Chortle Digest: Romesh Ranganathan, Porridge, and fishing with Paul Whitehouse and Bob Mortimer

No 797
October 6, 2017

Romesh Ranganathan's busy –not only has he left the UK to crack America, with his efforts being recorded for a TV show...

...he is also is fronting a new BBC Two travelogue heading to some of the most dangerous places on earth.

(Also, Keith Lemon is to try to crack America in a new mockumentary for ITV2.)

Ricky Gervais is making a comedy-drama for Netflix about a suicidal middle-aged man.

Shappi Khorsandi has complained that she was groped by a charity worker as she hosted an awards gig.

Paul Whitehouse and Bob Mortimer are to front a new BBC Two series in which they go fishing together.

BBC Four has announced the cast for its one-off film about Morecambe and Wise’s writer Eddie Braben.

Matt Lucas has admitted Little Britain was ‘cruel’ – and says he wouldn’t make that kind of comedy again

The line-ups for Comedy Central's Roast Battles have been revealed.

Bill Bailey and Idris Elba are to star in a new Sky1 comedy set in the 1980s.

Phil Nichol has joined the cast of West End musical Everybody’s Talking About Jamie – playing a middle-aged drag queen called Hugo.

Richard E. Grant, Jessica Hynes, David Tennant and Katherine Parkinson have joined the cast of Stephen Mangan’s new comedy Hang-Ups.

And Peter Kay has channelled the spirit of Mr Darcy in a new costume drama spoof to advertise Warburton's bread.

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Kevin Bishop on stepping into Ronnie Barker's shoes in Porridge

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