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07/10/2025 … Robin Williams’s daughter Zelda Williams has asked people to stop sending her AI-generated videos of her father, ‘Please, just stop sending me AI…
16,000 tickets sold, boosting local business
07/10/2025 … The Aberdeen Comedy Festival has been hailed a success after 16,000 tickets were issued to 40 gigs across the Granite City.
BBC orders a maternity unit sitcom created by Jessica Knappett
07/10/2025 … The BBC has commissioned a new sitcom from Jessica Knappett, set in the maternity unit of a small rural hospital in West Yorkshire.
Triumph at city's comedy festival
07/10/2025 … Sandwell comic Ryan S Lewis has won the Breaking Talent Award at this year’s Birmingham Comedy Festival.
And the comedy gets a New Year special
07/10/2025 … The BBC has ordered a fourth series of Tom Basden’s Here We Go – plus a New Year’s Eve special to air this year.
Co-created with her pal Steve Speirs
07/10/2025 … Gavin and Stacey co-creator Ruth Jones will write and star in new BBC comedy about middle-aged relationships.
His first hosting gig since The News Quiz
07/10/2025 … Miles Jupp is to host a new satirical podcast – marking his first return to hosting comedy since leaving BBC’s News Quiz in 2019.
© ITV Comic named as part of a cast of returning 'all-stars'
07/10/2025 … Seann Walsh is returning to the I’m A Celebrity… jungle, it has been reported.
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