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Sat 08 October 2016
Mixed fortunes for Still Game's return
A ratings smash in Scotland - less so elsewhere
08/10/2016 … The return of Still Game has notched up a record audience in Scotland - but performed less well south of the border.
Fri 07 October 2016
BBC One signs Ivan Brackenbury
Full series of Hospital People ordered
07/10/2016 … Inept hospital DJ Ivan Brackenbury has been given his own BBC One series, following a successful pilot.
Why Black Mirror is like Fawlty Towers...
Charlie Brooker speaks about new series
07/10/2016 … Even the grimmest episode of Black Mirror is based on the same principles as comedy writing, creator Charlie Brooker has said.
© BBC/Two Brothers Pictures Fleabag returns to the stage
Phoebe Waller-Bridge goes back to Soho
07/10/2016 … Phoebe Waller-Bridge is taking BBC sleeper hit Fleabag back to the stage.
'Nobody's penis was that big...'
07/10/2016 … •'Every time I go out to do Just a Minute, I am conscious I might never work again.
Ade Edmondson becomes a children's author
07/10/2016 … Adrian Edmondson is to become the latest comedian to turn to children’s literature.
Thu 06 October 2016
'A Miranda for the Snapchat generation'
Hart plans new comedy about a clumsy teen
06/10/2016 … Miranda Hart is developing a children's comedy drama about a teenage agony aunt.