Getting back to work quickly after suffering a miscarriage with Chemical Brothers’ Ed Simons’ baby, Lily Allen shot the pilot for her new BBC3 chat show this week, which is scheduled to debut later this year. The British station’s website reveals that Blur’s Alex James will lend his myriad charms to the premiere. Always good for a laugh, Blur’s resident dandy louche has kept busy farming cheese and being singled out, unjustifiably, as one of the BBC’s most annoying people of 2007.