Mel & Sue return to chat show
15/08/2014 … Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins are to present an ITV daytime chat show – 15 years after their Channel 4 chat show was cancelled.
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Fri 15 August 2014
Eddie Izzard joins the superhuman
15/08/2014 … EDDIE IZZARD is to star in a new supernatural TV series Powers, based on the graphic novel series of the same name.
Thu 14 August 2014
© Giles Smith Josie Long's film in New York festival
14/08/2014 … A FILM starring Josie Long has been officially selected for screening at the New York Television Festival.
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Threat to block 'disrespectful' blog's free tickets
14/08/2014 … A row has erupted on the Edinburgh Fringe after a PR company threatened to withdraw free press tickets from bloggers for not showing enough respect to the comedians…
Talk show for Braunohler?
Comedy Central US orders pilot
14/08/2014 … Offbeat comedian Kurt Braunohler could become the next late-night talk show host on American TV.
Tue 12 August 2014
© Charles Haynes/Creative Commons Police: Robin Williams hanged himself
President Obama joins tributes
12/08/2014 … Robin Williams took his own life by hanging himself at his California home, police have confirmed.
Alfie Moore cops another R4 series
Six new episodes from policeman turned comic
12/08/2014 … Radio 4 has commissioned a second series from policeman-turned-comedian Alfie Moore.