Jack Whitehall becomes an action hero
09/02/2017 … Jack Whitehall is to become an action hero in a new Sky 1 comedy, Bounty Hunters.
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Thu 09 February 2017
Young Frankenstein's West End run confirmed
As Bafta awards Mel Brooks a fellowship
09/02/2017 … The musical version of Mel Brooks’s Young Frankenstein is to open in the West End on September 28, it has been announced.
Sky orders a second Delicious course
09/02/2017 … Sky 1 has ordered a second series of Dawn French’s love-triangle drama Delicious.
Wed 08 February 2017
'There are no words'
Comedy writing legend Alan Simpson dies
08/02/2017 … Comedy writing legend Alan Simpson has died at the age of 87.
© BBC Richard Gadd to star in BBC docu-drama
...about a notorious gay rights court case
08/02/2017 … Richard Gadd is to make his major TV debut, starring in a BBC Two docu-drama about one of the most famous homosexuality cases in British legal history.
© BBC/Two Brothers Pictures BBC wants to air the Fleabag stage show
Phoebe Waller-Bridge in talks over plans
08/02/2017 … The BBC is in talks to televise the stage version of Fleabag.
C4 picks up Max & Ivan's The Reunion
08/02/2017 … Max and Ivan have made a series of Channel 4 Blaps about going back to school.
New movie for Matt Berry
Starring with Flight Of The Conchords' Jemaine Clement
08/02/2017 … Matt Berry and Flight Of The Conchords star Jemaine Clement have signed up to star in a new independent comedy movie called An Evening With Beverly Luff Lin.