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Sat 29 June 2019
Carry On movies set for a comeback
...but this time they'll be politically correct
29/06/2019 … The Carry On film franchise could be revived after 27 years following a trademark battle – but this time the comedies will be ‘politically correct’.
Andrew Hunter Murray sells his novel's film rights
29/06/2019 … Andrew Hunter Murray has signed a deal for the TV and film rights for his debut novel said to be in the ‘high six figures’.
Fri 28 June 2019
BBC orders a dark comedy about a teen and her mentally ill mum
In My Skin picked up after a 2018 pilot
28/06/2019 … The BBC has commissioned a new dark comedy series about a teenage girl whose mother has been sectioned in a mental facility.
Former Jongleurs boss struck off
Mario Lourides's 'deplorable' £20million scam discredited the accountancy profession
28/06/2019 … Mario Lourides, the crooked former boss of the Jongleurs comedy club chain, has been drummed out of his professional body.
Who's standing in for James Corden on A League Of Their Own
28/06/2019 … Jack Whitehall, Romesh Ranganathan and David Walliams will be among the guest presenters on the next series of A League Of Their Own.
Thu 27 June 2019
Now Seinfeld becomes a tourist attraction
The sitcom 'experience' opens this autumn
27/06/2019 … A new Seinfeld ‘experience’ is to open in New York later this year.
ALF star Max Wright dies at 75
Actor was also the Central Perk boss in Friends
27/06/2019 … ALF star Max Wright has died at the age of 75 after a long battle with cancer, He was best known for playing Willie Tanner, the adoptive father of the ‘alien…