Matt Lucas writes Baked Potato kids' book
21/04/2020 … Matt Lucas is writing a children’s picture book based on his fundraising song Thank You, Baked Potato.
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Tue 21 April 2020
Mon 20 April 2020
Could Seinfeld become an adventure game?
Two fans are trying to make it happen
20/04/2020 … Two video game designers are working on a game based around the Seinfeld sitcom.
Daniel Kitson starts a new breakfast radio show
20/04/2020 … Daniel Kitson has started a breakfast show on London-based Resonance FM.
Book deal for Michael Spicer
Secrets of The Room Next Door revealed
20/04/2020 … Michael Spicer has signed a book deal thanks to the success of his Room Next Door web series.
© BBC New film looks at 'the man behind the enigma' of Peter Sellers
BBC to air major new documentary
20/04/2020 … BBC Two is to air a documentary to mark the 40th anniversary of the death of Peter Sellers.
New sitcom for Australian comic Kitty Flanagan
Entitled Entitled it's about the entitled
20/04/2020 … Australian comic Kitty Flanagan is making a TV comedy down under about a probate lawyer.
Comedy Women in Print reveals its 2020 longlists
For published and unpublished work
20/04/2020 … The Comedy Women in Print Prize, the literary awards set up by Helen Lederer last year, has unveiled its 2020 longlists.
Sun 19 April 2020
'It's up there with racist jokes'
BBC flooded with complaints over Peter Kay's breastfeeding gag
19/04/2020 … The BBC says it has received 175 complaints over a breastfeeding joke on the new episodes of Peter Kay's Car Share.