On Tuesday, July 5 the Live Comedy Association sent an open letter, signed by members of the comedy industry, to the Fringe Society expressing their wider concerns prompted by the recent news that... more
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Nica Burns, the longstanding Producer and Director of Dave’s Edinburgh Comedy Awards, has unveiled the judging panel for the coveted Awards at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe this August. The... more
Channel 4 has appointed Andy Brereton as Senior Commissioning Editor, Comedy. Andy will report into newly appointed Head of Comedy Charlie Perkins and joins Commissioning Editor Laura Riseam... more
Freevee, Amazon’s premium free streaming service, has ordered Dinner With the Parents, adapted from Channel 4's award winning series written by Robert Popper, Friday Night Dinner, as a straight... more
Comedian Eshaan Akbar has announced his first ever solo live tour with his brand new show ‘The Pretender’ which kicks off in Bristol on the 23rd of February 2023 and concludes at London’s... more
Kate Phillips, Director of Unscripted, has announced that Kalpna Patel-Knight will take on the newly created Head of Entertainment commissioning role following an internal restructure of BBC... more
Debuting on BBC One and BBC iPlayer, That’s My Jam is based on the original US show hosted by Jimmy Fallon, which draws inspiration from the wildly popular musical segments on NBC’s The Tonight Show... more
Comedy streaming site NextUp has revealed some of the Edinburgh Festival shows it will be streaming this August. The biggest arts festival in the world will be beamed straight into people’s living... more
Apple TV's football comedy Ted Lasso has received 20 award nominations in the TV Emmys, it has been announced. The only programme to receive more is Succession, which has received 25 nominations.Ted... more
On Wednesday, Ed Gamble is the next guest on Nick Grimshaw and Angela Hartnett OBE’s weekly podcast, Dish where they talk about everything from how the co-host of hit podcast Off Menu prepares before... more
