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© Colin Smith / West Horsley Place/CC BY-SA 2.0 'Button Hall' opens up for fans to stay overnight
13/07/2026 … Ghosts fans can now have a sleepover in the fictional haunted house where the BBC comedy is set.
© Matt Crockett Before she was shamed over her Epstein links
12/07/2026 … Alan Carr was reportedly planning a travelogue TV show wit Sarah Ferguson before the full extent of her links to Jeffrey Epstein were made public.
© Prime Video The best of the week's comedy on TV, radio and streaming
12/07/2026 … Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week.
12/07/2026 … The best of the week’s live comedy, picked from the thousands of events Chortle currently has listed.
Circle of Life composer had sued Learnmore Jonasi
11/07/2026 … A judge has officially thrown out a $27million (£20million) lawsuit brought against a comedian for mocking the Circle Of Life song from The Lion King.
© BBC Studios 'The best series yet' says creator Tom Basden
10/07/2026 … Filming has got under way for the fourth series of BBC family sitcom Here We Go.
© Ben Whitley/PA Images/Alamy Police apologise for causing him 'considerable distress'
09/07/2026 … Graham Linehan has received a £25,000 settlement over his arrest for anti-trans tweets.
© Channel 4 Alex Horne to challenge families in Your Time Starts Now
09/07/2026 … Channel 4 has confirmed a new Taskmaster spin-off, Your Time Starts Now, devised and hosted by Alex Horne.
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