This Country, Derry Girls, Peter Kay’s Car Share, Inside No.9, People Just Do Nothing and GameFace are the nominees for Best Comedy Series in the Edinburgh TV Festival... more
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Comedian Joe Lycett is to present a new BBC1 Saturday tea-time game show.The Time it Takes is looking for contestants to take on the challenge of answering as many questions as you can to win a dream... more
The award winning creators of The Inbetweeners, writers and executive producers Iain Morris and Damon Beesley, are behind a new comedy film starring Joe Thomas, Claudia O'Doherty, Jemaine Clement,... more
The BBC has announced a slate of upcoming comedies, including a live edition of Inside No. 9 and a second series of Motherland.Shane Allen, Controller of BBC Comedy Commissioning, says: “The... more
BBC One is to broadcast a Sir Lenny Henry 60th Birthday special hosted by Sir Trevor McDonald.In 1975, a 16-year-old Lenny Henry bunked off school to appear on New Faces. In 2018, after a... more
BBC Comedy has today announced its continued commitment to developing talented BAME comedy writers, with its second Felix Dexter Bursary initiative. A six-month bursary will be awarded to train... more
Inside No.9, the award winning and critically acclaimed anthology series created by and starring Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith, will be returning to BBC Two this October for a special... more
Dixons Carphone Race to the Stones, the UK based ultra-trail marathon, has partnered with comedians Paul Tonkinson and Rob Deering, the marathon men behind the well-known Running Commentary... more
Bob Mortimer has talked about how close he was to having a heart attack onstage in 2015.In an interview with The Big Issue to promote his new series Mortimer And Whitehouse: Gone Fishing he said it... more
Ruth Jones is to star in the new comedy The Nightingales, presented by Jenny Topper and Theatre Royal Bath Productions. The production, written by William Gaminara ... more
