© BBC/Passion Docs/Trevor Leighton Caroline Aherne biopic in the works
'Sad, funny and very emotional’ script has been written
22/09/2025 … Work is under way on a film about the life of Caroline Aherne.
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Mon 22 September 2025
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New tours for Russell Howard, Mo Gilligan...
...Laura Smyth, Celya AB and Lorna Rose Treen
22/09/2025 … Russell Howard, Mo Gilligan, Laura Smyth, Celya AB and Lorna Rose Treen have all announced tours today.
How Are You? It's Alan (Partridge)
22/09/2025 … Here’s the first trailer for Alan Partridge’s new BBC series How Are You? It's Alan (Partridge).
© Deep AI Dying for clicks
How newspapers keep recycling 'comedian dies penniless' stories
22/09/2025 … Have you heard the one about the BBC comedian who died penniless? If you read certain newspapers’ websites you can’t have avoided the story.
Romesh Ranganathan launches a new podcast
22/09/2025 … Romesh Ranganathan has today launched a twice-weekly video podcast with his mum, Shanthi.
Cheese and Coke
Comics try the concoction on Iain Stirling’s Roast the Internet
22/09/2025 … Asim Chaudhry, Maisie Adam and Kerry Godliman try out the online craze of putting cheese in Coke on Iain Stirling’s Roast the Internet tonight.
© Jiksaw Tom Allen launches garden-based podcast
Kerry Godliman the first guest on Pottering
22/09/2025 … Tom Allen is launching a new podcast and YouTube series inviting comedy guests into his beloved garden.
Anne Edmonds and Kitty Flanagan unite for new comedy
Set in an ailing Australian theatre
22/09/2025 … Comedians Anne Edmonds and Kitty Flanagan are to star in a new Australian sitcom about a theatre company on the brink of bankruptcy.