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Tue 04 April 2017
Mon 03 April 2017
Fleabag back at the Fringe
03/04/2017 … FLEABAG is set to return to the Edinburgh Fringe – but without its creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
© BBC How Channel 4 missed out on Mrs Brown's Boys
And no, there won't be a movie sequel
03/04/2017 … Channel 4 wanted to bring Mrs Brown's Boys to TV several years before the BBC nabbed it â€" but creator Brendan O’Carroll…
© LadyGeek TV/Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic/CC BY-SA 2.0 When it's OK to call Jacob Rees-Mogg an arsehole
No rebuke for Nish Kumar's Radio 4 comments
03/04/2017 … The BBC Trust says it can be acceptable to call MP Jacob Rees-Mogg an ‘areshole’ on Radio 4.
© C4 Who invaded The Voice final?
It wasn't Simon Brodkin, whatever viewers thought...
03/04/2017 … Serial prankster Simon Brodkin was not the intruder who gatecrashed the live final of The Voice last night.
Peep Show's Sam Bain pens his first play
...to be directed by Kathy Burke
03/04/2017 … Kathy Burke is to direct a new comedy play by Peep Show co-creator Sam Bain.
Sun 02 April 2017
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© Channel 4 Carrie Fisher's last Catastrophe
The best TV and radio comedy of the week
02/04/2017 … The best of the week's comedy on TV and radio.