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© Thomas Laisne In drama about his landmark interview with Margaret Thatcher
17/06/2024 … Steve Coogan is to play heavyweight political interviewer Brian Walden in a dramatisation of a watershed encounter he had with Margaret Thatcher.
First airing in almost 70 years
17/06/2024 … Three lost Hancock’s Half Hour episodes, are to get a public outing for the first time since they were televised almost 70 years ago.
The week's best comedy on TV, radio and streaming
16/06/2024 … Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week…: Now JOHN HASTINGS: THE TIMES THEY ARE A JOHN HASTINGS: The first of three specials the…
16/06/2024 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the thousands of events Chortle currently has listed.
We'll believe it when we see it...
16/06/2024 … New claims have been made that the Carry On film franchise will be revived.
15/06/2024 … Katherine Ryan is to become a judge on the next series of Canada’s Got Talent.
West End impresario has her honour upgraded
14/06/2024 … Nica Burns, the West End theatre owner who runs the Edinburgh Comedy Awards has been made a CBE in the King’s Birthday Honours.
Sponsorship deal ends after artists' boycott
14/06/2024 … Latitude and Barclaycard have dropped their sponsorship arrangement following a backlash from comedians and musicians.
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