A tight 5: January 14

THE cast of Friends are to reunite for a one-off American TV special honouring legendary sitcom director James Burrows. Courteney Cox, Jennifer Aniston, Lisa Kudrow, Matthew Perry, Matt LeBlanc and David Schwimmer will all take part in the NBC show on February 21... but they are unlikely to all be in the same room at the same time, the network has admitted.

DANIEL KITSON has announced a run of work-in-progress gigs at Nottingham. He will host six early evening Sunday shows with a guest, starting this weekend. Tickets go on sale here at noon. He also told subscribers to his newsletter that he will announce a small tour of the film of his show It's Always Right Now, Until It's Later next week.

THE paperback edition of Bridge Christie's A Book For Her will be released on Arrow Books on February 25. Preorder here, or read our review of the hardback edition, released last July, here

COMEDY Central are recruiting a new head of development to spot new talent and expand its programming slate. Click here for the job description and to apply.

Bill Bailey has added another date at London's Hammersmith Apollo to his spring tour of Limboland. Tickets for the show on July 1 went on sale at 10am today. Buy

Published: 14 Jan 2016