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Top comics stage UK-wide benefits to aid refugees
09/02/2017 … Top comedians including Sarah Millican, Jason Manford, Joe Lycett and Ed Byrne are to take part in a nationwide series of benefit gigs to aid refugees.
2017 Archives
Thu 09 February 2017
Young Frankenstein's West End run confirmed
As Bafta awards Mel Brooks a fellowship
09/02/2017 … The musical version of Mel Brooks’s Young Frankenstein is to open in the West End on September 28, it has been announced.
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Jon Richardson on his many fears
09/02/2017 … Jon Richardson is to present a new Channel 4 show entitled How to Survive the End of the World along with his wife, Lucy Beaumont.
Sky orders a second Delicious course
09/02/2017 … Sky 1 has ordered a second series of Dawn French’s love-triangle drama Delicious.
Jack Whitehall becomes an action hero
09/02/2017 … Jack Whitehall is to become an action hero in a new Sky 1 comedy, Bounty Hunters.