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© UKTV 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.
14/09/2023 … ITV has ordered a second series of Joel Dommett game show In With A Shout.
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 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.
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.
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 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.
13/09/2023 … The finalists for this year’s Funny Women stage award have been announced.
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