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© UKTV The best of the week's comedy on TV and radio
20/03/2022 … Here’s our pick of the best comedy programmes on TV, radio and on-demand this week: Sunday March 20 GEORGE FOURACRES: BLACK COUNTRY GENTLEMON: A new…
The best of the week's live comedy
20/03/2022 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the 7,158 events Chortle currently has listed.
© J.E.T. 603/CC BY-SA 2.0 18/03/2022 … Kylie Minogue will not be appearing in a sketch with the Ghost cast on tonight’s Comic Relief telethon, after she contracted Covid.
© Channel 4 Broadcaster has rights to series 2
18/03/2022 … Channel 4 has snapped up the rights to the satirical period comedy-drama The Great, which will air thus summer The Emmy-nominated series stars Elle Fanning as Catherine…
© BBC Full series for Whatever Happened To Baby Jane Austen?
18/03/2022 … Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders have recorded a full series of Whatever Happened To Baby Jane Austen? David Quantick – whose credits include Veep…
18/03/2022 … Monkey Barrel Comedy has announced its programme for the 2022 Edinburgh Fringe, This year will be the venue’s biggest festival yet, with more than 70 acts…
Winners announced later this month
17/03/2022 … The polls have now closed on this year’s Chortle Award, with almost 10,000 votes cast.
© ITV Stand-up contracts Covid ahead of BBC telethon
17/03/2022 … Joel Dommett has had to pull out of hosting the BBC’s Red Nose Day telethon after testing positive for Covid.
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