Adil Ray to host new ITV game show
Word-based show Lingo seeks contestants
13/08/2020 … Citizen Khan star Adil Ray is to host a new ITV show based on word games.
Thu 13 August 2020
Tim Minchin releases a new single, Apart Together
Title track from his first studio album
13/08/2020 … Tim Minchin has released the title track from his first studio album, Apart Together.
Wed 12 August 2020
American network chiefs fail in their ratings task...
Dumping Taskmaster didn't boost the CW's audience
12/08/2020 … The American network executives’ decision to axe Taskmaster after just one episode has had almost zero effect on their ratings.
© Markus Spiske/Pexels If computers made Edinburgh Fringe shows..
An AI bot is generating some fake titles and blurbs - but are they any weirder than the real thing?
12/08/2020 … There may not be an Edinburgh Fringe show this year, but hundreds of shows are still being generated.
Fresh Prince of Bel-Air gets a gritty reboot
Bidding war sparked by viral video
12/08/2020 … Will Smith’s 1990s sitcom The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air is set to be rebooted – as a gritty drama.
Paul Mescal tests The Young Offenders stars on their friendship
How well do Alex Murphy and Chris Walley know each other?
12/08/2020 … How well do Young Offenders creators Alex Murphy and Chris Walley know each other? That's what Normal People star Paul Mescal tries to find out in this new…
Minchin, Watson, Gilbert... and Jim Bowen
Some of Chortle's reviews from the 2005 Edinburgh Fringe
12/08/2020 … 2005 was the year in which Laura Solon achieved the Edinburgh dream - an unknown playing a pub back room with a show she had to put together at the last minute because…
Tue 11 August 2020
Steve Coogan mulls a big Alan Partridge live tour
'I think in the next couple of years....'
11/08/2020 … Steve Coogan is considering a new tour in the guise of Alan Partridge, for the first time in a decade.