A tight 5: December 5

ANDY PARSONS has announced a new 2017 stand-up tour. A total of 50 dates have been scheduled for his Peak Bullsh*t show, starting in Chipping Norton on February 15 and ending in Bangor at the end of May.  Click for schedule. Last year, Parsons quit Mock The Week to concentrate on live work, including his topical monthly podcast, The Slacktivist Action Group. 

COMEDIAN Zoe Coombs Marr has been shortlisted for a literary award in her native Australia. Her live show Trigger Warning, in which she has an existentialist battle with her alter-ego Dave, an old-school sexist comedian, is one of 21 works up for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, worth $25,000 (£15,000). She already won the Melbourne comedy festival’s top prize, The Barry Award, for the show.

BBC One has confirmed that Lee Mack’s sitcom Not Going Out is returning in the second week of January. As announced in the summer, the new eighth series fast-forwards seven years from the end of the last, and now Lee and Lucy (Sally Bretton) are parents of three young children. After ten years, Not Going Out is now the longest running BBC sitcom still on air.

AN AUDIENCE of 10.5million people saw Joel Dommett come runner-up to Scarlett Moffatt in I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here last night, almost 1million viewers up on last year’s finale. 

ALICE Drummond, who played the librarian in the original 1984 Ghostbusters film, has died at the age of 88.

Published: 5 Dec 2016