The David Nobbs Memorial Trust announces the 2023 winner of its annual comedy writing competition, supported by The DiscWorld Foundation. The winner is writing duo, Rebecca Bain and ... more
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Romesh Ranganathan and Tom Davis will provide a uniquely British perspective on the new Prime Video Japanese reboot of physical challenge show Takeshi’s Castle. Launching on... more
Casting has been announced for Boarders, the upcoming BBC Three and iPlayer comedy drama series created by the award-winning writer Daniel Lawrence Taylor (Timewasters) and made by Studio Lambert (... more
Comedian Paul Chuckle is to join the line-up of this year’s swashbuckling pantomime, Peter Pan at the New Victoria Theatre in Woking. Paul joins the previously announced Anton Du Beke... more
It’s Stockport 1990 and Martin Parker, a man with the ambition of Alan Sugar and the looks of Robert Kilroy Silk is slowly waking up to the fact that things are changing. With a chain of electrical... more
One of the key contributors to the BFI’s Missing Believed Wiped initiative, Kaleidoscope, the classic TV archive based in Birmingham, returns to BFI Southbank on 5 August to celebrate... more
Richard Curtis is set to curate Christmas Actually, a brand-new festive show directed by Daniel Raggett (Accidental Death of an Anarchist, West End; ANNA X, West... more
Channel 4 has announced The Sean Lock Comedy Award, which will showcase talented new writers and performers who embody the alternative comedic spirit of Sean and Channel 4. The recipient of... more
Stanley Kubrick’s iconic film Dr Strangelove is to be adapted for the first time ever, when a world premiere stage production opens in the West End in Autumn 2024.This jet-black comedy... more
Protestors from Just Stop Oil staged an invasion of the set of The Last Leg at the start of this Friday's programme.Just as the programme began protestors handed out high-vis jackets to Josh... more
