Jack Whitehall announces tour
At Large kicks off in February 2017
14/05/2016 … Jack Whitehall is to launch his ‘biggest tour ever’ early next year.
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Sat 14 May 2016
Fri 13 May 2016
Morecambe's mementos on display
13/05/2016 … Some of Eric Morecambe's personal artefacts are to go on display for the first time tomorrow.
The Muppets are stuffed
Broadcaster ABC axes the reboot
13/05/2016 … The reboot of The Muppets TV show has been axed after just one season.
Michael Palin to star in Terry Gilliam's Don Quixote movie
...and he's in Armando Iannucci's new satire
13/05/2016 … Michael Palin is set to star as Don Quixote in a new film from Monty Python colleague Terry Gilliam.
James Acaster hits Germany
Exclusive clip as new raft of online shows announced
13/05/2016 … James Acaster is to launch a follow-up to his web series Sweet Home Ketteringa next week, as producers Turtle Canyon Comedy unveil a new slate of online shorts.
'You can't have a sitcom in space. There's no settee.'
13/05/2016 … • 'In comedy everybody feels like an outsider, that's why they've come into it.
Joan Rivers' family settle lawsuit
'Those culpable for her death have accepted responsibility'
13/05/2016 … Joan Rivers’ daughter Melissa has settled the lawsuit with the New York clinic where the comedian went into cardiac arrest.
Thu 12 May 2016
Missing Hancocks to return
BBC re-recording five more lost episodes
12/05/2016 … Radio 4 has commissioned a third series of The Missing Hancocks, despite star Kevin McNally sparking rumours that it had been cancelled.