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© BBC/Hungry Bear/Gary Moyes BBC probe after viewer complains about Michael McIntyre's 'willy' joke
22/03/2017 … The BBC has rejected a complaint that Michael McIntyre making a joke about a ‘willy’ was offensive.
21/03/2017 … Ed Sheeran has been accused of ripping of Australian comedians Axis Of Awesome after he proved how every pop song can be sung with only four chords.
21/03/2017 … The Big Bang Theory has been renewed for two more years.
Shooting starts on Two Graves next week
21/03/2017 … Dave Johns has signed up for his first movie following the success of I, Daniel Blake.
21/03/2017 … Jim Tavare has been out of hospital for the first time since his horrific crash.
To open in Washington in October
21/03/2017 … Tina Fey is adapting the 2004 Lindsay Lohan movie Mean Girls into a stage musical.
And more silverware for Phoebe Waller-Bridge
21/03/2017 … People Just Do Nothing and Fleabag creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge both scooped two gongs at tonight's Royal Television Society Awards.
© Alan West 20/03/2017 … Romesh Ranganathan, Fleabag and I’m A Celebrity’s Joel Dommett were big winners at the Chortle awards tonight.
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