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Sun 08 September 2024
© GS TV Productions Ltd Gavin & Stacey to get a 'making of' documentary
Behind-the-scenes footage being shot on set
08/09/2024 … The final episode of Gavin & Stacey is to be accompanied by a behind-the-scenes documentary, it has been reported.
Sat 07 September 2024
South Park won't be back until 2025
Because they can't bear to do any more Trump episodes
07/09/2024 … South Park is taking a break until next year, to avoid having to satirise the American presidential election.
Fri 06 September 2024
© BBC/Roughcut Things You Should Have Done gets a second series
BBC renews Lucia Keskin comedy
06/09/2024 … The BBC has ordered a second series of Lucia Keskin’s Things You Should Have Done.
Brass Eye film goes on the road again
Screening dates for Michael Cumming's Oxide Ghosts
06/09/2024 … Brass Eye director Michael Cumming is taking his film about the making of Chris Morris’s groundbreaking comedy back on the road.
Joe Lycett to launch a 'manifesto for the arts'
As he's named host of the Sky Arts Awards
06/09/2024 … Joe Lycett as been named as host of this year’s Sky Arts Awards.
Thu 05 September 2024
© Eduardo Unda-Sanzana/CC BY-SA 2.0 Pythons back plan for a Terry Jones statue
£120,000 crowdfunder launched for a memorial in his Colwyn Bay birthplace
05/09/2024 … Michael Palin and Terry Gilliam are launching a £120,000 GoFundMe crowdfunder to erect a statue to their Monty Python co-star Terry Jones.
Suzi Ruffell writes her memoirs
05/09/2024 … Suzi Ruffell has written a memoir about coping with anxiety.