C5 orders improvised border guards mockumentary
Its first new comedy in a decade
10/02/2016 … Channel 5 has ordered an improvised mockumentary based around border guards.
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Wed 10 February 2016
Mel Giedroyc to star in ‘a modern Round The Horne’
Radio 4 picks up Justin Edwards's sketch show
10/02/2016 … Mel Giedroyc is to star in a new Radio 4 sketch comedy show described as a ‘modern Round The Horne’.
Tue 09 February 2016
The man with the golden puns
Masai Graham crowned wordplay king
09/02/2016 … Masai Graham has been crowned the 2016 UK Pun Champion.
Anita Dobson joins Gold's Rebel sitcom
With Bill Paterson, Anna Crilly and Amit Shah
09/02/2016 … Anita Dobson, Bill Paterson and Anna Crilly have all be signed up to the new sitcom based on The Oldie magazine's cartoon strip The Rebel.
Carry On writer dies at 93
Norman Hudis wrote first six movies
09/02/2016 … Norman Hudis, who wrote the first six Carry On films, has died in California at the age of 93.
Mon 08 February 2016
Glee for comedy club chain
Judges reject TV show's trademark appeal
08/02/2016 … The Glee comedy clubs have won another legal battle against the TV show that shares their name.
How Peter Sellers sabotaged his own movie
Director tells the inside story of Ghost Of The Noonday Sun
08/02/2016 … The director of a Peter Sellers movie flop is making a documentary about the nightmares he endured on the shoot because of the comedian's impossible behaviour.
Rhod Gilbert's gunpoint drama
'Intensely uncomfortable' scenario on Work Experience
08/02/2016 … Rhod Gilbert has been held at gunpoint during filming on his new TV series.