Australian TV network Channel 7 is rerunning 1970s ITV sitcom Love Thy Neighbour. The sitcom has regularly been described as racist in the UK due to the use of words such as “nig-nog”, “honky” and “... more
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Tickets for Daniel Kitson’s six December dates at the Battersea Arts Centre went on sale at noon today and immediately sold out. The venue's online booking system struggled to keep up with the sheer... more
To mark the publication of Comedy and Distinction: The Cultural Currency of a “Good” Sense of Humour, the London School Of Economics Sociology Department is holding a book launch. Author Dr Sam... more
BBC One has announced that production has started on David Walliams’ latest book dramatisation The Boy In The Dress. Following on from the success of Christmas TV offerings Gangsta... more
Caroline Raphael, Commissioning Editor Comedy and Fiction, BBC Radio 4 and Commissioning Editor, BBC Radio 4 Extra has decided to leave the BBC early next spring.Raphael has worked across BBC Radio... more
Producer David Johnson has written that he is banning Telegraph comedy critics from his upcoming gigs. This follows the publication of the five "best jokes" at the recent Laughing Point charity... more
Daniel Kitson is doing a Christmas show at the Battersea Arts Centre. The show will run from Dec 1 - 6. Tickets go on sale at noon on October 22.Kitson confirmed the show in his latest newsletter,... more
The Comedy Support Act has launched its website. The organisation is a benevolent fund to help comics who through serious illness or accident find themselves in financial hardship.The... more
Maxine Peake has been confirmed as Patron of the Women in Comedy Festival, which opened in Manchester over the weekend. On her appointment, Peake commented, “I’m proud to be supporting the UK Women... more
The transmission date has been confirmed for the return of BBC sitcom Some Girls. The third series, following the adventures and mainly the misadventures of Viva, Amber, Saz and Holli, the worst-... more
