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© BBC Axed: Wright Way, Getting On and Heading Out... plus questions over Miranda
09/07/2013 … The BBC has axed Ben Elton’s much-derided sitcom The Wright Way – while there is a question mark over the future of Miranda.
© BBC 09/07/2013 … Getting On creators Jo Scanlan and Vicki Pepperdine are to pen a new sitcom for the BBC, set at a dog training class.
VIDEO: Contestant takes rejection badly...
08/07/2013 … Comedian Andrew Ryan has been attacked on stage by a gong show contestant who’d been booed off.
But Stewart Lee is trying to challenge it
08/07/2013 … British comedy has undergone an elitist 'stitch-up', with poorer performers being ‘priced out’ of success, Stewart Lee has claimed.
08/07/2013 … Stars including Michael Palin and June Whitfield helped unveil a blue plaque to Eric Sykes at his former West London office yesterday.
08/07/2013 … The new Alan Partridge film Alpha Papa is to have its world premiere in Norwich, following an online campaign from locals.
08/07/2013 … IRISH comedian Tara Flynn has been named Satirist Of The Year at the Swift Satire Festival in Trim, Co Meath, staged in honour of Gulliver’s Travels author Jonathan…
To highlight child refugee crisis
08/07/2013 … Eddie Izzard has travelled to Iraq to report on the crisis facing Syrian refugees in the country.
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