1 week ago ‘Brilliantly conceived, written and acted’: farewell to Brassic, the raucous sitcom with real heart

After seven riotous seasons packed with stellar cameos and exhilarating farce, Joseph Gilgun’s chaotic comedy goes out on a high. It will be sorely missedBlame Brassic on Dominic West. While filming Pride, the rousing 2014 film about gay Londoners finding solidarity with a hardscrabble Welsh community during the miners’ strike, West was acting alongside lanky live wire Joseph Gilgun, who would regale him with wild tales of growing up in Chorley in Lancashire. Tickled by anecdotes like the theft of a shetland pony, West encouraged Gilgun to mine his formative years for material that could become a TV show.Gilgun teamed up with screenwriter Danny Brocklehurst, no stranger to authentic northern humour after working on Channel 4’s Shameless. The result was Brassic, a headlong comedy about a rowdy gang of scallywags, chancers and wheeler-dealers trying to stay one step ahead of the law and local heavies in the fictional northern town of Hawley. As well as repurposing the ducking and divi...

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1 week ago Channel 4's OUTRAGEOUS new comedy finally coming to screens after three years of delays

The show, which makes Spitting Image look tame, is a steamy fanfiction series named No Strings Attached.

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1 week ago Fury at police starring in social media 'ads' after Met cop endorses vape shop and West Midlands officer promotes chicken takeaway

One Instagram video shows a Met Police officer boasting about receiving discounts at a vape retailer in Leytonstone, East London.

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3 w. ago 'If any of the boys were feuding nobody told me!': Belinda Stewart

The actress who played William McKenzie's mother on the hit Channel 4 comedy The Inbetweeners has told the Daily Mail she has not yet been approached to return.

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3 w. ago 'I am so overwhelmed by chilli heat I can barely breathe.' TOM PARKER BOWLES tries a TikTok viral chicken shop in London and finds 'no pleasure, just pain'

At this TikTok-trending London spot, the chicken's so hot you have to sign a waiver. How will Tom fare?

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3 w. ago Chicken Shop Date's Amelia Dimoldenberg to star in new Channel 4 comedy

It Gets Worse, also starring Irish actor Andrew Scott and Girls writer Lena Dunham, depicts the friendship between Ethan, Abi and Sam, who are being kicked out of their London home by their landlord.

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3 w. ago Amelia Dimoldenberg to star in Channel 4 comedy about three best friends

It Gets Worse also stars Irish actor Andrew Scott and Girls writer Lena Dunham.

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