Njambi McGrath's memoirs optioned for TV
By the company behind Alma's Not Normal
18/06/2020 … The production company behind Sky One sitcom Intelligence has optioned the rights to comedian Njambi McGrath's memoir, Through The Leopard’s Gaze.
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Thu 18 June 2020
© BBC This Country comes to Dave
...as does sketch show Famalam
18/06/2020 … This Country is to get a new lease of life on Dave.
Jim Davidson: I will never do jokes about black people again
But he calls it 'a sad old day'
18/06/2020 … Jim Davidson has vowed never to make a joke about black people again.
© Damian Bennett Tim Minchin releases a new single today
I’ll Take Lonely Tonight is a 'temptation tug-of-war'
18/06/2020 … Tim Minchin has today released his new single, I’ll Take Lonely Tonight.
Chris D'Elia denies pursuing underage girls
But he admits 'I was a dumb guy... I will do better'
18/06/2020 … American comedian Chris D’Elia has denied pursuing underage girls and soliciting naked photographs.
Wed 17 June 2020
How hard has the comedy industry been hit by coronvirus?
New survey hopes to find the answers
17/06/2020 … A newly-formed lobby group is trying to determine the full extent of the financial damage the Covid-19 lockdown has wreaked on the comedy industry.
© UKTV Taskmaster UK heads to America
The CW network snaps up the rights
17/06/2020 … Taskmaster is to air in the US.
Netflix pulls more comedies over blackface
It's Always Sunny...and Bob and David dropped
17/06/2020 … Netflix has removed more comedy shows because of blackface.