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Comedy.co.uk Awards 2020 winners
After Life, Staged, Horrible Histories, Would I Lie To You?, Taskmaster and Inside No. 9 have won prizes in the Comedy.co.uk Awards 2020. Radio 4 comedies Michael Spicer: Before Next Door, Dead Ringers, I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue and Joe Lycett's Obsessions have also won.
British Comedy Guide, 8th February 2021'Murder, They Hope' cast revealed
Sarah Hadland, Shobna Gulati, Lee Mack, Paul Whitehouse and Jason Manford will be amongst the cast joining Johnny Vegas and Sian Gibson in the new Gold series Murder, They Hope.
British Comedy Guide, 5th February 2021Bobby Ball's character to have funeral in Not Going Out
Tommy Cannon is being invited to play the priest at the funeral of Bobby Ball's character in comedy Not Going Out.
Andy Halls, The Sun, 29th January 2021Review: Not Going Out
Well I guess if one sitcom title sums up 2020 it's this one. And they've given us a sort of socially distanced lockdown episode to see out the old year and see in the new (albeit a day early) with the entire cast including Bobby Ball all in one room throughout the special.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 30th December 2020Not Going Out Christmas special review
Old-school festive chuckles, with the late Bobby Ball as cheeky as ever.
Catherine Pearson, Radio Times, 30th December 2020Taskmaster Series 11 line-up revealed
Charlotte Ritchie, Jamali Maddix, Lee Mack, Mike Wozniak and Sarah Kendall will take part in Series 11 of Taskmaster, due on screens in 2021. Channel 4 has also confirmed a second Champion Of Champions tournament.
British Comedy Guide, 17th December 2020Lee Mack replaces Stephen Fry in The Understudy
Lee Mack is to take over from Stephen Fry in charity performances of the comic play The Understudy, as Fry has quit the show to make a trip to America.
British Comedy Guide, 2nd December 2020Lee Mack to present new ITV game show The 1% Club
Lee Mack has been announced as the host of new ITV game show The 1% Club.
British Comedy Guide, 11th November 2020Less a comedy, more an extended panic attack, Lee Mack's new sitcom doesn't make for relaxing viewing. This week, a journalist is following Kate around in order to write a lifestyle piece. But what could go wrong when the hack runs into her ex across the road? Not unpredictably, everything.
Phil Harrison, The Guardian, 3rd September 2020Why Semi-Detached is the most stressful TV show of 2020
Hallucinatory hummus! Hostages! Hyperventilation! Lee Mack's latest series is a masterclass in chaotic comedy, with a multitude of disasters unfolding in real time.
Stuart Heritage, The Guardian, 18th August 2020