The Catherine Tate Show


11:15 pm - 11:55 pm, Sunday, May 3 on U&W (25)

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Season 3, Episode 3

Lauren receives a proposal, and Bernie's sisters make an appearance, while Derek Faye meets Bonnie Langford, guest starring as herself


subtitles 16x9 audio-description
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Catherine Tate (Actor) .. Various characters

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Bonnie Langford (Guest)
Born: July 22, 1964 in Hampton Court, Surrey
Best Known For: Her former child prodigy status and her head-banging antics on Dancing on Ice.
Early-life: Born Bonita Melody Lysette Langford on July 22, 1964, in Hampton Court, Surrey. She is the youngest of three girls. She had singing and dancing lessons from an early age. At the age of six she won TV talent show Opportunity Knocks, which enabled her to gain an Equity card and work professionally. Training at the Arts Educational and Italia Conti stage schools in London led to a successful child actor's career.
Career: Langford appeared in her first movie, Bugsy Malone, when she was 12. Other early projects include theatre productions and TV shows, including variety specials and Just William. At 17, Langford landed the role of Rumpleteaser in the original cast of Cats. Since then, she has put her singing and dancing skills to good use in Peter Pan: The Musical, The Pirates of Penzance, and TV's Saturday Starship and The Hot Shoe Show. She played Mel, an assistant to both the sixth and seventh Doctor Whos, between 1986 and 1987. She bounced back onto TV screens in 2006 when she was a contestant on Dancing on Ice. She made it through to the final and she also toured with Torvill and Dean's Dancing on Ice: The Tour in 2007. Since then, she has returned to the West End, playing Roxie Hart in long-running musical Chicago, and toured with Guys and Dolls. She has also appeared in Chicago in Canada and on Broadway. In early 2014, she participated with fellow former contestants in the final series of Dancing on Ice.
Quote: 'I'm far too normal for this industry, I think.'
Trivia: Langford is a regular on the panto circuit.
Catherine Tate (Actor) .. Various characters
Born: May 12, 1968 in London
Best Known For: The Catherine Tate Show and Doctor Who.
Early-life: Born Catherine Ford on May 12, 1968, in London, she was raised in the distinctive and iconic Bloomsbury Centre by her florist mother Josephine. Catherine has revealed that she suffered from obsessive-compulsive disorder as a child. She attended Notre Dame High School for Girls, then the Sylvia Young Theatre School and later graduated from the Central School of Speech and Drama and Royal National Theatre. She also spent a year with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Career: Tate's TV career began with small parts in serial dramas Casualty and The Bill, while her comedy talent was nurtured on The Harry Hill Show, Big Train, That Peter Kay Thing and Wild West, a series she made while pregnant. As well as her critically acclaimed comedy series The Catherine Tate Show, she has also appeared in Bleak House, on the West End stage and in the US version of The Office. The comedienne acquired a new set of fans when she became Doctor Who assistant Donna Noble; she reunited with co-star David Tennant in Much Ado About Nothing in London's West End during the summer of 2011.
Quote: Of her Doctor Who appearance, she joked: 'I was holding out for a summer season at Wigan rep but as a summer job this'll do.'
Trivia: Tate is the patron of the Laura Crane Youth Cancer Trust.
Aschlin Ditta (Writer)
Jonathan Harvey (Writer)
Gordon Anderson (Director)
Geoffrey Perkins (Producer)