Aisling Bea and Sharon Horgan to play sisters in new comedy
Happy revolves around anxiety and depression
20/04/2018 … Aisling Bea and Sharon Horgan are to play sisters in a dark new sitcom for Channel 4, Chortle can reveal.
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Fri 20 April 2018
Joel Dommett: I'm returning to the jungle
Comic will host I'm A Celeb... spin-off for a second year
20/04/2018 … Joel Dommett will be hosting the I’m A Celebrity spin-off show Extra Camp for a second year.
Ricky Gervais announces his first SuperNature gigs
But warns the works in progress will be a 'shambles'
20/04/2018 … Ricky Gervais has announced his first ever 'work in progress' shows for his next stand-up special SuperNature.
Lost Voice Guy to appear on Britain's Got Talent
20/04/2018 … Lost Voice Guy Lee Ridley is to appear on Britain's Got Talent tomorrow night.
© BBC/Sophie Mutevelian Third series for This Country
20/04/2018 … BBC Three has commissioned a third series of rural comedy This Country as well as a one-off special.
Thu 19 April 2018
John Oliver scoops a Peabody
As does Hasan Minhaj, SNL and more...
19/04/2018 … John Oliver, Hasan Minhaj’s stand-up special, and Amazon series The Marvelous Mrs Maisel, about a pioneering female comedian of the 1950s, have all won Peabody…
© BBC/Goodnight Vienna Productions When is Car Share coming back?
Peter Kay reveals broadcast dates of final two episodes
19/04/2018 … Peter Kay has confirmed the air dates for the final two episodes of his sitcom Car Share.
E4 buys US comedy evoking the 80s fitness craze
19/04/2018 … E4 has bought the rights to US sitcom Let’s Get Physical, whose cast features Dr Quinn Medicine Woman star Jane Seymour.