Mae Martin and Joe Lycett scoop two RTS awards apiece
Young Offenders and Mo Milligan also among winners
16/03/2021 … Joe Lycett and Mae Martin have both scooped two Royal Television Society Awards tonight.
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Tue 16 March 2021
Comics join BBC Two book show
Guests revealed for Between The Covers
16/03/2021 … Micky Flanagan, Nish Kumar and Rachel Parris are among the comedians taking part in the next series of BBC Two’s book club Between The Covers.
© Robert Day Play That Goes Wrong sets its reopening
Back in the West End this summer
16/03/2021 … The Play That Goes Wrong has announced that it will return to London’s Duchess Theatre from June 18.
Adam Kay signs up for more children's books
The next, Kay's Marvellous Medicine, is out this autumn
16/03/2021 … Adam Kay is to write three non-fiction books for children.
© BBC Ellie Taylor to make a second series for Radio 4
Safe Space also features comic Robin Morgan
16/03/2021 … Ellie Taylor is to make a second series of her Radio 4 show Safe Space.
Mon 15 March 2021
Shaun The Sheep up for an Oscar
Farmageddon nominated for best animated feature
15/03/2021 … Aardman comedy Shaun The Sheep 2: Farmageddon has been nominated for an Oscar.
Phil Wang finally gets to tape his Netflix special
...and at the London Palladium, too
15/03/2021 … Phil Wang is finally getting to record his first full-length Netflix special.
© Belstone Pictures A killer cast!
Comedy stars galore in comic horror movie Paul Dood’s Deadly Lunch Break
15/03/2021 … A host of British comedy talent have made a comic horror-thriller movie set to have its world festival premiere this week.