Just The Tonic joins Edinburgh's 'festival within a festival'
Other Fringe operators join the 'Big Four's' marketing drive
21/06/2022 … Just The Tonic is to rejoin the ‘Big Four’ Fringe venues as part of their festival-within-a-festival.
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Tue 21 June 2022
Are these the funniest podcasts of 2022?
British Podcast Award nominees announced
21/06/2022 … The best podcasts of the last 12 months have been named, with the unveiling of the shortlists in the 2022 British Podcast Awards.
Mon 20 June 2022
Nick Helm to host Film Quiz podcast
Recording in London next month
20/06/2022 … Nick Helm is to host a new podcast, The Film Quiz.
© BBC/Avalon More beef? BBC orders series two of The Chris & Rosie Ramsey Show
20/06/2022 … The BBC has commissioned a second series of The Chris & Rosie Ramsey Show to air next year.
Sun 19 June 2022
Andrew O'Neill launches an occult sitcom
The week's best comedy on TV and radio
19/06/2022 … Here’s our pick of the best comedy programmes on TV, radio and on demand this week.
Hugh Grant joins Jerry Seinfeld's Pop-Tarts film
Netflix movie about the race to revolutionise breakfast
19/06/2022 … Hugh Grant has joined the cast of the movie Jerry Seinfeld is directing about Pop-Tarts.
Sat 18 June 2022
Standing up for the Windrush families
The best of the week's live comedy
18/06/2022 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the thousands of events Chortle currently has listed.
© Ketut Subiyanto/Pexels Watching TV comedies increases the risk of stomach pains
...but laughing with friends decreases it
18/06/2022 … Watching sitcoms could give you indigestion, scientists have suggested – but laughing with friends is likely to reduce it.