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'In your faces, white boy UK comics'
18/02/2021 … Gina Yashere’s US comedy Bob Hearts Abishola has been renewed for a third series.
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Thu 18 February 2021
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David Tennant up for acting award - but co-star Michael Sheen isn't
18/02/2021 … David Tennant has been nominated for an award for his role in BBC One's Staged – but his opposite number Michael Sheen has missed out.
Romesh Ranganathan goes vaccine mythbusting
Celebs tape video urging take-up of Covid jab
18/02/2021 … Romesh Ranganathan, Meera Syal, Sanjeev Bhaskar and Adil Ray are among the celebrities fronting a new video campaign to encourage minority groups to take up the…
© BBC David Mitchell and Helena Bonham Carter join The Cleaner
Shooting under way on Greg Davies sitcom
18/02/2021 … Helena Bonham Carter, David Mitchell and Stephanie Cole have joined the cast of Greg Davies’s new BBC One comedy The Cleaner.
Alice Levine goes on a Sex Odyssey
C4 series for My Dad Wrote A Porno podcaster
18/02/2021 … She has been talking about bad sex for years as a co-creator of the comedy podcast My Dad Wrote A Porno.
Frank Skinner to release a prayer book
18/02/2021 … Frank Skinner has written a book of prayers, to be published in April.
Wed 17 February 2021
Just For Laughs to stream its industry insider sessions
Montreal's festival-within-a-festival goes virtual
17/02/2021 … Montreal’s Just For Laughs festival will stream all its industry sessions online this year.
Tue 16 February 2021
Whoopi Goldberg drops out of Sister Act
16/02/2021 … Whoopi Goldberg has pulled out of the London stage version of her musical Sister Act, after it was postponed for a second time.