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Sitcom is No 2 in iPlayer chart
13/01/2017 … Mrs Brown’s Boys was the second most popular show on iPlayer over the Christmas period.
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Fri 13 January 2017
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Limmy in talks to make Daft Wee Stories TV show
But he's done with sketches and internet shorts
13/01/2017 … Limmy is in talks to make a TV series based on his book Daft Wee Stories – but he won’t be returning to his sketch show, nor the internet shorts that made his…
The man who put Python on the big screen
Playboy Victor Lownes dies at 88
13/01/2017 … Victor Lownes, the Playboy executive at the heart of the Swinging Sixties, has died of a heart attack at the age of 88.
New Arrested Development 'really close'
13/01/2017 … A FIFTH series of Arrested Development is ‘really close’ to being agreed, executive producer Brian Grazer has revealed.
Thu 12 January 2017
Glasgow comedy fest launches its 2017 programme
12/01/2017 … The Glasgow comedy festival has launched its 2017 programme, featuring more than 470 shows over its 18 days.
© Rose d'Or John Cleese's 'new' farce
...and there was a dead parrot involved
12/01/2017 … John Cleese has adapted a 19th century farce for the stage… and it involves a dead parrot.
Lucy Beaumont to front Hull documentary
12/01/2017 … Lucy Beaumont is to present a BBC documentary about her home town of Hull.
Timothy Spall channels the comedy greats
12/01/2017 … Timothy Spall plays a raft of comic greats, including Max Wall, George Formby, Tony Hancock and Max Miller, in an ambitious new film.