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Birmingham festival announces 2019 line-up
30/07/2019 … The Birmingham Comedy has announced its full line-up.
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Tue 30 July 2019
© UKTV Sir Lenny opens d'Ors
Comedian and actor to host international TV awards
30/07/2019 … Sir Lenny Henry is to host this year’s Rose d’Or international TV awards ceremony.
Netflix comedy for WWE wrestler The Big Show
...based on his real personal life
30/07/2019 … WWE wrestler The Big Show is to star in his own comedy series for Netflix.
BBC Radio Wales orders a second series of Relocation
Witness protection sitcom from Robin Morgan
30/07/2019 … BBC Radio Wales has commissioned a second series of Relocation, written by and starring Welsh stand-up Robin Morgan, to be broadcast next year.
Live action Bevis and Butt-head movie planned
'I've got some ideas,' says creator Mike Judge
30/07/2019 … They’re already doing it to The Little Mermaid – and now Beavis & Butt-Head could be the next animated characters to revived as a live-action…
Comedians get animated about friendship
In an ad break takeover on Dave
30/07/2019 … The Dave channel is to give over one of its ad breaks tonight to comedians telling funny anecdotes, all set to animation.
© BBC/Fremantle Productions Bring back Count Arthur Strong!
Comedy named one of the most-missed shows of the century
30/07/2019 … More viewers want Count Arthur Strong to return to TV screens than ratings juggernauts Downton Abbey and Life On Mars.
Mon 29 July 2019
Paul Whitehouse to voice The Tiger Who Came To Tea
With David Walliams, Tamsin Greig and Benedict Cumberbatch
29/07/2019 … Paul Whitehouse, David Walliams and Tamsin Greig are to lend their voices to a new animated version of The Tiger Who Came to Tea, to air on Channel 4…