Edinburgh Fringe loses funding
Creative Scotland pulls hundreds of thousands of pounds
25/01/2018 … The body that oversees the Edinburgh Fringe has been stripped of hundreds of thousands of pounds of funding.
2018 Archives
Thu 25 January 2018
Call me Dr Reg...
Hunter picks up an honorary degree from Lincoln
25/01/2018 … Reginald D Hunter has been made an honorary doctor by the University of Lincoln.
Bringing a Morecambe and Wise film back to life
The painstaking way a lost episode is being recovered
25/01/2018 … BBC archivists have described the painstaking process of restoring a previously lost 50-year-old episode of Morecambe and Wise.
© BBC/Colin Hutton Kenneth Branagh and Lily Cole join Upstart Crow
As do Adrian Edmondson and Nigel Planer
25/01/2018 … Kenneth Branagh, Lily Cole and Young Ones stars Adrian Edmondson and Nigel Planer are to appear in the next series of Upstart Crow.
Radio 1 orders a raft of new comedy
25/01/2018 … Radio 1 is to put comedy back on the station after more than a decade – but in a 3am slot.
© BBC Guz Khan becomes a real road man
Comic lands role in new Sky driving thriller
25/01/2018 … Man Like Mobeen star Guz Khan has landed a role in Sky One’s new Fast-And-The-Furious-style drama.
Baby Jack...
Young Whitehall promotes Amused Moose competition
25/01/2018 … Here’s a very fresh-faced Jack Whitehall – pictured 11 years ago when he won the Amused Moose comedy award.
Man charged over comedy club attack
...as venue blames comic for inflaming the situation
25/01/2018 … Police have arrested the man they think launched a savage attack on comedian Steve Brown at a US comedy club this weekend.