
Emma Thompson joins Matilda movie
Alongside Lashana Lynch and newcomer Alisha Weir
15/01/2021 … Emma Thompson is to play Miss Trunchbull in the screen version of Tim Minchin’s Matilda, it was announced last night.
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Alongside Lashana Lynch and newcomer Alisha Weir
15/01/2021 … Emma Thompson is to play Miss Trunchbull in the screen version of Tim Minchin’s Matilda, it was announced last night.
14/01/2021 … Blackadder has become the latest classic BBC comedy to warrant a warning over its content.
14/01/2021 … Adam Hills is writing his first children's book - about a rock-star detective.
'Hate crime' complaints dismissed
14/01/2021 … Police are to take no further action against Sophie Duker over her ‘kill whitey’ joke on Frankie Boyle’s New World Order.
Part of a new two-hour documentary
14/01/2021 … Never-before-seen rehearsal footage from the Vicar Of Dibley is to be broadcast in a new documentary about the sitcom.
Actress played student Tammy Metlzer
14/01/2021 … Jessica Campbell, who starred in the 1999 black comedy Election has died at the age of 38.
Documentary to mark ten years of the sitcom, as producer says no more episodes are planned
14/01/2021 … Channel 4 is to celebrate a decade of Friday Night Dinner – after it was revealed that the long-running sitcom will probably not return.
Standing in for Steph McGovern
14/01/2021 … Bill Bailey is to make his live TV presenting debut tomorrow, standing in for Steph McGovern.
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