© Mark Senior Spitting Image Live: What the critics said
17/02/2023 … Spitting Image Live: Idiots Assemble opened at the Rep Theatre in Birmingham last night.
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Fri 17 February 2023
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© Steve Ullathorne Ashley Blaker writes a book about parenting kids with special needs
17/02/2023 … Comedian Ashley Blaker has written a book about bringing up children with special needs.
Micky Flanagan announces new stand-up show
17/02/2023 … Micky Flanagan has announced a new stand-up show – but with just eight tour dates so far.
Still Open All Hours... closes
BBC pulls down the shutters on Arkwright’s corner store
17/02/2023 … Still Open All Hours is to close after six series, the BBC has confirmed.
© 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.
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…