Zoe Lyons joins MasterChef
Comic is among this year's celebrity line-up
16/05/2018 … Zoe Lyons has been announced as part of the line-up for this year’s Celebrity MasterChef.
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Wed 16 May 2018
Aisling Bea is Happy AF
Channel 4 confirms comedy co-starring Sharon Horgan
16/05/2018 … Channel 4 has confirmed the Aisling Bea comedy Happy AF, as originally reported by Chortle last month.
First award nomination for Idris Elba's In The Long Run
Broadcast Digital shortlists out
16/05/2018 … Idris Elba’s comedy In The Long Run is up for its first award.
© BBC Tracey Ullman takes on Michael Gove
As Tracey Breaks The News returns for a second series
16/05/2018 … Here's Tracey Ullman as you've never seen her before: As Michael Gove.
E4 to parody the world of desperate fallen celebrities
Comedy series Maxx commissioned from Handmaid’s Tale actor O-T Fagbenle
16/05/2018 … Handmaid's Tale actor O-T Fagbenle is to star in a new comedy series about a former boyband star turned drug-shamed tabloid laughing stock.
© Vice Channel 4 signs Jamali Maddix
New series about the 'wild west' of the digital era
16/05/2018 … Jamali Maddix is to front a new Channel 4 series about ‘the wild west frontier of our strange new digital era’ Over three hour-long episodes…
Deborah Frances-White to front female-led topical show
Channel 4 commissions pilot with Guilty Feminist podcaster
16/05/2018 … Comedian and Guilty Feminist podcaster Deborah Frances-White is set to front a female-led late-night satirical news show.
Tue 15 May 2018
Sally Phillips pilots new panel show
With Jayde Adams as her sidekick
15/05/2018 … Sally Phillips and Jayde Adams are piloting a new panel show in which guests draw up new rules of behaviour.