© BBC Gold confirm new Morecambe and Wise clip show
21/06/2019 … The Gold TV channel has confirmed that Sir Lenny Henry is to host a new show repackaging old Morecambe and Wise clips, as Chortle reported last month.
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Fri 21 June 2019
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© BBC/Talkback/Brian Ritchie Stephen Fry adapts Ealing comedy for the West End
Kind Hearts and Coronets set to open next year
21/06/2019 … Stephen Fry has adapted the classic Ealing comedy Kind Hearts And Coronets for the West End stage.
Thu 20 June 2019
James Acaster up for an Australian comedy award
Only the second Brit ever to be nominated for the Helpmann
20/06/2019 … James Acaster has been nominated for one of the top awards for live entertainment in Australia.
© BBC/Two Brothers Fleabag up for three Television Critics Awards
More acclaim for Phoebe Waller-Bridge
20/06/2019 … Fleabag is up for three gongs in the prestigious Television Critics Awards in America, including programme of the year.
Cold Feet gets a ninth series
20/06/2019 … Cold Feet has been recommissioned for a ninth series.
© BBC David Walliams to star in a Cinderella sequel
With Sian Gibson in the title role
20/06/2019 … David Walliams and Sian Gibson are to star in a sequel to the Cinderella story for Sky One.
Wed 19 June 2019
The battle of Blackpool
Legal tussle could sink comedy club
19/06/2019 … Comedians have raised more than £1,000 to help a comedy promoter embroiled in a ‘David and Goliath’ tussle with a venue he used to book.
Smack The Pony reunion 'is not happening'
Doon Mackichan says no TV channel wants their new sketches
19/06/2019 … No broadcaster is prepared to air a Smack The Pony reunion, star Doon Mackichan has claimed.