© BBC BBC orders a fifth series of Citizen Khan
19/01/2016 … BBC One has commissioned a fifth series of Citizen Khan.
Tue 19 January 2016
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Jimmy Carr's Netflix special gets a release date
Plus live shows from Patton Oswalt and Hannibal Buress
19/01/2016 … Jimmy Carr’s Netflix special is to be released on March 18, the streaming giant has announced.
Peter Kay's back catalogue raided again
Backwards-looking BBC plans MORE tributes
19/01/2016 … The BBC is to air ANOTHER tribute to Peter Kay’s comedy career - this one spanning six half-hour episodes.
Mon 18 January 2016
Steve Coogan to play Stan Laurel
With John C. Reilly as Oliver Hardy
18/01/2016 … Steve Coogan is to play Stan Laurel in a new biopic of Laurel and Hardy.
Ninia Benjamin, Jasper Cromwell Jones etc...
18/01/2016 … It may have been two and half years since Lee Hurst reopened his Backyard Club in Bethnal Green, but it still lays claim to being London’s newest purpose-built…
Victory for Veep
...and Deborah Francis White in Writers' Guild awards
18/01/2016 … Veep has scooped the Writers’ Guild award for best TV comedy – with Deborah Francis-White taking the radio category.
James Haslam: Life In A Goldfish Bowl
Gig review by Steve Bennett at the Leicester Square Theatre
18/01/2016 … Life In A Goldfish Bowl is an odd choice of title for cabaret performer James Haslam’s solo show.