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…
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Wed 20 April 2016
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…
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 'A heartbreaking day for comedy'
Stars pay tribute to Victoria Wood
20/04/2016 … Cant believe Vic has gone.
Tue 19 April 2016
Hans Teeuwen: President Erdogan was a ‘boywhore'
Dutch comic wades in on free speech row
19/04/2016 … Dutch comedian Hans Teeuwen has claimed Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan used to be a 'boywhore' in Istanbul brothel.
© BBC / Alan Peebles Two Doors Down gets a second series
BBC Two will return to Latimer Crescent
19/04/2016 … BBC Two has commissioned a second series of its comedy series Two Doors Down, midway through the first run.
BBC launches school comedy competition
19/04/2016 … The BBC has launched a new comedy writing competition aimed at secondary school students, fronted by David Walliams.
Everybody loved Doris Roberts...
Tributes as sitcom star dies at 90
19/04/2016 … Everybody Loves Raymond star Doris Roberts has died at the age of 90.