The QI Elves are to get their own show, produced for BBC News by John Lloyd. No Such Thing As The News is a topical, television version of the hugely successful QI podcast No Such Thing As A... more
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Mark Freeland, Controller of Fiction and Entertainment, BBC Television and Director of Scripted, BBC Studios, is to leave the BBC.Freeland has a long history of working in comedy and in recent... more
Seann Walsh is the star of two short films.Yesterday we reported that he is the co-star of a new film with Game of Thrones star John Bradley. Walsh is also the star and co-writer of The Drunk.... more
The line up has been confirmed for the third series of Taskmaster, hosted by Greg Davies and Alex Horne.Dave's comedy challenge series has already had one series and the second and third series are... more
The Gilded Balloon has announced that it has another a new venue. It will be presenting shows at the National Museums of Scotland at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The programme sees 18... more
Update 30/6/16: Russell Kane didn't appear on June 2 but he is on tonight. Good luck Russell. Russell Kane is to appear on an upcoming episode of the BBC's political panel series Question Time.... more
Shane Allen, Controller, Comedy Commissioning, has appointed producer Alex Moody to his commissioning team, replacing Chris Sussman who has moved to head up the comedy department at BBC Studios.In... more
Update 5/6: Target reached! The makers now have a stretch goal - see link below for more info. Game of Thrones’ John Bradley and comedian Seann Walsh have teamed up to star in new film ‘Roger’.... more
Scot Squad and Breaking The News were the big winners at the Scottish Comedy Awards 2016, held last night in Glasgow’s Blythswood Hotel. The partially improvised BBC Scotland sitcom Scot... more
Update: Further dates have been added due to demand in York, Basingstoke, Coventry, Northampton, Southend, Llandudno, London, Nottingham and Bristol. And it has been confirmed... more
