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Sun 30 June 2019
© UKTV The worrier returns
This week's comedy on TV and radio
30/06/2019 … Pick of the week's comedy on TV and radio: Monday July 1 GET SOME IN: This largely forgotten sitcom about National Service life in the RAF was broadcast…
© Objective/Channel 4 Ban this 'totally sick' comedy scene!
Now Nigel Farage rages against Year Of The Rabbit
30/06/2019 … Nigel Farage is calling on Channel 4 to censor a scene in Matt Berry’s preposterous Victorian-era comedy Year Of The Rabbit which shows a right-wing politician…
Sat 29 June 2019
Carry On movies set for a comeback
...but this time they'll be politically correct
29/06/2019 … The Carry On film franchise could be revived after 27 years following a trademark battle – but this time the comedies will be ‘politically correct’.
Andrew Hunter Murray sells his novel's film rights
29/06/2019 … Andrew Hunter Murray has signed a deal for the TV and film rights for his debut novel said to be in the ‘high six figures’.
Fri 28 June 2019
BBC orders a dark comedy about a teen and her mentally ill mum
In My Skin picked up after a 2018 pilot
28/06/2019 … The BBC has commissioned a new dark comedy series about a teenage girl whose mother has been sectioned in a mental facility.
Former Jongleurs boss struck off
Mario Lourides's 'deplorable' £20million scam discredited the accountancy profession
28/06/2019 … Mario Lourides, the crooked former boss of the Jongleurs comedy club chain, has been drummed out of his professional body.