After the former Grange Hill star found a new audience with Star Stories, he is now trying his luck with The Kevin Bishop Show.

"I'm really excited about it, but really terrified at the same time because it's such an enormous thing," he said. "It's called The Kevin Bishop Show as well, so it seems like I'm putting all my eggs in one basket. If it goes wrong, that's me finished!"

Kevin added: "People who are close to me don't seem to realise the enormity of it, they just say 'Isn't it great, you've got your own show!'. They're right, it is great, but if it's rubbish, I'm rubbish."

Fortunately, as the transmission draws nearer, Kevin is more confident about the show than he was while writing it.

"Now I've seen it finished, I'm much better than I was, but in the early creation part of the show, I was terrified.

"I felt like all the weight was on my shoulders, so it had to be how I wanted it to be.

"I was a nightmare when we were writing, but when we got to filming, I knew there was nothing I could do about it - it was going to be filmed and that was that, I had to let it go."

The Kevin Bishop Show starts on Friday July 25 on Channel 4.



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