Celebs to team up for Sky comedy
12/07/2012 … Peep Show co-writer Sam Bain is working on a new comedy series for Sky in which unlikely celebrity couples - the real ones - would appear in sketches together.
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Thu 12 July 2012
Another look in the Black Mirror
C4 orders more from Charlie Brooker
12/07/2012 … Channel 4 has commissioned a second series of Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror plays.
BBC confirms The Thick Of It return
12/07/2012 … BBC Two has confirmed that The Thick Of It will return for a new series of seven half-hour episodes this autumn.
Wed 11 July 2012
US comic in hot water over rape joke
11/07/2012 … Comedian Daniel Tosh has apologised for making a rape joke – in a routine that was supposed to be about how it’s OK to make light of dark subjects.
Tue 10 July 2012
Hardly a new act...
Comic kicked out of competition final after truth emerges
10/07/2012 … A comedian has been kicked out of a new act final after misleading organisers about how long he had been performing.
Gone in 140 characters
One tweet, and Rob Delaney's UK run sells out in an hour
10/07/2012 … Comedian Rob Delaney has sold out a week-long run at London’s Soho Theatre in an hour – on the back of just one tweet.
Dave's One Night Stand to return
Milton Jones & Al Murray among stars
10/07/2012 … Digital TV channel Dave has commissioned a fourth series of its stand-up show One Night Stand.
Johnny Vegas and a cartoon cow
10/07/2012 … Isy Suttie and Johnny Vegas are to voice a new children’s animation this Christmas.