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© BBC/Baby Cow Unseen Alan Partridge footage in new BBC documentary
28/11/2017 … The BBC is to mark the return of Alan Partridge with a documentary about the character’s rise featuring archive footage never previously broadcast.
Doodlebugs launches as part of BBC One's Christmas line-up
28/11/2017 … Comics including Kayvan Novak, Morgana Robinson, Spencer Jones and the Cardinal Burns duo are to give voices to everday objects in a new animated sketch show.
Satirist too busy on other shows
27/11/2017 … Charlie Brooker will not be making a 2017 Wipe, he has announced.
...about that tricky Irish border issue
27/11/2017 … The BBC is making a Brexit sitcom about the controversy surrounding the Irish border.
Barry Castagnola vows never to use it again
27/11/2017 … Stand-up Barry Castagnola has apologised for making a joke comparing himself to ‘Daniel Craig with Down’s Syndrome’.
Selling more than his last release
27/11/2017 … Micky Flangan’s new release has entered the DVD charts at No 3.
© Petr Novák / Creative Commons Secret project was filmed in the Caribbean this summer
27/11/2017 … Chris Morris's new film stars Anna Kendrick and was shot in the Caribbean and US, Chortle can reveal.
© BBC 27/11/2017 … Sketch series Class Dismissed won a children’s Bafta award.
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