This Country's Martin Mucklowe goes on tour
06/05/2021 … The father of Charlie and Daisy May Cooper is to tour with a live show based on his character in This Country.
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Thu 06 May 2021
Call My Agent's UK cast revealed
Including Lydia Leonard, Jim Broadbent and Rebecca Humphries
06/05/2021 … The core cast has been revealed for the UK remake of Call My Agent.
Handforth Parish Council's Jackie Weaver launches comedy podcast
With stand-ups among her guuests
06/05/2021 … Jackie Weaver, of Handforth Parish Council fame, is launching a comedy podcast.
Filming starts on Alma’s Not Normal
Sophie Willan's comedy being shot in Bolton and Manchester
06/05/2021 … Filming has started on the full series of Sophie Willan’s BBC comedy Alma’s Not Normal.
Wed 05 May 2021
© C4/Plum Pictures Johnny Vegas's glampsite is open for business
Where is the campsite, and can I book a vintage vehicle?
05/05/2021 … Johnny Vegas’s camper van site is open for business.
Comedians take on British stereotypes in new travelogue
Fern Brady, Darren Harriott and Ivo Graham star in British As Folk
05/05/2021 … Comics Fern Brady, Darren Harriott and Ivo Graham are to offer a ‘brutally honest’ guide to the UK’ in a new travelogue.
Rhys Thomas and Lucy Montgomery pen a Dickensian comedy-drama
Comics also star in Dodger, out next year
05/05/2021 … Comics Rhys Thomas and Lucy Montgomery are writing a new comedy-drama about the Artful Dodger’s life before meeting Oliver Twist.
The Horne Section return to BBC One
Alex Horne's outfit to be the house band on Crouchy’s Year Late Euros
05/05/2021 … Alex Horne is to star alongside Peter Crouch and Maya Jama in a new BBC One show tied in with this year’s postponed Euro football tournaments.