A tight 5: February 5

STEVE COOGAN met Pope Francis in Rome today. He was there with Philomena Lee, whose story of a search for her son after she was sent to a convent for being an 'fallen women' inspired his Oscar-nominated film Philomena.Ms Lee said: 'I have always put great faith in the church and the good will to put the wrongs of the past right.'

MODERN FAMILY, Glee, Orange Is The New Black, Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Please Like Me, a sitcom from Australian comic Josh Thomas, have all been nominated in the comedy category of the GLAAD media awards, which celebrate the portrayal of LGBT characters on screen.

AMERICAN cable channel TBS is to launch a comedy talent hunt, to be hosted by Marlon Wayans with other members of his family. The eight-part Funniest Wins, expected to launch this summer, will pitch different amateur comedians against each other each week. It has previously been announced that NBC's comedy talent hunt Last Comic Standing is also returning this summer.

IRISH stand-up Bernard O'Shea is to be the new breakfast show host on RTÉ 2fm, the state broadcaster has announced.

THE only known novella by Charlie Chaplin has been published, 66 years after it was written. Footlights, the basis for his 1952 film Limelight, has been pieced together by Chaplin's biographer, David Robinson from drafts found at the Chaplin archive at Bologna in Italy. It tells the story of a clown who saves a dancer from suicide, despite his own painful insecurity about the success of being funny. Buy

Published: 5 Feb 2014