© BBC Dad's Army gets a blue plaque
...at the hotel where cast used to stay
12/06/2018 … Dad's Army is to be commemorated with a blue plaque at the pub where cast and crew stayed while filming on location.
2018 Archives
Tue 12 June 2018
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Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing trailer
12/06/2018 … BBC Two has just released the first trailer for Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing.
New Netflix series for Jimmy Carr and Katherine Ryan
Panel show to fix the world's problems
12/06/2018 … Jimmy Carr and Katherine Ryan are to star in a new comedy panel show for Netflix.
Will he get the shirt kicked out of him?
Scot Squad creator vows to wear England shirt in Glasgow if he sells enough Fringe tickets
12/06/2018 … The creator of Scot Squad has vowed to wear an England shirt in Glasgow every day of the World Cup – if he sells enough tickets to his Edinburgh Fringe…
Queen honours Melbourne Comedy Fest chief
Susan Provan made an Officer of the Order Of Australia
12/06/2018 … Melbourne comedy festival boss Susan Provan has said she is ‘proud’ that the artform has been recognised after being honoured by the Queen.
Dani Dyer to appear in a horror film about a stand-up
...alongside Clark Gable's grandson as a heckler
12/06/2018 … Love Island’s Dani Dyer is to appear in a new horror film about a stand-up comedian stalked by a fiendish heckler.
What was the name of Rik Mayall's World Cup song?
12/06/2018 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly trivia quiz - compiled, as always by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
Channel 4 picks up Joe Lycett's Got Your Back
Six episodes of his consumer affairs show ordered
12/06/2018 … Channel 4 has commissioned a full series of Joe Lycett’s Got Your Back after a successful pilot of the comedy consumer affairs show.