Call me Dr Reg...
Hunter picks up an honorary degree from Lincoln
25/01/2018 … Reginald D Hunter has been made an honorary doctor by the University of Lincoln.
Thu 25 January 2018
Bringing a Morecambe and Wise film back to life
The painstaking way a lost episode is being recovered
25/01/2018 … BBC archivists have described the painstaking process of restoring a previously lost 50-year-old episode of Morecambe and Wise.
© BBC/Colin Hutton Kenneth Branagh and Lily Cole join Upstart Crow
As do Adrian Edmondson and Nigel Planer
25/01/2018 … Kenneth Branagh, Lily Cole and Young Ones stars Adrian Edmondson and Nigel Planer are to appear in the next series of Upstart Crow.
Radio 1 orders a raft of new comedy
25/01/2018 … Radio 1 is to put comedy back on the station after more than a decade – but in a 3am slot.
© BBC Guz Khan becomes a real road man
Comic lands role in new Sky driving thriller
25/01/2018 … Man Like Mobeen star Guz Khan has landed a role in Sky One’s new Fast-And-The-Furious-style drama.
Baby Jack...
Young Whitehall promotes Amused Moose competition
25/01/2018 … Here’s a very fresh-faced Jack Whitehall – pictured 11 years ago when he won the Amused Moose comedy award.
Man charged over comedy club attack
...as venue blames comic for inflaming the situation
25/01/2018 … Police have arrested the man they think launched a savage attack on comedian Steve Brown at a US comedy club this weekend.
Wed 24 January 2018
© Vice Hate Thy Neighbour: Love and Hate in the Deep South
24/01/2018 … The second series of Hate Thy Neighbour is on familiar ground.