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© ITVX / Golden Path Productions Gwed features new talent on screen and off
02/05/2023 … ITV has commissioned a new comedy based around working-class teenagers in Liverpool.
© David Woolfall The Stand staff refused to work on Edinburgh Fringe event
02/05/2023 … Edinburgh’s Stand Comedy Club has cancelled a planned appearance by SNP MP Joanna Cherry – after staff refused to work at the event.
© BBC/Angst ...As a US series, backed by Trevor Noah
02/05/2023 … Mock The Week is coming back – but in the US.
© BBC Tony Robinson talks up kids' comedy comeback
01/05/2023 … Tony Robinson says he’s planning a reboot of his kids’ comedy Maid Marian And Her Merry Men – and not for the first time.
© Channel 4 The week's best comedy on TV, radio and streaming
30/04/2023 … Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and on demand this week: Sunday April 30 THE WINDSORS CORONATION SPECIAL: A welcome - and of course timely - return for…
30/04/2023 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the thousands of events Chortle currently has listed.
ITV orders 16 episodes and two Christmas specials
29/04/2023 … ITV has ordered a third series of the Lee Mack fronted game show The 1% Club, before the second has finished airing.
© BBC 28/04/2023 … Michael McIntyre’s coffers have swelled by more than £2million in a year.
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