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© UKTV UPDATE: Exactly how Harry Deansway claims producers stole his idea
21/06/2023 … Stand-up Harry Deansway has launched a legal action, claiming that Dave’s Live At The Moth Club ripped off his idea.
...and outside of Black History Month for the first time
21/06/2023 … ITV has ordered a fourth series of Sorry I Didn’t Know its panel show about black history.
20/06/2023 … Micky Flanagan has a broken a record, for cramming a bigger audience into London’s O2 Arena than anybody else.
Chortle backs new scheme for aspiring journalists
20/06/2023 … Fancy yourself as a comedy reviewer? Chortle is taking part in a new scheme to encourage aspiring arts journalists at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe.
© BBC Marjory Frobisher in To The Manor Born
20/06/2023 … Angela Thorne, who played Marjory Frobisher in the BBC sitcom To The Manor Born, has died aged 84.
As do Gimme Gimme Gimme and Mister Winner.
20/06/2023 … Every episode of Red Dwarf has been added to BBC iPlayer – along with Kathy Burke sitcom Gimme Gimme Gimme and Spencer Jones’s Mister Winner.
See Keith Lemon, Avid Merrion and Myrtle in the flesh (or latex)
19/06/2023 … Leigh Francis has announced his first ever live tour, following ITV’s cancellation of Celebrity Juice after 14 years.
No more series of David Tennant and Michael Sheen comedy
19/06/2023 … David Tennant and Michael Sheen comedy Staged has ended after three series.
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