© Google Maps Aberdeen could get a new comedy club
Council approves plans for 80-seat venue
15/09/2023 … Aberdeen looks set to get a new comedy club after the local council approved plans for an 80-seat venue.
2023 News
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Fri 15 September 2023
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© UKTV Fourth series for Mel Giedroyc: Unforgivable
And sidekick Lou Sanders will hit the road for new episodes
15/09/2023 … Mel Giedroyc’s panel show Unforgivable has been renewed for a fourth series, with Lou Sanders returning as her sidekick.
Thu 14 September 2023
ITV renews Joel Dommett's In With A Shout
14/09/2023 … ITV has ordered a second series of Joel Dommett game show In With A Shout.
Maddy Anholt dies at 35
Comic had an aggressive brain cancer, and leaves a one-year-old daughter
14/09/2023 … Comedian Maddy Anholt has died at the age of 35.
© Iain Masterton / Alamy Stock Photo Graham Linehan writes a book about being 'cancelled'
Sitcom creator on 'how it feels to lose everything’
14/09/2023 … Graham Linehan has written a book about how he has ‘lost everything’ in his battles against those campaigning for transgender rights.
First look at Zoe Lyons in Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins
Channel 4 releases trailer for gruelling reality show
14/09/2023 … Zoe Lyons is seen dancing from a zip wire in the newly-released trailer for Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins.
Wed 13 September 2023
Paul Whitehouse announces fishing book tour
With his co-author John Bailey
13/09/2023 … UPDATE: THIS TOUR WAS CANCELLED ABOUT A MONTH AFTER THIS ANNOUNCEMENT Paul Whitehouse is to go on tour, talking about fishing.
© Simon Harries/CC BY-SA 2.0 Bread star Jean Boht dies at 91
Just a month after her husband, the composer Carl Davis
13/09/2023 … Jean Boht, who played Nellie Boswell in 1980s sitcom Bread, has died aged 91.