Sir Derek Jacobi and Dame Diana Rigg will join the Olivier Award-winning Mischief Theatre Company on BBC One this Christmas, for A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong.This special adaptation of Dickens’... more
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The BBC has been inundated with applications for tickets to free advance screenings of Dr Who and The League of Gentlemen.There have been almost 35,000 entries in the ballot so far. Applications can... more
A second series of Living the Dream will be coming to Sky One and streaming service NOW TV next year.Philip Glenister (Outcast, Mad Dogs) and Lesley Sharp (Scott & Bailey, Paranoid) will once... more
Joanna Lumley has announced her first ever live tour. It’s All About Me will see the Absolutely Fabulous star, actress and comedian hit the road for a 30-date tour, starting on the 6... more
Entries are now invited for the English Comedian of the Year 2018.The final has previously taken place in the Udderbelly tent or the Spiegeltent on the South Bank but for this year it moves north and... more
Gary Delaney returns to the road with another onslaught of lean, expertly crafted witticisms in his new tour, Gagster’s Paradise. You can get a sneak preview when he appears on Live at the Apollo... more
Beyond The Joke has received the following email from Derek Besant this evening. Besant is the artist whose blurred images of strangers in a Calgary underpass exhibition turned out to be... more
BBC Three, Cave Bear and Tiger Aspect Productions have announced that Man Like Mobeen, a brand new four-part series, will be launched as a box set on BBC Three on Sunday 17th December. Watch here.The... more
Lee Mack is coming to Bristol’s annual Slapstick festival of screen comedy in January to host a show at Colston Hall all about his comedy heroes, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. ... more
Comedian/Impressionist Jan Ravens is to present a show looking at the history of female comedians entitled Nasty Women.Ever since Donald Trump dubbed Hillary Clinton a 'nasty woman' during... more
