Miranda tickets up for grabs and O’Dowd finds a use for the Bridesmaids: last 24 hours in comedy

Miranda Hart must have FINALLY finished the ruddy writing on series three of Miranda, as tickets are now up for grabs. BBC

 

Charlie Brooker’s new show got 500k on Sky 1, while Julia Davis’s Hunderby got 110k on Sky Atlantic, both of which count as ‘strong’. We’re temporarily without Sky but I’m assuming they were good, right? Right? Broadcast 1, 2

 

Dr Brown AND Daniel Simonsen had a chat with Ideas Tap last week, during which Simonsen apparently lost the power of speech (might be a proximity to Phil Burgers kinda thing). Ideas Tap

 

Further proof that the most interesting comedy in the Beeb is coming from the Nations: Adam Hills is doing a panel show for Northern Ireland, featuring Andrew Maxwell and Jimeoin. BBC

 

Chris O’Dowd got married to Serious Investigative Journalist Dawn Porter at the weekend. In a tribute to Woodward and Bernstein, they wore onesies. Daily Mail

 

2 Broke Girls on E4 got a complaint for being ‘materially misleading’, which is one of those no-more-details complaints that raises about 86 questions we’d like answering. Other complaints were registered against American Dad!, Jimmy Carr, Argumental, and Britain’s Strangest Pets. Ofcom

 

Compulsory Bizarro Russell Brand News Story: he might be dating Geri Halliwell. HuffPo

 

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