Still Open All Hours gets a third series
But without Nurse Gladys Emmanuel
12/09/2016 … BBC One has commissioned a third series of Still Open All Hours – but without Lynda Baron as Nurse Gladys Emmanuel.
2016 Archives
Mon 12 September 2016
Judi Dench boosts Victoria Wood statue appeal
12/09/2016 … Dame Judi Dench has donated £1,000 towards the campaign to erect a statue of Victoria Wood in Bury.
Sun 11 September 2016
Comedy Feeds: Pumped
iPlayer review by Steve Bennett
11/09/2016 … Another BBC Comedy Feed, more wank jokes… although Pumped makes a virtue of its puerility, thoroughly embracing its frat-boy humour like a live-action South Park,…
Unseen Charlie Higson and Paul Whitehouse scripts saved
Including the sitcom Bollock Street
11/09/2016 … Charlie Higson’s archive of comedy writing is to be preserved, including scripts that never saw the light of day.
How straight white male line-ups are comedy death
Brendon Burns says clubs need to diversify
11/09/2016 … Yesterday, Chortle reported how Bethany Black was turned down for a gig because the promoter felt there were too many women on the bill.