Comics join BBC Two book show
Guests revealed for Between The Covers
16/03/2021 … Micky Flanagan, Nish Kumar and Rachel Parris are among the comedians taking part in the next series of BBC Two’s book club Between The Covers.
2021 Archives
Tue 16 March 2021
© UKTV Sara Pascoe: The day I lied about having cancer
16/03/2021 … Sara Pascoe has confessed that once faked cancer to get out of work.
© Robert Day Play That Goes Wrong sets its reopening
Back in the West End this summer
16/03/2021 … The Play That Goes Wrong has announced that it will return to London’s Duchess Theatre from June 18.
Adam Kay signs up for more children's books
The next, Kay's Marvellous Medicine, is out this autumn
16/03/2021 … Adam Kay is to write three non-fiction books for children.
© BBC Ellie Taylor to make a second series for Radio 4
Safe Space also features comic Robin Morgan
16/03/2021 … Ellie Taylor is to make a second series of her Radio 4 show Safe Space.
Mon 15 March 2021
One Night Stand by Simon Taylor
Review of novel about a comedian facing a paternity crisis
15/03/2021 … Simon Taylor was a young, jobbing comedian on the Melbourne stand-up scene when a one-night stand led to a paternity scare that forced him to confront a different…
Curtis Pritchard: Sorry for the jokes
Love Island star apologies for his terrible TV stand-up performance
15/03/2021 … Love Island’s Curtis Pritchard has apologised to anyone who was 'offended' by jokes he told on Channel 4's Stand Up & Deliver.
Shaun The Sheep up for an Oscar
Farmageddon nominated for best animated feature
15/03/2021 … Aardman comedy Shaun The Sheep 2: Farmageddon has been nominated for an Oscar.