Ed Byrne aids stricken hillwaker
'It's not a tale of derring-do,' says comic
21/01/2017 … Ed Byrne has helped an injured hillwalker to safety during a hike in the Cairngorms.
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Fri 20 January 2017
Mr Swallow makes his TV debut
...as we reveal the next batch of Sky comedy shorts
20/01/2017 … Nick Mohammed's Mr Swallow and Colin Hoult's character Anna Mann are to make their first television appearances in Sky’s next series of comedy films, Chortle can…
© BBC Angus Deayton's new presenting job
Great British Bake Off spin-off
20/01/2017 … Angus Deayton is to host Great British Bake Off spin-off Creme de la Creme.
Susan Calman to host BBC One quiz show
The Boss coming to daytime soon
20/01/2017 … Susan Calman is to host a daytime quiz for BBC One, Chortle can reveal.
© Kyle Cassidy/Creative Commons BBC to make Gaiman and Pratchett's Good Omens
'It feels like a good time for a comedy about impending global apocalypse'
20/01/2017 … The BBC is to make a six-part comedy series based on Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s fantasy novel Good Omens.
One comic's already profiting from Trump's presidency
20/01/2017 … • ’Looking forward to Trump’s assassi… inauguration.
Thu 19 January 2017
© Idil Sukan Netflix signs Katherine Ryan
Stand-up special out on Valentine's Day
19/01/2017 … Netflix is to air Katherine Ryan’s latest stand-up show.
© BBC/Richard Ansett Inside No 9 to return
Fourth series set to start shooting next month
19/01/2017 … Inside No 9 is to return for a fourth series of six new episodes.