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ITV2 commissions Safeword with Rick Edwards and Katherine Ryan
Thursday 4th June 2015
Rick Edwards will host a brand new ITV2 panel show, Safeword, with team captains Katherine Ryan and David Morgan.
Jeremy Clarkson returns to BBC TV with QI appearance
Wednesday 3rd June 2015
Jeremy Clarkson has recorded an episode for the next series of QI, after his high-profile departure from the BBC in April.
Doc Martin set for US remake by Friends creator
Tuesday 2nd June 2015
Friends co-creator Marta Kauffman is developing a US adaptation of hit ITV comedy drama Doc Martin.
UKTV Gold orders studio audience sitcom Bull
Thursday 28th May 2015
Gold is to film Bull, a studio audience sitcom about a man who runs an antiques shop.
UKTV Gold orders new sitcom Marley's Ghosts
Thursday 28th May 2015
Gold has ordered Marley's Ghosts, a three-part sitcom about a woman who can speak to the dead.
Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais to make Henry IX for Gold
Thursday 28th May 2015
Porridge writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais have written Henry IX, a new sitcom for UKTV Gold.
BBC Two axes Never Mind The Buzzcocks
Tuesday 26th May 2015
BBC Two has decided to end Never Mind The Buzzcocks after 18 years and 28 series on air.
Channel 4 in talks with Dom Joly to bring back Trigger Happy TV
Tuesday 26th May 2015
Channel 4 has confirmed it is in talks to bring back Dom Joly's hidden camera comedy format Trigger Happy TV.
BBC One orders 3rd series of Count Arthur Strong
Friday 22nd May 2015
BBC One has announced the commission of a third series of Count Arthur Strong. The seven new episodes will be on TV in 2016.
Ben Miller's Horrible Science coming to CITV
Thursday 21st May 2015
Ben Miller is to star in Horrible Science, a new children's comedy-entertainment series for CITV based on the popular books from Scholastic.