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Almost 200 people lodged objections over Dispatches show
20/11/2023 … Broadcast regulator Ofcom will not be pursuing complaints that Channel 4’s investigation into Russell Brand was unfair on the comedian.
© tbz.foto/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 DEED 20/11/2023 … Green Wing creator Victoria Pile is making a new comedy based in a police training college.
The week's best comedy on TV, radio and streaming
19/11/2023 … Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week…: Sunday November 19 SORRY I DIDN'T KNOW: Jimmy Akingbola returns for a new series of…
© Kourey Angelo The best of the week's live comedy
19/11/2023 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the 4,690 events Chortle currently has listed.
Male issues 'fail to get traction,' says comic
17/11/2023 … Geoff Norcott is organising a fundraising gig for male-specific charities next year.
© ITV/Hartswood Films With Karen Gillan in a script by Steven Moffat
17/11/2023 … Hugh Bonneville is to play a news presenter who finds himself at the sharp end of cancel culture in a new ITV comedy-drama.
© Baby Cow 'She's a born raconteur,' says her publisher
17/11/2023 … Gavin and Stacey star Alison Steadman is writing her memoirs.
© ITV/Baby Cow And the first season of the autobiographical comedy will air on ITV1 next year
17/11/2023 … ITV has ordered a second series of Alan Carr’s autobiographical comedy Changing Ends.
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