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© BBC This Country star's new series for BBC Three
11/06/2024 … This Country star Charlie Cooper is to front a BBC show looking at Britain’s ‘gloriously bonkers’ rural myths.
Membership scheme for cheap tickets and other offers
11/06/2024 … The biggest venues at the Edinburgh Fringe have combined to offer a membership scheme offering free tickets and cut-price food and drink.
© BBC Grandfather 'had a key role in WW2'
11/06/2024 … Paddy McGuinness is to learn about his family history in the next series of Who Do You Think You Are? In the BBC series, the comedian finds out about his grandfather’s…
About his life as a working farmer
10/06/2024 … Scottish comedian Jim Smith is to front a new Radio 4 show about his day job as a working farmer in Perthshire.
Liverpool's Laughterhouse and London's 21Soho owe thousands
10/06/2024 … Comedians collectively owed thousands of pounds by Liverpool’s Laughterhouse comedy club have gone public with their concerns.
Entries open for the international TV accolades
10/06/2024 … Sophie Duker is to host this year’s prestigious Rose d’Or international TV awards, it has been announced.
Show promises to 'defy expectations of a traditional panel game'
10/06/2024 … Channel 4 has ordered a pilot episode of the James Acaster quiz show People Person.
Ardal O’Hanlon, Tommy Tiernan, Patrick Kielty and Stephen Merchant get an audience at the Vatican
09/06/2024 … Comedians Ardal O’Hanlon, Tommy Tiernan, Patrick Kielty and Stephen Merchant are all having an audience with The Pope this week.
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