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20/04/2016 … David Swift, the actor who played Henry Davenport in the Drop the Dead Donkey, has died days before his 86th birthday.
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Tracy Morgan pulls gig over gay rights
Comic boycotts Mississippi over new law
20/04/2016 … Tracy Morgan has pulled a gig in Mississippi in protest against the state legalising discrimination against gay people.
Paddy McGuinness to host car show
20/04/2016 … Paddy McGuinness is to present a new car-based show for The Travel Channel In Drive Of My Life, the Take Me Out comic will drive celebrities to places that mean…
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Stars pay tribute to Victoria Wood
20/04/2016 … Cant believe Vic has gone.
Dawn French to star in Sky 1 drama
Sex, food and secrets in Delicious
20/04/2016 … Dawn French is to star in a four-part Sky 1 drama set in rural Cornwall.
BBC adapts 'astoundingly filthy' Fleabag for TV
With Olivia Colman and Hugh Dennis
20/04/2016 … Olivia Colman and Hugh Dennis are to star in a sexually explicit feminist comedy-drama for BBC Three.
Limmy to play Edinburgh Fringe
20/04/2016 … LIMMY is to perform at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe.
What Lucy did next
Sky's ex-comedy boss lands US deal for her new company
20/04/2016 … Former BBC and Sky comedy chief Lucy Lumsden has launched her own independent TV company, Yellow Door Productions, which already has a ‘first look’ deal with…