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He choreographed some of Eric & Ern's most famous sketches
27/09/2018 … Veteran comedy producer Ernest Maxin – who helped create some of Morecambe & Wise’s most famous sketches – has died at the age of 95.
Barry Cryer recalls some of the greats...
27/09/2018 … Sky has acquired a second series of Comedy Legends documentaries before the first has even aired, Chortle can reveal.
...before the first has even aired
27/09/2018 … Sky has ordered a second series of Romesh Ranganathan’s pub-based sitcom The Reluctant Landlord before the first has even aired.
Broadcaster buys reruns of hit sitcom
27/09/2018 … Cheers is coming back to Channel 4.
© CBS Former 1D star is an executive producer on Happy Together
27/09/2018 … Channel 4 has bought the rights to the new sitcom loosely based on Harry Styles’s life.
27/09/2018 … Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer are making a movie about two best friends in search of Michael Jackson’s white glove.
...this one all about telly itself
27/09/2018 … Alan Carr is piloting a new TV series, about TV.
27/09/2018 … British comic James Veitch is to tour America with talk show host Conan O’Brien.
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