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13/07/2016 … Greg Davies’s family tree is to be explored in the next series of Who Do You Think You Are? The comedian is one of ten celebrities to feature in the 13th series,…
13/07/2016 … Musical comedian Vikki Stone is joining the BBC Proms team.
Says Montreal's Just For Laughs
12/07/2016 … Aziz Ansari has been named ‘comedy person of the year’ by Montreal’s Just For Laughs festival.
The First Hippo On The Moon set for take-off
12/07/2016 … A second David Walliams children's book is to be adapted for the stage.
Why Bridget Christie's scrapped her original Fringe show
12/07/2016 … Bridget Christie has scrapped her planned Edinburgh show to write about the Brexit vote instead.
CBBC renews geeky kids' sitcom
12/07/2016 … Children’s sitcom So Awkward has been renewed for a third series, before the second has even aired.
Final run of her one-woman show
12/07/2016 … Dawn French, is to bring her one-woman show 30 Million Minutes back to London's West End.
© C4/Ed Miller C4 backs Horgan and Delaney's comedy
12/07/2016 … Channel 4 has ordered TWO more series of Catastrophe.
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