Jon Holmes opens up about his prostate cancer
...in a new podcast featuring a host of other comedians
18/06/2024 … Jon Holmes has revealed he was diagnosed with prostate cancer last year.
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Tue 18 June 2024
Mon 17 June 2024
Sky's Brassic gets a 7th series
...before season 6 even hits screens
17/06/2024 … Sky has ordered a seventh series of Brassic – before the sixth has even aired.
© Thomas Laisne Steve Coogan to play Brian Walden
In drama about his landmark interview with Margaret Thatcher
17/06/2024 … Steve Coogan is to play heavyweight political interviewer Brian Walden in a dramatisation of a watershed encounter he had with Margaret Thatcher.
Hancock's lost TV episodes go on tour
First airing in almost 70 years
17/06/2024 … Three lost Hancock’s Half Hour episodes, are to get a public outing for the first time since they were televised almost 70 years ago.
Sun 16 June 2024
Netflix celebrates the LGBTQ+ comedians who changed the world
The week's best comedy on TV, radio and streaming
16/06/2024 … Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week…: Now JOHN HASTINGS: THE TIMES THEY ARE A JOHN HASTINGS: The first of three specials the…
Chris Fleming starts a UK tour
16/06/2024 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the thousands of events Chortle currently has listed.
Carry On film revival announced (again!)
We'll believe it when we see it...
16/06/2024 … New claims have been made that the Carry On film franchise will be revived.
Sat 15 June 2024
Katherine Ryan to judge Canada’s Got Talent
15/06/2024 … Katherine Ryan is to become a judge on the next series of Canada’s Got Talent.