Last Of The Summer Wine's Pearl dies at 80
Juliette Kaplan had been fighting cancer
11/10/2019 … Juliette Kaplan, who played Last Of The Summer Wine battleaxe Pearl Sibshaw for 25 years has died at the age of 80.
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Fri 11 October 2019
Thu 10 October 2019
Brassic goes global
Sky comedy sold to five nations
10/10/2019 … Sky One’s new comedy show Brassic has been sold to five countries around the world.
Bobby Mair to host a spooky ITV2 reality show
'Facilitating murder is the job I was born to do'
10/10/2019 … Bobby Mair is to present a murder-mystery reality TV show in the run-up to Halloween.
Rob and Romesh to host Royal Variety Performance
Flo & Joan, Kerry Godliman and Frank Skinner also on the bill
10/10/2019 … Rob Beckett and Romesh Ranganathan are to host this year’s Royal Variety Performance.
Australia gets its own Drunk History
10/10/2019 … Australia is to get its own version of Drunk History.
Ardal O'Hanlon quits Death In Paradise
10/10/2019 … Ardal O’Hanlon is to quit Death In Paradise.
Wed 09 October 2019
Full cast announced for BBC One comedy Bumps
Starring Amanda Redman as a woman who becomes a mum at 63
09/10/2019 … The full cast has been announced for the BBC One comedy pilot Bumps, in which Amanda Redman plays woman who becomes a mother again at 63.
Angelos Epithemiou announces his first tour in eight years
09/10/2019 … Angelos Epithemiou has announced a short autumn tour – his first in eight years.