Leicester Comedy Festival vows 2021 event will go ahead
...but some of it will be virtual
30/07/2020 … The producers of the Leicester Comedy Festival have vowed that next year’s event will go ahead.
Thu 30 July 2020
© Trevor Leighton Dawn French writes her fourth novel
30/07/2020 … Dawn French is releasing her first new novel in five years.
Wed 29 July 2020
© C4 First official Derry Girls book to be published
29/07/2020 … Derry Girls writer Lisa McGee has penned an official spin-off book to be published this autumn.
Comedy writer Tasha Dhanraj dubbed 'one to watch'
Accolade from Edinburgh TV Festival
29/07/2020 … Comedy writer Tasha Dhanraj has been named 'one to watch' by the Edinburgh TV Festival.
Full line-up revealed for Edinburgh Fringe audiobook
29/07/2020 … The full line-up of comedians has been announced the Edinburgh Unlocked audiobook, which aims to offer a taste of the cancelled Fringe.
© C4 Revealed: Taskmaster Series 10 contestants
Daisy May Cooper, Katherine Parkinson, Johnny Vegas, Mawaan Rizwan and Richard Herring
29/07/2020 … The line-up has been unveiled for the next series of Taskmaster, which will launch on its new home on Channel 4 this autumn.
Michael Palin joins The Simpsons
Other guest stars will include Olivia Colman and Hannibal Buress
29/07/2020 … Michael Palin is to appear on The Simpsons.
BBC podcast for Alison Spittle and Fern Brady
With the 'most embarrassing and bleak anecdotes'
29/07/2020 … Alison Spittle and Fern Brady are to host a new podcast for BBC Sounds.