© BBC / Mentorn Robot Wars back on the scrapheap
BBC axes Dara O Briain-fronted series
17/03/2018 … The BBC has axed its reboot of Robot Wars, fronted by Dara O Briain.
Sat 17 March 2018
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Fri 16 March 2018
David Tennant to star in US remake of Camping
16/03/2018 … David Tennant is to star in the US remake of Julia Davis’s comedy Camping.
Stephen Hawking and Jim Bowen on the same day...
16/03/2018 … Tweets of the week It's only been a few hours and Stephen Hawking already mathematically proved, to My face, that I don't exist.
'I got chlamydia from a budgie'
No wonder medics laughed when comic Jodie Mitchell told them
16/03/2018 … Stand-up Jodie Mitchell has revealed that she recently contracted chlamydia - from a budgerigar.
Miss Holland: How To Become A Great British Beauty Queen
16/03/2018 … Miss Holland – the alter-ego of Dutch comic Eline van der Velde - has released the first of her BBC Three shorts.
© BBC/Channel X/Chris Harris Another award detected...
Another gong for Mackenzie Crook's comedy
16/03/2018 … Mackenzie Crook's BBC Four comedy Detectorists was named best comedy at the Broadcasting Press Guild Awards.
© Idil Sukan The best of tomes
16/03/2018 … Adam Kay, Robert Webb and Russell Brand have all made the shortlist for the British Book Awards.