© ITV Joel Dommett to host BBC One's Survivor
'Thank you for trusting me with this'
17/02/2023 … Joel Dommett has been confirmed as the next host of Survivor.
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Fri 17 February 2023
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Joe Lycett and Mo Gilligan to receive National Comedy Awards
As best stand-up nominees also announced
17/02/2023 … Channel 4 comics Joe Lycett and Mo Gilligan are both to receive special accolades at the broadcaster’s National Comedy Awards tonight.
Thu 16 February 2023
When does The Big Door Prize start?
Chris O'Dowd's new comedy for Apple TV+
16/02/2023 … Chris O’Dowd’s new Apple TV+ comedy The Big Door Prize will start on Mach 29, the streaming service has announced.
ITVX buys Kitty Flanagan’s Fisk
Australian legal comedy lands in the UK
16/02/2023 … Kitty Flanagan’s Australian sitcom Fisk is coming to the UK The series, in which the stand-up plays the titular lawyer forced to take a job at a ‘shabby…
London's Vault Festival COULD return to its home
Venue owners haven't closed the door
16/02/2023 … The owners of the tunnels underneath London’s Waterloo station have not ruled out hosting the Vault festival in future.
Joe Lycett offers Brummies the chance to break into TV
Four traineeships offered in his new Channel 4 show
16/02/2023 … Joe Lycett is offering four Birmingham locals the chance to get their first job in TV, working on his new live Friday-night Channel 4 show.
Comedy agent Hannah Layton sells up
She and her clients join InterTalent, re-establishing a comedy division
16/02/2023 … Comedy agent Hannah Layton has sold her eponymous company to the larger management firm InterTalent.
Susan Wokoma to star in Deborah Frances-White's first play
Never Have I Ever cast also includes Alexandra Roach and Greg Wis
16/02/2023 … Cheaters actress Susan Wokoma is to star in the first play to be written by comedian Deborah Frances-White.