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Last year, Eddie performed live for first Secret Stand-Up in Los Angeles benefitting “Breast Cancer Campaign”.

[from Broadcast.co.uk]

CBBC has ordered a flagship Christmas family drama starring Eddie Izzard as a mysterious man with the ability to “recover the lost”.

LA-based feature film specialist Impact Film & Television will make 90-minute The Lost Christmas, in which Izzard plays the “strange, enigmatic” Anthony.

He wakes up in a Manchester street on Christmas Eve not knowing where he is or what he is there to do, and the drama follows him for 24 hours as he “transforms the lives of five ordinary people whose lives have been shattered by decisions of their past”.

The characters he helps include a young boy who lost his parents in a car crash, a couple who lost their child, and a man, played by Jason Flemyng, who has lost the book he used to read to his daughter.

John Hay, who wrote the 90-minute Christmas drama with Dave Logar, will also direct through Impact.

Hay told Broadcast: “Eddie and I always wanted to do something that happens in a single day, and we both love Christmas films. It’s going to be a very emotional piece and he [Izzard] is not going to do ‘funny Eddie’. It is structured like Crash, in that a string of apparently unconnected episodes piece together at the end, and has the feelgood factor of It’s A Wonderful Life.”

He added there was a “twist around the sense of self sacrifice”, in the vein of an Oscar Wilde fairytale.

The Lost Christmas was commissioned by outgoing CBBC controller Anne Gilchrist and BBC1 controller Jay Hunt. It is lined up for TX in CBBC’s BBC1 slot in 2011 or 2012. The executive producers are Connal Orton for Impact and Sue Nott for CBBC.

Impact Film & Television’s credits include the Resident Evil films and Event Horizon.

Rage is now available for PRE-ORDER through Amazon. This title will be released on November 24, 2009.

NOTE: Some fans are already receiving the DVD so maybe they moved up the release date?

Also, you can download an iPhone/iTouch app from iTunes to watch the movie for free HERE.

Eddie will do a gig today, Sunday 16th Aug performing at the Theatre by the Lake, Keswick, at 6pm. Phone 01768774411

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This DVD was released November 3, 2009.

[from walesonline.co.uk]

ATTEMPTING 34 marathons in seven weeks would be no laughing matter for even the most seasoned of athletes.

But for a self-professed out-of-shape stand-up comic, described somewhat generously by their publicist as “not a runner”, it would certainly seem an impossible task.

Tell that to Eddie Izzard, who finally made it to Cardiff yesterday as part of his gruelling 1,100-mile run around the UK to raise money for Sport Relief.

Having set off from London last Monday, and despite having “blisters on his blisters”, the flamboyant 47-year-old funny man revealed he now intended to extend the Welsh leg of his 30-mile-a-day journey because of how much being here meant to him.

“We lived in Skewen for a couple of years when I was young and it was while we were here that mum died,” said Eddie. He was only six when he lost his midwife mother Dorothy to cancer in 1968. “So being back has been quite emotional, a bit of a head spinner, and I really wanted to be able to run past my old house while I’m here.”

His journey takes him on from Swansea, through Powys and back towards the Shropshire border.

Izzard got the idea for the colossal challenge from watching a programme on Kalahari bushmen. “They hunt their prey for up to three days straight until the poor creature’s exhausted and can’t go any further.

“And that’s how we all did things thousands of years ago, not sitting behind computers, eating ice lollies, playing computer games and watching Die Hard as we tend to do these days. That’s not what these bodies of ours were built for, surely?” he added.