© BBC/House of Tomorrow Philomena Cunk returns!
Christmas special for Diane Morgan's character
22/11/2016 … Philomena Cunk is returning to BBC Two for a Christmas special.
2016 News
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Tue 22 November 2016
© BBC/House of Tomorrow Mon 21 November 2016
Dave Chappelle to release THREE stand-up specials
21/11/2016 … Dave Chappelle is to release three stand-up specials next year – all on Netflix.
Raised by Wolves crowdfunder fails
Caitlin Moran falls £120,000 short of target
21/11/2016 … Caitlin Moran’s bid to crowdfund more episodes of her Channel 4 comedy Raised by Wolves has failed.
© BBC New BBC sitcom for Angus Deayton
Playing a middle-aged man in a houseshare
21/11/2016 … Angus Deayton is to star in a new radio sitcom.
© BBC/Roughcut Sexy Murder gets a bigger release
Rich Fulcher's BBC spoof comes to iPlayer
21/11/2016 … The BBC is re-releasing Sexy Murder, its spoof of true crime series such as Making A Murderer and The Serial podcast, as a single half-hour episode.
© Hungry McBear / BBC Michael McIntyre beats X Factor
21/11/2016 … Michael McIntyre proved more popular than X Factor on Saturday night.
© Home Office / Creative Commons Now Ofcom raps Queen jokes
Fresh censure for Radio 4 panel show
21/11/2016 … The episode of Radio 4 panel show Don’t Make Me Laugh that joked about the Queen’s sex life on her 90th birthday has been rapped by broadcast watchdog…
Filming starts on new Outnumbered
See how the kids have changed in the first new episode for three years
21/11/2016 … Filming has begun on the new Outnumbered Christmas special – the first new episode of the family sitcom in nearly three years.