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Chortle Digest: C4 comedy chief quits, Sara Pascoe does Jane Austen and more...
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February 10, 2017

 


Sara Pascoe is adapting Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice for the stage.

Channel 4’s head of comedy Phil Clarke is to step down to set up a production company with Peep Show creators Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong.

Jo Brand’s social work sitcom Damned is returning to Channel 4.

Comedy writing legend Alan Simpson has died at the age of 87.

Jack Whitehall is to become an action hero in a  new Sky 1 comedy, Bounty Hunters. 

Richard Gadd has landed his first  TV starring role, in a BBC Two
docu-drama about one of the most famous homosexuality cases in British legal history.

The BBC is planning to televise the Fleabag stage show

Stephen Merchant is to write and direct a film about WWE wrestling

Channel 4 released a new batch of Comedy Blaps

Classic radio comedy I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again is to hit the road with some of its original stars

Sky 1 has ordered a second series of Dawn French’s love-triangle drama Delicious

Scarlett Moffatt is piloting a new topical celebrity sketch format 

Matt Berry and Flight Of The Conchords star Jemaine Clement have signed up to star in a new independent comedy movie 

And entries have opened for this year's Chortle Student Comedy Award.

 

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Welcome to your weekly Chortle Digest of comedy news to take your mind off what's going on elsewhere. As always check chortle.co.uk for all the breaking news, reviews and features – plus listings of almost 5,000 live comedy events.

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Craft of Comedy UK
30 March – 1 April

The annual event by, for and about comedy. Leading industry figures in UK comedy leave London and gather in Llandudno.

A recording of BBC Radio 4's The Now Show opens the event and speakers include Commissioning Editors at BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Sky and Radio 4, Hat Trick boss Jimmy Mulville, Revolting's Jolyon Rubinstein and Heydon Prowse amongst others. Really good – Go! TICKETS


Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney on the return of Catastrophe

Tom Basden on writing new E4 comedy Gap Year

Jon Richardson on facing his fears


An Hour with Woody Allen(ish) at the Leicester Comedy Festival

Angelos & Barry: The New Power Generation

Sky's new Valentine Shorts

Still Game Live 2: Bon Voyage


Trailer for Katherine Ryan's Netflix special, a stand-up set to remember Stuart Hudson who died this year, and a trailer for Steve Coogan's new movie.


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