Amanda Holden has joined the cast of ITV2’s multi award-winning hit comedy PLEBS, with filming of the fifth series commencing in Bulgaria this week. The series will air on ITV2 in autumn 2019. See below.
Holden will play Rufina, a lusty aristocrat at a banquet, who sets her sights onJason, the gate-crashing pleb (played by the returning Jonathan Pointing), making him her plaything for the evening.
Comedian Charlie George has been crowned the winner of this year's LGBT+ New Comedian Of The Year Final.
The final took place at Comedy Bloomers at the Seven Dials Club in Covent Garden and the judges were Jordan Gray, David Morgan and Helen Lederer.
Actor Andrew Hall, who played Russell, the son of Wendy Craig and Geoffrey Palmer in the classic BBC sitcom Butterflies, has died. He was 65.
Hall was also in Eastenders, Brookside, Hollyoaks and Casualty and played Marc Selby in Coronation Street.
He was in Butterflies, which was written by Carla Lane, from 1978 to 1983.
Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer are making a second series of Vic & Bob’s Big Night Out for BBC Four.
Bob will once again preside over the Wheel of Justice and Novelty Island will be back. There will also be the return of hit sketches The Free Runners and Mostly UnHaunted alongside a host of new characters and guest stars.
The legendary comedy duo will be joined once again by hapless Vaun (Vaun Earl Norman).
The BBC is to broadcast a brand new comedy chat show fronted by a computer-generated version of Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
Two 12-minute episodes of Tonight wth Vladimir Putin will be broadcast on BBC Two back-to-back from 11pm on June 23.
The guests will include Alastair Campbell, June Sarpong, Deborah Frances-White and Joe Swash.
The Comedy Store in London marked its fortieth birthday last night with a party at the Cafe De Paris. But before that there was the small matter of an enormous gig at the Piccadilly Circus venue in aid of the Teenage Cancer Trust and celebrating the club's founder Don Ward, without whom the comedy scene in the UK would be very different - in fact it might not even exist.
Tobi Bakare (Officer JP Hooper), Shyko Amos (Officer Ruby Patterson), Don Warrington (Commissioner Selwyn Patterson) and Elizabeth Bourgine (Catherine Bordey) also return alongside new series regular Aude Legastelois (DS Madeleine Dumas).
Marcus Brigstocke is to make his Edinburgh Fringe debut as a director. In Red, originally commissioned for BBC Radio 4, Brigstocke writes and directs a bittersweet drama of family and addiction, based on his own recovery.
Comedian Daniel Sloss is to play a major show in Moscow in front of 3500 fans.
The gig will take place on November 23 this year at the capital city's Music Media Dome, making Sloss one of the few UK comedians to perform in Russia. Eddie Izzard and Dylan Moran are also among the select band that have previously performed in Russia, but this latest show, in which Sloss will perform his latest show X, may even be the biggest solo gig a UK stand-up has ever done in the former Soviet Union.
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