Cheerful Earful podcast festival to return
Plus news of other new podcasts
18/06/2024 … Comedy podcast festival Cheerful Earful is to return to London from October 12 to 20.
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Tue 18 June 2024
© Eduardo Unda-Sanzana/CC BY-SA 2.0 Eric Idle to tour the US
18/06/2024 … Eric Idle is going on a US comedy tour this autumn, entitled Always Look on the Bright Side of Life Live! The show will reportedly feature ‘never-before-seen…
Count Binface to go on a comedy tour
Could it be a post-election victory lap?
18/06/2024 … Count Binface – who’s standing against Rishi Sunak in the general election – is to go on a comedy tour once the campaign is over.
© BBC/Monumental Pictures/Guido Mandozzi Ghosts creators write a behind-the-scenes guide
Second spin-off book from hit BBC sitcom
18/06/2024 … The team behind the sitcom Ghosts have written a new book going behind the scenes of their hit show.
Jon Holmes opens up about his prostate cancer
...in a new podcast featuring a host of other comedians
18/06/2024 … Jon Holmes has revealed he was diagnosed with prostate cancer last year.
Mon 17 June 2024
Sky's Brassic gets a 7th series
...before season 6 even hits screens
17/06/2024 … Sky has ordered a seventh series of Brassic – before the sixth has even aired.
© Thomas Laisne Steve Coogan to play Brian Walden
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.
Hancock's lost TV episodes go on tour
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.