Demetri Martin cancels UK gigs – AGAIN
Rescheduled dates pulled with no explanation
17/09/2019 … Demetri Martin has scrapped his UK and Ireland tour dates for the second time in six months.
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Tue 17 September 2019
Manchester Podcast Festival line-up unveiled
Guilty Feminist, Richard Herring and more
17/09/2019 … The Manchester Podcast Festival has unveiled its programme for 2019.
© ITV Gold orders star-studded seaside sitcom
David Walliams, Sanjeev Bhaskar and Simon Bird all head for Sandylands
17/09/2019 … David Walliams, Sanjeev Bhaskar and Simon Bird are to star in a new seaside-set sitcom for the Gold channel.
Mon 16 September 2019
Saturday Night Live fires its new recruit over racist term
'The language Shane Gillis used is offensive, hurtful and unacceptable'
16/09/2019 … Saturday Night Live has fired its new cast member Shane Gillis for using a racist term in a podcast – even before the new season has started.
Netflix signs up Seinfeld
16/09/2019 … Seinfeld is coming to Netflix – but not until 2021.
The Taskmaster army
Alex Horne overwhelmed as 1,000 fans respond to book challenge
16/09/2019 … Around 1,000 people descended on a small Buckinghamshire park yesterday to complete one of the challenges in the Taskmaster book.
Vikki Stone helps rewrite High Fidelity musical
Comic brings the story back to London
16/09/2019 … Makers of a musical comedy based on Nick Hornby’s book High Fidelity have drafted in musical comedian Vikki Stone to help move the action BACK to London.
Keith Lemon's a crafty one...
Comic returns to Channel 4 to host a new crafts competition
16/09/2019 … He has been a face of ITV2 for more than a decade – but Keith Lemon is returning to Channel 4 for a different sort of show that fans are used to.