Who's in the 2019 Chortle Student Comedy Award final?
21/05/2019 … The last finalists in this year’s Chortle Student Comedy Award were named at the second semi in London last night Going through to the final at the Edinburgh…
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Tue 21 May 2019
The comedy club with no booze
21/05/2019 … Stand-up comedy might normally associated with late-night drunken crowds – with many a comic telling their audience: 'The more you drink the funnier…
© CBS James Corden heads back to the UK
Talk show to broadcast from London for a week
21/05/2019 … The Late Late Show with James Corden is to return to London for four special episodes.
Soho Theatre unveils its new site
Preview peek at how a former music hall will be converted
21/05/2019 … The doors to the historic London venue that will become a new outpost for the Soho Theatre have been opened to the public for the first time in more than 15 years…
© BBC Jo Brand writes a vampire movie
She's adapting The Radleys for the big screen
21/05/2019 … Jo Brand is adapting vampire novel The Radleys for the big screen.
© BBC Filming starts on Death In Paradise series 9
Ardal O’Hanlon is back on Guadeloupe
21/05/2019 … Ardal O’Hanlon has begun filming the ninth series of Death In Paradise in Guadeloupe.
Mon 20 May 2019
BBC axes Martin Clunes sitcom Warren
No second series for much-slated comedy
20/05/2019 … Martin Clunes’s BBC One comedy Warren has been axed after just one series, Chortle can reveal.
Riddle over Alan Davies TV show
Recording 'wrongly advertised' as an As Yet Untitled comeback
20/05/2019 … The Dave TV channel has denied that Alan Davies’s As Yet Untitled is due to return - even though a recording has been advertised for tomorrow.