Jack Dee to host Tony Hancock documentary
As original sitcom episodes are colourised
29/09/2022 … Jack Dee is to front a two-hour retrospective documentary celebrating the work of Tony Hancock.
2022 News
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Thu 29 September 2022
© UNclimatechange/CC BY-SA 2.0 Sean Penn to star in ITV comedy
About soldiers who become celebrities after they are taken hostage
29/09/2022 … Sean Penn is to star in a new ITV comedy about a group of soldiers taken hostage.
© BBC BBC to adapt David Walliams' Gangsta Granny Strikes Again!
Sequel to its 2013 family comedy
29/09/2022 … The BBC is to adapt David Walliams’s children’s book Gangsta Granny Strikes Again! for TV.
Channel 4 to air the Black British Takeover
Mo Gilligan's stand-up showcase recorded at The O2
29/09/2022 … Channel 4 is to air the live stand-up comedy showcase Mo Gilligan + Friends: The Black British Takeover which was filmed at The O2 in London last December.
Jack Whitehall to launch his first podcast
Safe Space with comedy writer James Serafinowicz
29/09/2022 … Jack Whitehall is to host his first ever podcast, all about awkward moments and embarrassment.
Wed 28 September 2022
© Sky Kids Ardal O’Hanlon to play The Ghastly Ghoul
New animated show for Sky Kids
28/09/2022 … Ardal O’Hanlon is to voice a cute monster in a new animated Halloween show for Sky Kids.
© BBC Fresh health scare for Bob Mortimer
Comic tells Richard Herring 'I'm not well' following new hospital stay
28/09/2022 … Bob Mortimer has had another health scare, revealing that he ended up in hospital at the weekend.
Edinburgh Fringe Society vows: 'We're listening'
Feedback exercise following festival criticisms
28/09/2022 … Organisers of the Edinburgh Fringe are embarking on their biggest survey of participants ‘in years’ in the face of increasing concern about the cost…