dave Sky 111/246, Virgin 128/194, Freeview 12, BT & TalkTalk 12

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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 the International Emmy award-winning 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.

About UKTV UKTV is the biggest multichannel broadcaster in the UK. The award-winning independent has eleven imaginative brands - UKTV Play, Dave, W, Gold, Alibi, Yesterday, Drama, Really, Home, Eden and Good Food. These include the two most popular non-PSB channels in the UK and account for 9.31% of the British commercial TV market. The companys most recent financial results showed record-breaking year-end revenue of �319m and EBITDA of �82m. It invested �148m in programming and related launches last year, and is becoming an increasingly significant investor in UK creativity.

UKTV has a truly innovative model, curating brand-defining commissions, high-profile acquisitions and the very best of BBC, alongside programmes originally shown on ITV and Channel 4. The network embraces technology to deliver inspired channels to audiences through Freeview, Sky, Virgin Media, BT, TalkTalk, YouView, Freesat, Amazon Fire and UKTV Play, and distributes its highly valued original programmes to 200 territories.

Now celebrating its 23rd year at the forefront of digital television, UKTV - an independent commercial joint venture between BBC Worldwide and Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc. (SNI) - is proud to be the only British television broadcaster in The Sunday Times top 100 companies list.

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