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Sat 02 March 2019
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Questions over the 'new comic' who claimed the circuit was a hotbed of hate speech
01/03/2019 … Doubts have been cast on the identity of a writer who claimed that the UK comedy circuit was a hotbed of ‘actual hate speech’.
© Trevor Leighton New ITV drama for Dawn French
01/03/2019 … Dawn French is to star in a new ITV drama about the nosy resident of a small coastal town.
Thu 28 February 2019
© BBC Ardal O'Hanlon to make two more series of Death In Paradise
BBC recommissions detective show
28/02/2019 … Ardal O’Hanlon is to return for two more series of Death In Paradise, the BBC has announced.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine gets a seventh season
28/02/2019 … US cop comedy Brooklyn Nine-Nine has been renewed for a seventh season.
Comedy 'reviewer' asks stand-up to send dick pix
...and offers an extra star 'for being fit'
28/02/2019 … A comedy reviewer has been accused of online sexual abuse after making unsolicited request to see pictures of a comedian’s genitals.
The Canadian revolution!
Comedians force U-turn over radio plans that would have cost them dear
28/02/2019 … Canadian comedians have forced Montreal’s Just For Laughs festival into a major U-turn over plans that would have robbed them of income.
New dates for Jack Whitehall's 2019 tour
28/02/2019 … Jack Whitehall has announced five extra dates for his 2019 UK and Ireland arena tour.