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© BBC/Tiger Aspect First image as shooting starts on Waugh adaptation
22/07/2016 … Here is the first picture of Jack Whitehall on the set of the BBC’s adaptation of Decline And Fall.
© BBC End of the line for BBC Three comedy
22/07/2016 … BBC Three has dropped Siblings after two series.
Mike Ward must pay damages for insulting disabled teen
21/07/2016 … A Canadian comedian has been ordered to pay just over £20,000 ($35,000) for making jokes at the expense of a disabled teenager.
Travel writing tome to be called Nomad
21/07/2016 … Alan Partridge's new book is to be called Nomad and released on October 20, it has been announced.
21/07/2016 … Brian Pern actor Simon Day is to star in a new play, set backstage at Waiting For Godot.
Peter MacNicol's appearances broke the rules
21/07/2016 … An actor from Veep has been stripped of his Emmy nomination – after organisers realised his performance was ineligible.
It'll take two weeks, 24hrs a day
21/07/2016 … Comedians and activists including Omid Djalili, Stewart Lee and Reginald D Hunter are to read out loud the entire Chilcot Report into the Iraq War.
'There's never been a better time for this'
21/07/2016 … Stand-up and podcaster Matt Forde is to front a new political comedy series for Dave called Unspun.
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