Channel 5 launches topical stand-up show
Hosted by Ian Stone with top circuit names
15/03/2017 … Channel 5 is to make a weekly topical stand-up show for its digital channel My5.
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Ruby Wax launches Frazzled Cafes
Mental health initiative with Marks & Spencer
14/03/2017 … Ruby Wax is launching a ‘Frazzled Cafe’ – fortnightly sessions in Marks & Spencer stores to help those feeling stressed by daily life.
Britain to get Zach Galifianakis's Baskets
14/03/2017 … The UK’s Fox network has brought the rights to Baskets, the US TV show in which Zach Galifianakis plays a failed clown.
Simon Bird to direct his first film
Adapting graphic novel graphic novel Days of the Bagnold Summer
14/03/2017 … Simon Bird is set to direct his first feature film.
'I will be fully naked'
14/03/2017 … The BBC has released some details of its Comic Relief telethon next Friday, with the show coming from a comedy club set built inside London's O2 and hosts including…
Mon 13 March 2017
C4 confirms Alan Carr and Scarlett Moffatt project
...as well as a revival of Streetmate
13/03/2017 … Channel 4 has confirmed that Scarlett Moffatt and Alan Carr are to co-host a new entertainment show.
Jim Tavare 'making progress' after car crash
But comic remains in intensive care
13/03/2017 … Jim Tavare is ‘making progress’ after last week’s serious car crash, his wife Laura has said.
Language, Russell!
Veiled threat to arrest comic Kane if he swears in the street
13/03/2017 … Russell Kane has been warned he could be arrested if he goes to Rochdale to swear.