'I was very, very keen to go home'
Mark Watson on leaving Celebrity Island
21/09/2017 … Viewers saw a clearly unwell Mark Watson leave Celebrity Island with Bear Grylls last night.
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Thu 21 September 2017
Michael McIntrye's Big World tour just got bigger
21/09/2017 … Michael McIntrye has added eight extra UK dates to his 2018 Big World tour.
Sky picks up Romesh Ranganathan sitcom
...about The Reluctant Landlord of a pub
21/09/2017 … Sky1 has picked up Romesh Ranganathan’s semi-autobiographical sitcom The Reluctant Landlord.
Karl Pilkington to star in his own sitcom
...as himself and as his unfiltered alter-ego
21/09/2017 … Karl Pilkington is to star in his own Sky1 sitcom – about what his life had been like had he not met Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant.
Wed 20 September 2017
Sky sets air date for The History Of Comedy
Eight-part series kicks off with female comics
20/09/2017 … Sky Arts has announced a launch date for American TV series The History Of Comedy.
© BBC More details of Inside No 9 series 4 revealed
Outline synopsis of a couple of episodes
20/09/2017 … Details of two new episodes in the fourth series of Inside No 9 have been revealed.
Gervais adds three new Humanity dates
Leeds, Berlin and San Francisco
20/09/2017 … Ricky Gervais has added three new dates to his Humanity word tour.
© Gage Skidmore/CC BY-SA 2.0 Jamie Lee Curtis to star in funeral parlour comedy
20/09/2017 … Jamie Lee Curtis is set to star in a new comedy set at a family-run funeral home.