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© BBC / Wall To Wall / Dave King Eight hopefuls to be mentored in screen acting
17/01/2024 … Bill Bailey is to host a new BBC Two series giving eight aspiring stars their first taste of screen acting.
© Big Talk/Apple TV+ Coming to Apple TV+ on March 1
17/01/2024 … Apple TV+ has today unveiled the first images from Noel Fielding’s upcoming series The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin.
17/01/2024 … Icelandic stand-up Ari Eldjárn has announced his first UK tour.
© Matt Crockett 17/01/2024 … Mark Watson is curating a second Access Festival of online gigs, via streaming platform NextUp.
Richard Curtis and Ben Elton guest on his Cunningcast
16/01/2024 … Sir Tony Robinson is to reunite with Blackadder writers Richard Curtis and Ben Elton in the new series of his histpru podcast.
Stand-up takes a trip though the history of gadgets
16/01/2024 … Aurie Styla is recording a new Radio 4 series about tech.
16/01/2024 … Three high-pressure comedy-dramas – Succession, The Bear and Beef – dominated last night’s 75th Primetime Emmy Awards .
© Jonathan Jacob / Channel 4 Comedian had to stop filming as it affected his mental health
15/01/2024 … Johnny Vegas had to call a halt to filming on the second series of Carry On Glamping because it was taking too much of a toll on his mental health.
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