Iain Stirling to star in ITV2 sitcom
He co-wrote Buffering with fellow comic Steve Bugeja
29/11/2019 … Iain Stirling is making a sitcom for ITV2, Chortle can reveal.
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Fri 29 November 2019
© BBC Jeremy Hardy's best writing to be published
On the first anniversary of his death
29/11/2019 … Some of Jeremy Hardy’s best writing is to be published in a new anthology.
Is The Simpsons coming to an end?
Not according to its showrunner
29/11/2019 … The Simpsons is NOT coming to an end, its long-serving showrunner has insisted.
Thu 28 November 2019
Mel and Sue reveal their Hitmen co-stars
Including Nick Mohammed, Sian Clifford, Asim Chaudhry and Jason Watkins
28/11/2019 … Nick Mohammed, Fleabag’s Sian Clifford and Chabuddy G star Asim Chaudhry a have joined the cast of Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins’s new comedy Hitmen.
Jack Whitehall to host the Brits yet again
28/11/2019 … Jack Whitehall is to host the Brit awards for third year running, it was announced today.
First look at People Just Do Nothing: Big In Japan
Picture from the movie being filmed in Tokyo
28/11/2019 … Producers of the People Just Do Nothing movie have release the first official photograph of the Kurupt FM team filming in Japan.
Prosecutors drop their case against Al Porter
'I have always denied any wrongdoing'
28/11/2019 … Irish prosecutors have dropped their sexual assault case against comedian Al Porter.
Wed 27 November 2019
Clive James dies at 80
Witty TV critic succumbs after ten years of illness
27/11/2019 … Clive James has died aged 80, ten years after being diagnosed with leukaemia and lung disease.