A tight 5: May 9

Jon Richardson is recording a pilot show for Channel 4 about odd questions asked on internet search engines. Jon Richardson’s Unpredictable will be recorded in front of a studio audience next Thursday. See our free tickets page to watch it being taped.

KAREN GILLAN’s American sitcom Selfie has been picked up for a full series by the ABC network. In the show, described as a modern-day Pygmalion, the former Dr Who star plays Eliza Dooley, who pays more attention to her online presence than real life. The series also stars Homeland's David Harewood.

COMEDIANS including Mark Watson, Richard Herring and Jenny Eclair are to perform in a London venue shaped like a giant bowler hat this summer. The venue will be erected in Paternoster Square, next to St Paul's Cathedral, for the City Of London festival which runs from June 22 to July 17. Listings.

GRAHAM NORTON earned £2.3million in fees and salary last year, a 10 per cent fall on 2012, according to new accounts. Norton was paid the amount for ‘presenter fees, production fees and royalties’ from his production company So Television in the year to July 2013.

ENTRIES have opened for a new stand-up competition… which offers as a prize a hefty supply of Nando’s. The chicken chain is offering £500 in vouchers to the winner of its New Comedian of the Year 2014, who will crowned at a final at the Edinburgh Fringe, following heats in Glasgow and the north of England starting in June. Entrants must not have an agent and have been gigging for between one and three years. Apply here.

Published: 9 May 2014