Matt Lucas pilots improv chat show
30/01/2013 … Matt Lucas is being lined up for a new improvised ITV chat show – in which all the guests are fictional comedy characters.
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Wed 30 January 2013
Tue 29 January 2013
Comedy club staff should be hung
29/01/2013 … An artist has turned to a crowdfunding website to held finance a new photo exhibition – featuring only people who work in comedy clubs.
C4 to air London Irish expat comedy
29/01/2013 … Channel 4 is making a comedy-drama about four Irish friends living in London.
Animal activists stick the boot in
Connolly slated over stingray shoes
29/01/2013 … Maybe he should stick to banana boots.
Mon 28 January 2013
Jason Manford Moving On... to daytime telly
28/01/2013 … Johnny Vegas might not be the first person you think of when it comes to daytime TV – but the raucous stand-up has directed a host of familiar comedy faces in…
Spy defects to America
Another remake gets a pilot commission
28/01/2013 … Sky’s comedy series Spy is to become the latest British hit to be piloted for American audiences.
Dawn French to play James Corden's mum
28/01/2013 … Dawn French is to play James Corden's mum in his new comedy-thriller.
Why TV hasn't a Clue...
Execs loved a pilot – but wanted younger comics
28/01/2013 … Plans for a TV version of I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue were dropped – because executives thought the teams were too old.