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2017 Archives
Sat 21 January 2017
© Channel 4/Big Talk Raised By Wolves USA picked up for pilot
ABC remakes Caitlin Moran’s C4 show
21/01/2017 … The American remake of Raised By Wolves has moved a major step closer to the screen.
Did Donald Trump REALLY quote the Bee Movie?
Inauguration speech meme sets internet buzzing
21/01/2017 … Reports that Donald Trump plagiarised Jerry Seinfeld’s Bee Movie for his inauguration speech appear to be fake news.
Ed Byrne aids stricken hillwaker
'It's not a tale of derring-do,' says comic
21/01/2017 … Ed Byrne has helped an injured hillwalker to safety during a hike in the Cairngorms.
Fri 20 January 2017
Mr Swallow makes his TV debut
...as we reveal the next batch of Sky comedy shorts
20/01/2017 … Nick Mohammed's Mr Swallow and Colin Hoult's character Anna Mann are to make their first television appearances in Sky’s next series of comedy films, Chortle can…
© BBC Angus Deayton's new presenting job
Great British Bake Off spin-off
20/01/2017 … Angus Deayton is to host Great British Bake Off spin-off Creme de la Creme.
One comic's already profiting from Trump's presidency
20/01/2017 … • ’Looking forward to Trump’s assassi… inauguration.
© Kyle Cassidy/Creative Commons BBC to make Gaiman and Pratchett's Good Omens
'It feels like a good time for a comedy about impending global apocalypse'
20/01/2017 … The BBC is to make a six-part comedy series based on Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s fantasy novel Good Omens.