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© Avalon BBC renews its longest-running sitcom
19/05/2025 … The BBC has renewed Lee Mack’s sitcom Not Going Out for yet another series - as it's revealed the timeline will again jump forward when the show…
© Robyn Von Swank 19/05/2025 … Sarah Silverman has admitted she was ‘fucking ignorant’ to don blackface for her American TV show.
Opposite Dame Harriet Walter and directed by Ralph Fiennes
19/05/2025 … Dylan Moran is to make his debut as a Shakespearean stage actor, starring opposite Dame Harriet Walter.
© Channel 4 The best of the week's comedy on TV, radio and on demand
18/05/2025 … Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week…: Monday May 19 CONVERSATIONS FROM A LONG MARRIAGE: Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam return…
Chelsea Handler, Patton Oswalt, Josh Johnson and the rest of the week's live comedy picks
18/05/2025 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the thousands of events Chortle currently has listed.
© ITV Jack Davenport plays a butler who takes over a pub
18/05/2025 … Jack Davenport is to star in a comedy movie about an emotionally stunted butler who is given broken-down inn by the lord he worked for.
New competitive sand sculpure series for the BBC
17/05/2025 … Iain Stirling has started filming Race Against The Tide, the sand sculpture competition he is hosting for BBC Two.
But the Bachelor Boy vetoed the idea
17/05/2025 … Matt Lucas and David Walliams wrote a musical based on Cliff Richard’s songs – only for the pop star to veto the project.
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