When is Taskmaster back on Dave?
Broadcaster announces series 6 air date
11/04/2018 … Dave has confirmed that the next series of Taskmaster will return on Wednesday May 2 at 9pm The contestants in the sixth series are Alice Levine,…
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Wed 11 April 2018
Rob Brydon joins Bruce Springsteen-inspired film
Sally Phillips also stars in Blinded By The Light
11/04/2018 … Rob Brydon and Sally Phillips have joined the cast of a new comedy film about a British Muslim boy growing up in 1980s Luton with a love of Bruce Springsteen.
Mel Giedroyc writes her first novel
The Best Things is out next summer
11/04/2018 … Mel Giedroyc is to write her first novel.
Victoria Wood to get an authorised biography
...but fans will have to wait until 2020
11/04/2018 … Victoria Wood is to be the subject of a major new official biography.
© Gage Skidmore/CC BY-SA 3.0 Bruce Willis gets roasted
Die Hard star in next Comedy Central special
11/04/2018 … Bruce Willis is to be the next target of a Comedy Central roast.
© CBS TJ Miller charged over 'fake bomb threat'
Comic claimed a passenger had explosives in her bag
11/04/2018 … Silicon Valley star TJ Miller has been charged for deliberately reporting a fake bomb threat on a train.
Tue 10 April 2018
Mock The Week is 'over the hill'
So says regular panellist Milton Jones
10/04/2018 … Mock The Week is a tired format that’s had its day – and that’s according to one of its most prolific contributors.
Vicar Of Dibley writer returns to the Fringe... after 43 years
Paul Mayhew-Archer to speak about his Parkinson's disease
10/04/2018 … Vicar Of Dibley writer Paul Mayhew-Archer is to make his first appearance at the Edinburgh Fringe in 43 years.