© BBC BBC axes Porridge
Reboot struggled to find an audience
22/02/2018 … The reboot of Porridge has been axed after just one series.
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Thu 22 February 2018
© BBC 
Rosehaven gets a third series
Australia's ABC renews Luke McGregor and Celia Pacquola comedy
22/02/2018 … Australian broadcaster ABC has ordered a third series of small-town comedy Rosehaven, starring stand-ups Luke McGregor and Celia Pacquola.
Wed 21 February 2018
Cleared: A joke about Prince Charles's foreskin
Comic's gag was referred to TV watchdogs
21/02/2018 … It’s OK to make a joke about Prince Charles’s foreskin in a PG-rated programme, Australian TV watchdogs have ruled.
© Mark Bourdillon / Channel 4 Television When is the Great British Bake Off back?
Harry Hill and Roisin Conaty in first celebrity special
21/02/2018 … Harry Hill and Roisin Conaty are to appear in the first of The Great British Bake Off celebrity specials.
© UKTV Taskmaster gets FOUR new series
And full line-up revealed for season six
21/02/2018 … UKTV has ordered four more series of Taskmaster for Dave.
© C4 Derry Girls is a record-breaker
C4 comedy is biggest hit in Northern Ireland in modern times
21/02/2018 … Derry Girls has become one of the biggest ratings hits in Northern Ireland since modern records began in 2002.
New poems and a memoir from John Cooper Clarke
First collection of verses in 37 years
21/02/2018 … John Cooper Clarke is to publish his first poetry collection in 37 years – as well as an autobiography revealing his ‘extraordinary life’.
Comics do car boot sales
21/02/2018 … Zoe Lyons and Helen Lederer are to empty their closets and attics for a celebrity boot sale show.