© BBC Noel Fielding teases a Boosh comeback
03/01/2020 … Noel Fielding has teased a possible return of The Mighty Boosh.
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Fri 03 January 2020
© BBC 
The Good Life to be a stage show
Starring Katherine Parkinson as Barbara
03/01/2020 … The Good Life is set for a stage revival, with the IT Crowd’s Katherine Parkinson cast as Barbara.
Thu 02 January 2020
Gavin & Stacey breaks more records
Catch-up viewing brings ratings to 17million – making it the biggest scripted TV show of the 2010s
02/01/2020 … The final viewing figures are in for Gavin & Stacey – and they make the Christmas special the UK's most-watched scripted TV programme of the 2010s.
© BBC This Country to launch with a free preview screening
02/01/2020 … The BBC is launching the next series of This Country with a free preview screening in the Cotswolds.
Wed 01 January 2020
Jack and Michael Whitehall top Netflix's stand-up chart
Beating Kevin Hart into No2 in the UK
01/01/2020 … Jack Whitehall’s Christmas With My Father was most watched Netflix live comedy special in the UK in 2019.
Tue 31 December 2019
© GS TV Productions Ltd Gavin & Stacey tops catch-up ratings
Another 700,000 hours spent watching the Christmas special
31/12/2019 … The Gavin & Stacey Christmas special has boosted its record-breaking TV audience by becoming the most-watched programme on catch-up since it aired.
© Netflix After Life is Netflix's No2 series of 2019
...and The Crown is nowhere to be seen
31/12/2019 … Ricky Gervais’s After Life was the second-most watched Netflix series in the UK this year.
Mon 30 December 2019
Midland bankers...
Scott Bennett leads the Midlands comedy awards
30/12/2019 … Nottingham-based Scott Bennett has been named best act at the Midlands Comedy Awards for the second year running, with Josh Pugh once again taking the runner-up…