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© Paul Rider 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.
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 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…
© Gary Knight / Creative Commons Lolly Adefope could play Diane Abbott
21/01/2016 … A comedy musical about Jeremy Corbyn is to hit London later this year.
21/01/2016 … Philomena Cunk has been given her own show – about Shakespeare.
And she's ready to take a lie detector test
21/01/2016 … Amy Schumer has promised to take a lie detector test to show that she hasn’t stolen jokes.
Playing Wonder Woman in one skecth
21/01/2016 … Kelly Brook is to appear in the planned new Keith Lemon and Paddy McGuinness sketch show.
Central England's top comics and clubs honoured
20/01/2016 … Stand-ups Tom Binns and Barry Dodds have taken home top accolades at tonight's Midlands Comedy Awards.
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