The Funny Women Awards have announced their celebrity mentors.The finalists of the Stage Award, which takes place at Koko in Camden on September 28 and is compered by Kerry Godliman, can... more
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BBC Radio 2 has announced the commission of a new sitcom, Barbara Nice, which is to be recorded in Birmingham and Salford this summer.Due to be recorded in front of a live studio audience, the... more
Details of the new C4 sitcom from Peep Show stars David Mitchell and Robert Webb have been confirmed.The duo has just finished shooting a pilot of Back, which will be set in a pub. Mitchell plays a... more
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
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
