French and Saunders in the Repair Shop
18/03/2022 … Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders have popped into the Repair Shop 'where much-loved treasures are brought back to life', The duo will reprise their characters…
Fri 18 March 2022
Bill Bailey: Why the BBC rejected my Eurovision song
An ‘eco-anthem’ inspired by Dad's Army
18/03/2022 … Bill Bailey has revealed his bid for Eurovision was rejected by the BBC for being ‘too silly’.
Let's hear it for petrol pumps!
18/03/2022 … Tweets of the week I get very nostalgic on the internet.
© J.E.T. 603/CC BY-SA 2.0 Kylie Minogue drops out of Ghost team's Comic Relief sketch
18/03/2022 … Kylie Minogue will not be appearing in a sketch with the Ghost cast on tonight’s Comic Relief telethon, after she contracted Covid.
© Netflix Catherine Cohen: The Twist Is… She’s Gorgeous
Review of the new Netflix version of the comedian's Edinburgh award-winning show
18/03/2022 … Has anyone quite so perfectly parodied a personality type – very possibly her own – as Catherine Cohen? In The Twist Is… She’s…
© Channel 4 The Great returns to Channel 4
Broadcaster has rights to series 2
18/03/2022 … Channel 4 has snapped up the rights to the satirical period comedy-drama The Great, which will air thus summer The Emmy-nominated series stars Elle Fanning as Catherine…
© BBC French & Saunders back in Radio 4 comedy
Full series for Whatever Happened To Baby Jane Austen?
18/03/2022 … Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders have recorded a full series of Whatever Happened To Baby Jane Austen? David Quantick – whose credits include Veep…
Monkey Barrel announces its 2022 Edinburgh Fringe programme
18/03/2022 … Monkey Barrel Comedy has announced its programme for the 2022 Edinburgh Fringe, This year will be the venue’s biggest festival yet, with more than 70 acts…