Cosby accusers seek their day in court
06/01/2015 … Two women who accuse Bill Cosby of sex offences in the 1970s have joined a legal action against the star.
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Tue 06 January 2015
Mon 05 January 2015
Sacha Baron Cohen studied by aiii-cademics
Ali G creator 'hard to criticise'
05/01/2015 … Sacha Baron Cohen’s work has become the subject of academic research, which concluded that his characters were ‘difficult to criticse’.
30,000 protest C4's famine comedy
Plans branded 'beyond callous'
05/01/2015 … A petition against Channel 4’s decision to explore a comedy set against the backdrop of the Irish famine has attracted almost 30,000 signatures.
Allo Allo star Roger Kitter dies
05/01/2015 … Tributes have been paid to Roger Kitter, who played Captain Alberto Bertorelli in Allo Allo, who has died at the age of 64.
© BBC Rowan Atkinson joins Horrible Histories
Kids' sketch show makes a comeback
05/01/2015 … Rowan Atkinson is returning to period comedy – by making a guest appearance in Horrible Histories.
© ITV/Big Talk ITV release Cockroaches via broadband
05/01/2015 … ITV has put all six episodes of its new post-apocalyptic comedy Cockroaches online, more than a week before its conventional broadcast.
Sun 04 January 2015
© BBC Kitson, Lee and Elis James' TV acting debut...
04/01/2015 … The comedy week aheadMonday January 5LIVE IN LONDON: Daniel Kitson's two-hander Tree begins a four-week run at the Old Vic theatre… and unusually for a Kitson…
Fri 02 January 2015
© BBC Mrs Brown's Boys 'will be with us until 2020'
02/01/2015 … Mrs Brown’s Boys will be on our screens for at least five more years.