© NBC UK version of Saturday Night Live 'is in development'
Reports that Sky will franchise the hit US comedy format
10/12/2021 … A British version of Saturday Night Live is in the pipeline, it has been reported.
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© BBC Wales Kiri Pritchard-McLean takes over TV Flashbacks
As fellow comic Tudur Owen steps back from BBC Wales series
10/12/2021 … Kiri Pritchard-McLean has been announced as the new presenter of BBC Wales’s comedy clip series TV Flashbacks.
© C4 Matt Richardson joins Celebrity Coach Trip
Along with Birds Of A Feather stars
10/12/2021 … Stand-up Matt Richardson is taking part in the next series of Celebrity Coach Trip.
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Clinton Baptiste to tour with rival Ramone Tamine
10/12/2021 … Clinton Baptiste, the clairvoyant that actor Alex Lowe first conceived for Peter Kay’s Phoenix Nights, is going back on the road.
© BBC Toast pops up again next month
BBC confirms air date for Matt Berry's Toast Of Tinseltown
10/12/2021 … Stephen Toast will be returning to TV on January 4, the BBC has confirmed.
© BBC/Monumental BBC confirms Ghosts series 4
Six new episodes for the new year
10/12/2021 … Ghosts will be back for a fourth series, the BBC has confirmed.
Thu 09 December 2021
© Mark Senior Stephen K Amos up for a stage acting award
For his role in My Night With Reg
09/12/2021 … Stephen K Amos has been nominated for an acting award.
© BBC How there could have been a sequel to The Young Ones
Writer Lise Mayer wanted to make The Middle-Aged Ones
09/12/2021 … Groundbreaking 1980s sitcom The Young Ones could have had a follow-up entitled The Middle-Aged Ones, co-creator Lise Mayer has revealed.