Who's in the Porridge remake?
31/03/2016 … The full cast has been announced for the reboot of Porridge, including Catastrophe's Mark Bonnar as a wily Scottish prison guard.
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Thu 31 March 2016
Alan Partridge goes up North
31/03/2016 … Alan’s Partridge is to make a one-hour 'state of the nation' mockumentary for Sky Atlantic.
Wed 30 March 2016
© C4/Aimee Spinks Drifters float back to E4
30/03/2016 … Drifters is to return for a fourth series, creator Jessica Knappett has revealed.
© BBC/Rumpus Media/Benjamin Green Romesh Ranganathan up for a Bafta
30/03/2016 … Romesh Ranganathan has been nominated for a Bafta.
Tue 29 March 2016
Student award: The final vote
Which of these 12 will make it through?
29/03/2016 … Here's your chance to choose two young comedians to go through to the semi-finals of Chortle's Student Comedy Award.
Simon Day to play Alf Garnett
Casting announced for BBC sitcom reboots
29/03/2016 … Casting has been announced for BBC's sitcom reboots, with Simon Day playing Alf Garnett in Till Death Us Do Part.
C4 loses Black Mirror to Netflix
29/03/2016 … The next series of Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror will premiere on Netflix in the UK, after Channel 4 lost the rights.
Mon 28 March 2016
Podcast hits legal trouble over the letter 'S'
Comedy duo threatened by Serial producers
28/03/2016 … Two comedy writers have been threatened with legal action from the producers of hit podcast Serial – in a dispute over the trademark on the letter 'S'.