Raised by Wolves crowdfunder fails
Caitlin Moran falls £120,000 short of target
21/11/2016 … Caitlin Moran’s bid to crowdfund more episodes of her Channel 4 comedy Raised by Wolves has failed.
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Mon 21 November 2016
Filming starts on new Outnumbered
See how the kids have changed in the first new episode for three years
21/11/2016 … Filming has begun on the new Outnumbered Christmas special – the first new episode of the family sitcom in nearly three years.
© Home Office / Creative Commons Now Ofcom raps Queen jokes
Fresh censure for Radio 4 panel show
21/11/2016 … The episode of Radio 4 panel show Don’t Make Me Laugh that joked about the Queen’s sex life on her 90th birthday has been rapped by broadcast watchdog…
Iain Stirling wins a kids' Bafta
...and, no, it's not for Love Island
21/11/2016 … Iain Stirling, the comedian who narrates one of TV’s raunchiest shows, has won a Children’s Bafta.
© Hungry McBear / BBC Michael McIntyre beats X Factor
21/11/2016 … Michael McIntyre proved more popular than X Factor on Saturday night.
© BBC/Roughcut Sexy Murder gets a bigger release
Rich Fulcher's BBC spoof comes to iPlayer
21/11/2016 … The BBC is re-releasing Sexy Murder, its spoof of true crime series such as Making A Murderer and The Serial podcast, as a single half-hour episode.
© BBC New BBC sitcom for Angus Deayton
Playing a middle-aged man in a houseshare
21/11/2016 … Angus Deayton is to star in a new radio sitcom.
Sun 20 November 2016
© BBC/King Bert/Ray Burmiston