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© Netflix Natasia Demetriou to host Netflix's The Big Flower Fight with Vic Reeves
22/04/2020 … Natasia Demetriou is to co-host new Netflix series The Big Flower Fight with Vic Reeves, the streaming service has announced today.
© BBC/Objective Fiction Four Squeamish About… episodes ordered
22/04/2020 … BBC Two has commissioned Matt Berry to make a new series of offbeat mockumentaries.
© BBC New shorts on dealing with lockdown
22/04/2020 … Comics including Bob Mortimer, Kerry Godliman and Tom Allen are to take part in a new series of BBC Two comedy shorts shot in isolation.
22/04/2020 … Charlie Brooker is to make his first Wipe show in more than three years to tackle the coronavirus outbreak.
© BBC / Expectation BBC Two orders Sophie Willan's sitcom after hit pilot
22/04/2020 … Sophie Willan’s sitcom Alma’s Not Normal has been commissioned for a full series, following the success of a pilot earlier this month.
Footage from old gigs to be streamed
21/04/2020 … The Comedy Store is to stream footage from its archives for the first time in a bid to generate income during the lockdown.
© BBC Radio Wales announces a Machynlleth Comedy Festival weekend
21/04/2020 … BBC Radio Wales is to air a virtual version of the Machynlleth Comedy Festival, despite the real thing being cancelled.
Armando Iannucci on the creative dilemma he's facing
21/04/2020 … Armando Iannucci has admitted that trying to be funny during a pandemic is causing him a profound creative dilemma.
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