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Dapper Laughs show: producers are giving up

Vine 'celebrity' Dapper Laughs has been given his own ITV2 show - but copy-and-pasting internet clips onto the small screen is almost always a terrible idea.

Paul: more or less as audience-friendly as it comes

This Simon Pegg and Nick Frost film without Edgar Wright may lack the ornate brilliance of The World's End director, but at least it's got real heart.

The Room: so bad it's good. Now get ready for a sitcom

Everything about the film-maker's imminent show The Neighbors looks truly diabolical, so it's sure to follow his cult hit in being an unmissable car crash.

Bafta TV Awards 2014 - what should win best comedy?

The nominations for best comedy at this year's Baftas look seriously underwhelming - they include A League of Their Own if you need more proof. So who is missing from the shortlists?

Did W1A really need the brilliant Olivia Colman?

Olivia Colman was the best thing about Twenty Twelve, so it's understandable she should turn up in its sister sitcom about the BBC. But was her presence actually any help this time round?

Alan Partridge: a guide for Americans

As Alan Partridge: The Movie hits US screens, here is everything you need to know about Steve Coogan's greatest comedy creation. Aha!

Is this the least essential sequel ever?

It's been 13 years since the original movie, which seemed dated about a fortnight after it came out, and even fewer people have been clamouring to hear what the character did next. Surely nobody can make a less essential sequel to this. Or can they?

Other problems with panel shows

The BBC's director of television says its panel shows will no longer be all-male affairs. That's good news, but it's far from the only problem that needs addressing...

Months have passed since I Love My Country stopped being on television, but it doesn't feel that way. The thing has seeped into my bones. It exclusively forms the basis of all my anxiety dreams now. I'm trapped in a Technicolor poundland full of teapots and warped Keep Calm and Carry On paraphernalia. Gaby Logan is dancing madly in front of me, as if she's trying to shake off a spider's web, while Jamelia jerks and spasms around, screaming an atonal oompah version of Fat Bottomed Girls by Queen as she punches herself in the head. "Stop dancing," I scream at her. "I can't!" she screams back through a rictus grin. She's crying now. Meanwhile, Frank Skinner holds a Yorkshire pudding aloft as a sacrificial offering to the godhead Nigel Farrage, and everyone in the studio audience clutches their belly and rolls around in a mechanically mirthless approximation of laughter. It never ends. It never ends.

Mrs Brown interrupted for Mandela? How could they!

The BBC's decision to cut short an episode of Mrs Brown's Boys to announce Nelson Mandela's death has triggered nearly 1,000 angry complaints. Here, we summarise everything fans missed in those crucial 12 minutes.