News: First Images And Trailer Released For New Sky Comedy Brassic

The first images and a trailer have been released to promote new Sky comedy Brassic. The series stars Joe Gilgun, Michelle Keegan, Ruth Sheen, Tim Key (pictured looking daft) and Dominic West (pictured looking serious) and will air on Sky One and NOW TV from 22nd August. 

The title comes from the work brassic, which is slang, coming from boracic lint, rhyming with skint.

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News: David Baddiel To Make Holocaust Denial Documentary

Comedian and writer David Baddiel is to make a documentary for BBC Two about Holocaust denial.
 
The Holocaust is one of the most documented, witnessed and written about events in history, so why is Holocaust denial back on the political agenda? What has happened in the 75 years since the liberation of the camps to have so skewed the picture?

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News: London Comic Wins Stand-Up's Biggest Cash Prize

Comedian Mark Maier has won the Petfringe Final, which claims to offer the winner the biggest cash prize in stand-up – £10,001 - a pound more than the Edinburgh Comedy Award.

Organiser Andy Stedman said that this year's competition  in Petworth, Sussex "was probably the best line-up and set of performances I’ve seen in one room on the same night."

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News: Rebecca Humphries Speaks At House Of Commons About Coercive Control

Rebecca Humphries has spoken about coercive control at the House of Commons.

Humphries made headlines last year when she split from comedian Seann Walsh, following pictures in the tabloids of Walsh and his Strictly Come Dancing partner Katya Jones kissing.

News: Roisin Conaty Reveals GameFace Return Date And New Trailer

Roisin Conaty has revealed the launch date of the second series of GameFace. 

Her hit sitcom will return to Channel 4 on July 17 at 10pm.

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News: Red Dwarf Crew Reunite for AA Ad

The stars of sitcom Red Dwarf have reunited for a new advert for the AA.

In the ad, titled Stellar Rescue, which has just started screening, the characters played by Craig Charles, Chris Barrie, Robert Llewellyn and Danny John-Jules are trapped on a planet when their spaceship Starbug breaks down. Luckily the AA App comes in handy and a patrol gets them out of their intergalactic pickle. 

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News: Susan Calman Gets Crafty

Susan Calman is one of the celebrities taking part in a new daytime TV show hosted by Kirstie Allsopp.

In Kirstie’s Celebrity Craft Masters famous faces will take on Kirstie’s challenge to learn a host of new craft skills and let their creativity run wild. Will they embrace embroidery, go potty for pottery or say no way to crochet? Today (Tuesday, July 2) Susan Calman takes on fellow comedian Mark Dolan.

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News: Book Shambles With Josie Long And Robin Ince Adds Wendell Pierce and Reg Hunter

Actor Wendell Pierce has joined the line-up of Robin Ince and Josie Long’s Book Shambles Live from The Royal Albert Hall on July 7.

Pierce is currently starring in Death of a Salesman at The Young Vic. The play transfers to the West End in October.

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News: BBC Three and BBC Wales Reveal New Comedy In My Skin

BBC Three and BBC Wales have confirmed a brand new comedy series In My Skin. The joint commission of this unique new comedy comes following the pilot which premiered as a Comedy Slice for BBC Three last year.

From Expectation, In My Skin is a dark comedy series from writer Kayleigh Llewellyn, who has mined her own experiences to create this coming of age story about a teenage girl leading a double life.

News: UK Tour For Britain's Got Talent Star John Archer

Britain's Got Talent semi-finalist John Archer has announced a headline UK tour.

Comedian and illusionist Archer was the first act to fool magicians Penn & Teller on TV show Fool Us. Penn Jillette said: “You could put John Archer anywhere and he would kill an audience.”

He is a past winner of the Magic Circle's TV Comedian of the Year Award and is best known on the comedy circuit as the regular support act for Tim Vine, who has called Archer: "One of the funniest men I know.”

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