W1A returns and hits the ground running. The BBC is up for charter renewal and so these are tense times for the corporation and it needs people like Head of Values Ian Fletcher (Hugh Bonneville) to... more
Previews
If you missed the Edinburgh Fringe this year and are London-based help is at hand. The first ever Objectively Funny Festival which runs from September 16 - 26 at the Albany in Great... more
It must be exciting to be Rob Beckett at the moment. The BBC has recently announced that he is to star in not one but two primetime entertainment shows. And before that he stars in this sitcom pilot... more
BAFTA-winning game show A League of Their Own returns for a new series this week hosted, as ever, by James Corden. Corden is joined by team captains Freddie Flintoff and Jamie Redknapp and ... more
When writer Simon Blackwell’s new series starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb was launched last month publications were sent an episode-by-episode breakdown. But shortly afterwards we were... more
While BBC1’s current Comedy Playhouse series of pilots has had a mixed response, it is hard to fault the first one-off in this new BBC2 mini-season, New On Two.The Other One, written by Holly Walsh,... more
Ben Elton’s eloquent defence of the mainstream sitcom last month was illuminating, fascinating and persuasive. And in a way maybe it could be seen by some as an incidental pre-emptive strike against... more
The latest BBC pilot, starring clownish Edinburgh Fringe favourite Spencer Jones, is a sitcom about a hapless but loveable and well-meaning man who is prone to accidents, complications and landing... more
Let’s be crystal clear about this. Back is not Peep Show – What Happened Next? David Mitchell plays a feckless, inept man-child and Robert Webb plays a hopeless charmer who can’t help cocking up and... more
You can always bank on Tim Vine when you want something light and fluffy and fun and he has certainly done that with Tim Vine Travels In Time, the first sitcom in a new series of Comedy Playhouse... more
