UK book deal for Amy Schumer
Memoirs to be published next year
16/10/2015 … Amy Schumer's memoirs are to be published in the UK in a deal worth 'well into six figures'.
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Fri 16 October 2015
Catherine Tate: I'm planning to tour
16/10/2015 … Catherine Tate is considering her first live tour, possibly as early as this spring.
Graham Chapman's blue plaque 'stolen'
Palin slams 'stupid and selfish' act
16/10/2015 … Thieves are thought to have stolen a blue plaque celebrating Monty Python's Graham Chapman.
Stanhope skewers cut-and-paste journalism
16/10/2015 … •'I can't imagine anyone going to a John Oliver show is going to be a prick.
Manford and Jupitus join Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Comics tour with musical next year
16/10/2015 … Jason Manford and Phill Jupitus are to star in the 2016 UK tour of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
Radio 2 takes a pun-t on Tim Vine
16/10/2015 … TIM VINE's Chat Show is the fifth pilot to be featured in Radio 2's Comedy Showcase season.
Thu 15 October 2015
© BBC One woman per panel show
15/10/2015 … The BBC's commitment to banning all-male panel shows has led to the bare minimum of women appearing on them.
© BBC/Tiger Aspect/Matt Squire Boy Meets Girl to return
Stars confirm second series, even if BBC doesn't
15/10/2015 … Boy Meets Girl, the first British sitcom to revolve around a transgender character, is to return for a second series.