© BBC BBC comedy loses its second exec this week
Ben Farrell goes back to indie Objective
22/01/2016 … The BBC’s in-house comedy department has lost its second executive in a week.
Fri 22 January 2016
© BBC 
Legal victory for Bill Cosby
22/01/2016 … Bill Cosby has won a legal victory in his battle against a flurry of sexual abuse allegations.
© Paul Rider Robbie Coltrane to play sex-case comedian
Yewtree-inspired drama for Channel 4
22/01/2016 … Robbie Coltrane is to play a fading comedian caught up in an Operation Yewtree-style police operation into historic sex crimes.
Thu 21 January 2016
Morgan & West: Parlour Tricks
21/01/2016 … The setting couldn’t be better for a couple of Victorian time-travelling magicians; the elegantly restored Wilton’s music hall near Tower Bridge, steeped in…
Who's coming to Successville?
Emma Bunton and Vicky Pattison play detective
21/01/2016 … Former Spice Girl Emma Bunton and Queen of the Jungle Vicky Pattison are to play detective in the next series of Murder In Successville.
© Richard Davenport Book deal for Fake It Til You Make It duo
Bryony Kimmings and Tim Grayburn return to male depression
21/01/2016 … Bryony Kimmings and Tim Grayburn – whose comic-theatre show about depression Fake It 'Til You Make It was a fringe hit last year – have signed…