The line-up has been announced for this year's New Comedian of the Year FinalThe final takes place at 7pm at the Leicester Square Theatre on Monday December 18. The compere is Mick Ferry.Previous... more
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Stephen Fry and Alan Davies have reunited for the first time since Stephen Fry left QI to celebrate the release of volumes three and four of The Complete QI – a collector’s edition DVD box set.... more
The first picture of Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning actor Jon Hamm (Mad Men, Baby Driver, Bridesmaids) in the role of the Archangel Gabriel in the new series Good Omens has been released. ... more
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
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
