BBC Radio 4’s Commissioning Editor for Comedy, Sioned Wiliam, has announced the return of Douglas Adams’ cult classic The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, as well as a brand new sci-fi series... more
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Due to popular demand, comedy night Knock2Bag has announced its new weekly residency at Hackney’s Moth Club. The event, named as one of London’s best comedy nights by Time Out, will welcome... more
Dawn French is sixty today. To mark her birthday a portrait has been released taken by photographer Trevor Leighton, who has been photographing French (and Jennifer Saunders) since the early... more
London comedy club Good Ship Comedy has found a new home following the announcement that its Kilburn venue The Good Ship is due to shut up shop.The pub in Kilburn High Road is due to close on October... more
Comedian/writer Chris Mayo is crowdfunding to raise the money to make a web series entitled M.O.T.H.E.R Knows Best with writer, cartoonist and film-maker Scott Kingsnorth.The ten five minute... more
Rob Brydon is to narrate a TV version of The Highway Rat by the UK’s number one picture book duo, Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. The special film will air on BBC One over Christmas and... more
Lastminute.com Edinburgh Comedy Award joint winner John Robins has added 28 extra shows to his forthcoming UK tour, The Darkness of Robins. The tour will now take in 65 dates around the UK in... more
Comedian Sara Pascoe has announced that her sell-out Edinburgh Fringe show LadsLadsLads will transfer to London’s West End, playing at the Wyndham’s Theatre from January 15 - 20. Tickets go on sale... more
The transmission date has been revealed for the new Sky comedy-drama Bounty Hunters starring Jack Whitehall and Rosie Perez.It will air from Wednesday 25 October at 10pm on Sky One.When his... more
UKTV channel Gold has launched its annual national joke competition to discover the best new Christmas cracker gags – covering all the ups and downs of 2017, as written by the British public.Last... more
