A tight 5: December 1

COMEDIAN Celia Pacquola has won an Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Award for her role in Utopia. She beat a puppet – Randy – and actors Nathan Lovejoy and Emily Taheny to the accolade for best performance in a TV comedy. Collecting her award, she said: 'I'm very happy to look at that list: it has two women and a purple man in it. Here's to diversity.' She plays frustrated bureaucrat Nat in the show, renamed Dreamland for Netflix the UK to avoid confusion with the Channel 4 series of the same name.

HARRY POTTER author JK Rowling has filmed a tribute interview to her friend Peter Kay for a BBC One programme dedicated to the Bolton comic, 20 Years of Funny, airing on Christmas Eve.

KIERAN HODGSON has announced a national tour of his Foster's Award-nominated show Lance next year, including a third run at London's Soho Theatre. The show is about Hodgson's experiences as a cycling-mad youth obsessed by Lance Armstrong, before his fall from grace. The tour will follow his appearance as Ian Lavender in BBC Two's Christmas one-off We're Doomed! The Dad's Army Story. Tour dates and review.

LONDON's Leicester Square Theatre has launched a new live sketch competition. Groups with ten-minute sets can enter heats in February and March, with a final on March 11 with a £500 prize. Details.

JORDAN PEELE of the Key and Peele sketch duo, and Brooklyn Nine-Nine star Chelsea Peretti have got engaged, after dating for more than two years.

Published: 1 Dec 2015