Front Row

With Mark Lawson. Comedians Armstrong and Miller discuss putting their TV characters on stage and in a book. The US TV drama The Event has an online blog and twitter feed. Lizo Mzimba reviews this political thriller as it begins screening on Channel 4. A new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery aims to make Thomas Lawrence as well known as Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough. Richard Cork reviews. And as she opens a play at the Royal Court (Tribes) and begins rehearsals for another (Tiger Country) Nina Raine talks to Mark Lawson. Producer Jack Soper.