© David A Ellis / Creative Commons 3.0/CC BY-SA 3.0 Ken Dodd helps build a new theatre
His charity chips in £700,000 to Playhouse North
19/08/2020 … Ken Dodd is helping to build a new theatre from beyond the grave.
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Wed 19 August 2020
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Alice Levine to co-host The Museum of Curiosity
As Eddie Izzard, Ian Hislop and Hannah Gadsby appear as guests
19/08/2020 … Alice Levine is to take over as curator on Radio 4’s The Museum of Curiosity.
Tue 18 August 2020
The world's first chat show on a chemo ward
Dara O Briain is the first guest on Sarah Mills's new YouTube show
18/08/2020 … Comedian and TV producer Sarah Mills has launched the world's first chat show set in a chemotherapy ward.
© Just For Laughs Trevor Noah reschedules London dates AGAIN
Now he should be coming in September 2021
18/08/2020 … Trevor Noah has been forced to reschedule his UK dates yet again.
Sky buys A Black Lady Sketch Show
Groundbreaking HBO series coming to the UK
18/08/2020 … A Black Lady Sketch Show is coming to the UK.
Theatre reopens with a live comedy audience
...but the comedians stay at home!
18/08/2020 … A theatre is opening its doors after lockdown with a comedy show with a live audience – but absent comedians.
Mon 17 August 2020
© UKTV We'll Meet The Richardsons again
Second series for Jon Richardson and Lucy Beaumont's mokcumentary
17/08/2020 … Jon Richardson and Lucy Beaumont are to make a second series of Meet The Richardsons, the mockumentary about their married life in Yorkshire.
Radio 4 pilots an East Asian sketch show
With Nigel Ng, Evelyn Mok and Ken Cheng
17/08/2020 … Radio 4 is to pilot a new sketch show from a team of East Asian comedians.