© BBC Big success for online play reading service
16/02/2021 … More than 26,000 students logged on to the read through of Macbeth featuring Joe Lycett’s Shakespearean debut.
...and he's seeking a youngster to play him as a child
16/02/2021 … Alan Carr is working on a sitcom based on his 1980s upbringing.
New commissions for Dave and Gold channels
16/02/2021 … The Dave and Gold TV channels are to commission a series of half-hour comedy and drama scripts from underrepresented talent across the UK.
But will Lee Ridley's act be the same if he reprogrammes his speech synthesiser
16/02/2021 … ‘Lost Voice Guy’ Lee Ridley is hoping to acquire a Geordie accent.
Humphrey Lyttelton’s Lionel Blair jokes – as written by Iain Pattinson
15/02/2021 … In tribute to I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue writer Iain Pattinson, who died at the weekend, here is a compilation of Humphrey Lyttelton’s introductions…
© BBC Tributes from across the world of comedy
15/02/2021 … Tributes have been paid to Iain Pattinson, the writer of I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue, who died at the weekend at the age of 68 after a short illness.
© Aardman Animations CITV commissions animated comedy Lloyd Of The Flies
15/02/2021 … Wallace And Gromit studio Aardman Animations is making a new animated comedy for CITV, all about a housefly.
As two new characters are introduced
15/02/2021 … Matt Lucas is to present a new Channel 4 documentary looking back at 50 years of the Mr Men books.
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