Fringe chaos: Freestival respond
23/05/2015 … Yesterday we reported on the bitter dispute over between rival organisations Freestival and PBH’s Free Fringe over who will progamme the Cowgatehead in Edinburgh…
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Sat 23 May 2015
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© BBC/Fremantle Productions Third series for Count Arthur
22/05/2015 … The BBC has commissioned a third series of Count Arthur Strong.
De Niro's bitter comedian movie revived
Mike Newell signed up to direct
22/05/2015 … A forthcoming movie starring Robert De Niro as a bitter, ageing stand-up has been given a new lease of life.
Iliza Shlesinger makes UK debut
22/05/2015 … AMERICAN comic Iliza Shlesinger – a former winner of talent show Last Comic Standing – is to make her UK debut.
If Hitler played the Free Fringe...
22/05/2015 … • 'Pete Johansson has to be the best fuck in comedy.
Thu 21 May 2015
Chaos at the Fringe
Freestival have 'no right' to programme venue claims rival PBH
21/05/2015 … It’s fast becoming a Fringe tradition – and today the annual row between rival free Edinburgh show promoters flared up in earnest.
Trigger Happy to return
Dom Joly promises 'cinematic' stunts
21/05/2015 … Dom Joly is bringing back Trigger Happy TV after more than a dozen years.
'I felt violated, scared, objectified'
Comic exposes sexist heckler – who now faces the sack
21/05/2015 … A boorish heckler has been suspended from his job after a comedian went public about his 'rapey' comments.