Sarah Millican axes her online women's magazine
Standard Issue was running at a loss
05/04/2017 … Sarah Millican is to close her online women’s magazine, Standard Issue, after it failed to turn a profit.
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Simon Pegg to play schizophrenic record producer
In new movie Lost Transmissions
05/04/2017 … Simon Pegg is to star as a schizophrenic record producer in a new movie.
Patrick Stewart to host HIGNFY
As panel show returns for 53rd series
05/04/2017 … Patrick Stewart is to host Have I Got News For You.
© Maria Joner/CC BY-SA 4.0 Vladimir Putin, comedy mastermind?
Is the Kremlin using laughs as a propaganda tool?
05/04/2017 … Forget interfering in American elections, Russia has found a new way of manipulating people: comedy.
When I Grow Up to become a picture book
Deal signed for Tim Minchin's Matilda track
05/04/2017 … Tim Minchin's song When I Grow Up is to become a picture book.
Jim Tavare out of hospital
Comic back at home after horror crash
05/04/2017 … Jim Tavare is back at home – less than a month after the horrific crash that left him severely injured.
Billy Crystal to play a washed-up composer
In a comedy directed by Barry Levinson
05/04/2017 … Billy Crystal is to star in a new comedy movie about a down-on-his luck Broadway composer.
International Emmy for Horrible Histories
05/04/2017 … Horrible Histories has won an international Emmy award.