Frank Skinner To Host New Arts Quiz In Chiswick

Will trial his new show at The Tabard Theatre

Comedian Frank Skinner, the current host of Room 101, has devised a new arts quiz show which will be screened by BBC. The show, But Is It Art? will have its first 'try out' in the Tabard Theatre next Tuesday, 5 April and there are free tickets available.

But Is It Art? was devised by the veteran comic and will see him quiz comics and well-known faces from the arts on all facets of literature, music, the visual arts and more.

Skinner, who hosts both Landscape Artist and Portrait Artist of The Year for Sky Arts with Joan Bakewell, has long been a champion of the so-called 'high arts'.

Despite his laddish image, he holds an MA in English Literature and is an opera buff. As well as being a stand-up comedian, he has been a radio host, a singer, and television presenter.

The new show was commissioned by Charlotte Moore, the BBC's controller of TV channels and iPlayer. It is produced by Luke Shiach, whose credits include Play To The Whistle and A League Of Their Own, and is executive produced by Jon Thoday for Avalon.

Doors open at 6.45pm.

April 1, 2016