Gold announces three new comedies
Including new show from Porridge creators
28/05/2015 … UKTV's Gold channel has announced three new comedy commissions – moving away from repackaged archive shows.
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Thu 28 May 2015
Bristol has its last Laughs
City's comedy club closes after just SEVEN weeks
28/05/2015 … Bristol’s latest big weekend comedy club, Laughs, has unexpectedly closed – after just seven weeks in operation.
The best of the old...
28/05/2015 … THE finalists have been announced for the Leicester Square Theatre's Old Comedian Of The Year – including one act, Tim Shishodia, who won the venue's new comedian…
'Del Boy' writes his autobiography
Publisher wins rights to fictional Only Fools and Horses memoir
28/05/2015 … Del Boy Trotter is to write his autobiography.
Wed 27 May 2015
Dave Chappelle to make UK debut
First London solo shows announced
27/05/2015 … Dave Chappelle is coming to London to perform his first ever full show in the UK.
Radio 4 orders heart attack comedy
Carey Marx adapts his stand-up show
27/05/2015 … Carey Marx is to adapt the stand-up show he wrote about his heart attack into a Radio 4 programme.
Jason Manford hosts crowd-funding show
The Money Pit turns Dragons' Den on its head
27/05/2015 … Jason Manford is to front a Dragon’s Den-style TV show in which ordinary people invest in business ideas.
Noel Fielding cancels New York shows
'Unforeseen scheduling conflicts' blamed
27/05/2015 … Noel Fielding has been forced to cancel his sold-out week of performances in New York with less than two weeks’ notice.