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Channel 4 orders The Horne Section TV Show
Thursday 14th April 2022
Channel 4 has commissioned "a unique blend of talk show and sitcom, music and mayhem" from The Horne Section.
Michael McIntyre's Big Show to return
Thursday 14th April 2022
The BBC has confirmed that, following a break due to covid, a new series of Michael McIntyre's Big Show is now due to be filmed. Michael McIntyre's The Wheel is set to return for 12 more episodes too.
Noel Fielding stars as Dick Turpin in Apple TV+ comedy
Tuesday 12th April 2022
Noel Fielding stars as Dick Turpin in a new comedy about the eighteenth century highwayman for Apple TV+.
Jim Davidson launches anti-woke panel show
Friday 8th April 2022
Jim Davidson is launching an anti-woke panel show, Left, Right & Centre. Recording this month, it features Miles Crawford, Danny Posthill and Samantha Day.
Rhod Gilbert's Growing Pains back for 2 more series on Comedy Central
Friday 8th April 2022
Rhod Gilbert's Growing Pains is to return to Comedy Central for two further series. The comic has also recently filmed his latest stand-up show.
Nova Jones to return to CBBC for two more series
Wednesday 6th April 2022
CBBC has ordered two more series of Nova Jones, its musical comedy drama format about an 18-year-old popstar and her 12-year-old sister and manager who tour space together.
Sian Gibson pilots 1980s-set BBC comedy drama
Tuesday 5th April 2022
Sian Gibson and Conleth Hill are starring in a new BBC One period comedy drama, The Undoing Of Martin Parker. Set in the late 80s, a pilot episode was filmed in October.
Gary Barlow making comedy Dogs, about a mega-flop film
Tuesday 5th April 2022
Gary Barlow has composed music for a new TV comedy series. Dogs spoofs the much-maligned film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd-Webber's hit stage musical Cats.
Sole surviving Ronnie Barker sitcom episode to be released
Monday 4th April 2022
The single surviving episode of a 1972 Ronnie Barker sitcom is to be released on DVD. His Lordship Entertains was the third incarnation of one of his favourite characters, Lord Rustless, but now only the first of seven programmes exists, and has been restored to colour from a black-and-white film print.
The Good, The Bad And The Unexpected gets TV pilot
Saturday 2nd April 2022
BBC Scotland is to pilot two new television formats: The Remotely Amusing Gameshow and an adaptation of radio hit The Good, The Bad And The Unexpected.