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© Ian West/PA News/Alamy Pair will play siblings in show called The Choir
08/09/2025 … James Corden and Ruth Jones’s new Apple TV show is to be called The Choir.
© UKTV/Gareth Gatrell Writer Doug Naylor reveals he was told to stop work in the script
08/09/2025 … Plans for another 90-minute Red Dwarf special have been quietly dropped, writer Doug Naylor has revealed.
© Patrick Olner How to get free tickets for the Bradford climax
08/09/2025 … The BBC has announced that the final of its 2025 New Comedy Awards will be taking place at Bradford’s Alhambra Theatre on October 17.
Huge raft of new shows, pilots, stand-up specials and recommissions announced
08/09/2025 … Radio 4 has announced a new slate of comedy commissions from Omid Djalili, Kiri Pritchard-McLean, Alistair Green, Slim, Ayoade Bamgboye and Pierre Novellie and more.
The best of the week's live comedy
07/09/2025 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the 7,006 events Chortle currently has listed.
© Channel 4/Avalon The best of the week's comedy on TV, radio and on demand
07/09/2025 … Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week…: Monday September 8 PETER SELLERS AT SEA: On what would have been the 100th birthday of…
© Iain Masterton / Alamy Stock Photo Crowdfunder raises £150,000 for his lawyers' fees
07/09/2025 … Graham Linehan has returned to X after the Free Speech Union campaigned to have his bail conditions loosened.
© Ian West/PA News/Alamy Bid to recreate the Gavin & Stacey magic
06/09/2025 … Gavin & Stacey creators James Corden and Ruth Jones are reportedly working on a new comedy-drama for Apple TV+.
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