The line-up has been announced for the final of The Sitcom Trials So You Think You Write Funny competition, which sets out to find the best new situation comedy writers and performers the... more
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Comedian Steve McNeil and Rob Sedgebeer have created a new Guinness World Record for the most people simultaneously playing a single game of Pong. They broke the record of 251 by getting 286 people... more
Two new awards have been annnounced for this year's Edinburgh Fringe.Comedian Will Franken is launching the Defining The Norm Awards. Shows will be judged by Franken and his team for "... more
Alice Lowe has been shortlisted for the inaugural Screen International Horror Rising Star Award.The new award, celebrating the work of emerging talent in genre cinema, has been launched... more
Canadian Comedian Mike Ward has been ordered to pay former child singer Jeremy Gabriel $35,000 for making jokes that violated his rights.The amounts consists of $25,000 in moral damages and... more
Actor Peter MacNicol has had his Emmy nomination withdrawn after the Television Academy ruled his performance in Veep was ineligible in the category Outstanding Guest Actor, Comedy.MacNicol plays... more
Political comedian Matt Forde is to get his own topical television series.UKTV has ordered a brand new 6 x 60 minute weekly political comedy series, Unspun With Matt Forde, set to air on... more
The publication date has been confirmed for the new book by Alan Partridge.Nomad, which finds Partridge travelling around the UK on a voyage of discovery, is published by Trapeze on October 20. ... more
Starting at 6pm on Monday 8 August, and continuing 24/7 until they reach the end, a host of Edinburgh Fringe performers, writers, and politicians plus members of the public will stage a nonstop, out... more
The first picture of the Red Dwarf cast back in action has been released. The new series, Series XI, returns to Dave in September with Danny John-Jules as The Cat, Chris Barrie as Rimmer, Craig... more
