© C4/Mark Johnson Kathy Burke joins C4's Crashing
17/12/2015 … Kathy Burke is to make a guest appearance in the new Channel 4 comedy Crashing.
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Thu 17 December 2015
© C4/Mark Johnson 
© Comedy Central Daily Show in joke theft row
Tech journo says writers pilfered his tweet
17/12/2015 … Trevor Noah has been dragged into another plagiarism row after The Daily Show tweeted a joke similar to one cracked by a prominent British tech journalist.
Second Radio 4 series for Hal Cruttenden
17/12/2015 … Radio 4 has commissioned a second series of Hal Cruttenden’s sitcom Hal.
To Hull And Back... and back
Second series for Lucy Beaumont sitcom
17/12/2015 … BBC Radio 4 has ordered a second series of Lucy Beaumont’s sitcom To Hull and Back.
Wed 16 December 2015
© BBC/Des Willie Josh renewed for a second series
Widdicombe's sitcom gets six more episodes
16/12/2015 … The BBC has commissioned a second series of Josh Widdicombe’s self-titled sitcom.
Revealed: 2015's top comedians
....and neither of them played a gig this year
16/12/2015 … The top two live comedians of 2015 have been named – and neither of them have done a gig all year.
C4 to mock the Royals in new comedy
Spoof soap about their love life
16/12/2015 … Channel 4 is making a comedy soap opera about the Royal Family's love lives.
Craig Cash pilots new BBC One comedy
Broken Biscuits set in his home town
16/12/2015 … Craig Cash has written and directed a BBC One pilot in his local town.