Aziz Ansari announces UK and Ireland dates
Part of his first tour since the #metoo controversy
15/01/2019 … Aziz Ansari has announced four dates in London, Manchester and Dublin later this year.
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Mon 14 January 2019
Writers Guild honours the best storytellers of 2018
Including Sarah Kendall and Mackenzie Crook
14/01/2019 … Sarah Kendall, Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Mackenzie Crook have all bee honoured at tonight Writers’ Guild of Great Britain awards.
© Netflix Revealed: Cast and first images from Ricky Gervais's Afterlife
New comedy coming to Netflix on March
14/01/2019 … Ricky Gervais’s new comedy series AfterLife will launch globally on March 8, Netflix has announced.
Stan & Ollie tops UK box office
Nudging The Favourite into second place
14/01/2019 … Stan & Ollie has topped the box office charts in UK cinemas in its opening weekend.
Rick and Morty comes to Channel 4
Broadcaster snaps up hundreds of hours of Adult Swim programmes
14/01/2019 … Animated comedy Rick and Morty is coming to free-to-air television in the UK for the first time.
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is the Critics' Choice – again
14/01/2019 … The Marvelous Mrs.
...And so I got on the bus
Comedians to act as coach tour guides in new Comedy Central series
14/01/2019 … Joel Dommett, Iain Stirling, Tom Allen, Suzi Ruffell, Darren Harriott and Kiri Pritchard-McLean are all going on a bus trip back to their hometowns for a new Comedy…
Sun 13 January 2019
© Petr Novák / Creative Commons Chris Morris returns to satirising the war on terror
The Day Shall Come coming soon
13/01/2019 … Chris Morris's new film, The Day Shall Come, revisits Four Lions's satire on the war on terrorism and draws upon the life of Malcolm X, Chortle can reveal.