© BBC QI team win 'best new podcast'
09/12/2014 … THE No Such Thing As A Fish podcast, recorded by the QI researchers, has been named best new podcast of 2014 by Apple’s iTunes store.
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Tue 09 December 2014
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Eric Morecambe statue has been repaired
09/12/2014 … Eric Morecambe’s statue is to be returned to its rightful place on Thursday, nine weeks after it was damaged by vandals.
C4 sitcom for Barratt and Coleman
Flowers is 'dark, funny and challenging'
09/12/2014 … Olivia Colman and Julian Barratt are to star in a new comedy pilot, playing the parents of twentysomething twins.
Mon 08 December 2014
Another round of Toast
Channel 4 orders a third series of Matt Berry's comedy
08/12/2014 … Channel 4 has commissioned Matt Berry to make a third series of Toast of London.
New Chris Morris sketch 'not ready yet'
08/12/2014 … Chris Morris’s new sketch failed to make an appearance yesterday – because it wasn’t ready in time.
Australian comic Stella Young dies
Disability campaigner was just 32
08/12/2014 … Australian comedian Stella Young has died unexpectedly at the age of 32.
Good comedians die young
...according to new academic research
08/12/2014 … The funniest comedians are more likely to die young, according to a new scientific paper.
Reg D Hunter investigates blackface
08/12/2014 … Reginald D Hunter is to investigate blackface and minstrel shows for a BBC Two documentary about the music of the American South.