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Tom Allen to host documentary series about TV adverts
Wednesday 29th April 2020
Channel 4 has ordered Tom Allen: Ad Man, a four-part series in which the comedian will celebrate 65 years of the nation's best-loved and most outrageous TV adverts.
More comedy stars revealed for The Big Night In
Wednesday 22nd April 2020
Miranda Hart, Dawn French, Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Catherine Tate, Matt Lucas, Jack Whitehall, Peter Kay, Romesh Ranganathan and David Walliams are amongst the stars performing in The Big Night In.
Work begins on Feel Good Series 2
Wednesday 22nd April 2020
Script development for a potential second series of Mae Martin's Feel Good has begun, British Comedy Guide can confirm.
Sophie Willan sitcom Alma's Not Normal gets a series
Wednesday 22nd April 2020
BBC Two has ordered a series of Alma's Not Normal, the new sitcom by Sophie Willan. It follows wide critical praise for a pilot episode broadcast earlier this month.
Charlie Brooker to return with new Wipe show
Wednesday 22nd April 2020
Charlie Brooker is to return to TV with Charlie Brooker's Antiviral Wipe, a new one-off coronavirus-linked show.
BBC Two orders Comedians Playing With Themselves
Wednesday 22nd April 2020
BBC Two is to broadcast a new short-form series called Comedians Playing With Themselves, in which comics are tasked with entertaining the nation from their homes.
Matt Berry to star in BBC Two series 'Squeamish About...'
Wednesday 22nd April 2020
Matt Berry is to host a BBC Two series called Squeamish About..., in which he will "shine a weird and wonderful light onto a different topic" each week.
BBC Two to broadcast Peter Sellers documentary
Monday 20th April 2020
BBC Two is to broadcast Peter Sellers: A State Of Comic Ecstasy, a documentary to mark the fortieth anniversary of the death of the Goon Show star.
The Vicar Of Dibley to return
Sunday 19th April 2020
Dawn French is to reprise her role as The Vicar Of Dibley for a sketch in Thursday's BBC TV charity broadcast, The Big Night In.
Colin Hoult stars in sitcom pilot set in East Midlands
Thursday 16th April 2020
Colin Hoult has a lead role in Newark, Newark, a sitcom written by Nathan Foad about his childhood and adolescence in the eponymous East Midlands market town.