Comedians announced for Dating No Filter
Line-up revealed for new Sky format
29/01/2021 … Comedians including Daisy May Cooper, Joel Dommett, Judi Love and Tom Allen are to provide the voiceover on Sky’s new dating show Dating No Filter.
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Fri 29 January 2021
Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders to celebrate female comics
Duo to front Funny Women show for the Gold channel
29/01/2021 … Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders are to front a new one-off show to address the question: ‘Are women funny?’ Filmed on the set of their sketch show, …
Thu 28 January 2021
Comedians to enter the Bake-Off tent
Celebs announced for next charity series
28/01/2021 … Katherine Ryan, Tom Allen, David Baddiel and Reece Shearsmith, Rob Beckett and John Bishop are among the stars taking part in this year’s Great Celebrity…
Patrick Kielty to star in his first movie
...as a budding stand-up comedian!
28/01/2021 … Patrick Kielty is to draw on his stand-up roots in a new comedy movie set in Northern Ireland.
Sanjeev Bhaskar and Asim Chaudhry join Netflix's The Sandman
Adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s comic book series
28/01/2021 … Sanjeev Bhaskar and People Just Do Nothing star Asim Chaudhry have been cast in new Netflix drama The Sandman.
Shrill to end after third series
End of the road for Aidy Bryant and Lolly Adefope sitcom
28/01/2021 … Shrill, the US sitcom starring Aidy Bryant and Lolly Adefope, is to end after its third series.
© Gage Skidmore/CC BY-SA 3.0 Seth Rogen writes a book
'True stories that I desperately hope are funny'
28/01/2021 … Seth Rogen has written a book of essays about growing up, fitting in and standing out.
Young Frankenstein star Cloris Leachman dies at 94
Tributes to 'insanely talented' actress
28/01/2021 … Cloris Leachman, who played the Transylvanian housekeeper Frau Blücher in Young Frankenstein has died at the age of 94.