The 2020 Edinburgh Festival Fringe drew to a close yesterday, Monday 31 August, after a series of online events, programmes, platforms and initiatives kept the spirit of the festival alive during the covid-19 pandemic.
BBC Presents: Stand Up For Live Comedy will start filming on 1 September in six different cities across the UK, with a mission to kick start live stand-up comedy again.
Musician KT Tunstall is to present a documentary about cult humourist Ivor Cutler.
Cutler was Glaswegian, Jewish and an eccentric musical genius. To KT Tunstall, his records have been the soundtrack of her global travels: “I’ve always found his music almost medicinal,” she says.
Comedian Frank Skinner is set to co-present a documentary about literary figures James Boswell & Samuel Johnson.
Boswell & Johnson’s Scottish Road Trip follows Frank Skinner and best-selling novelist Denise Mina as they recreate Samuel Johnson and James Boswell’s famous 1773 Grand Tour of Scotland. The trip will tap into Skinner and Mina’s longtime fascination with Johnson and Boswell, respectively.
The semi-finalists have been announced for this year's Britain's Got Talent.
200 acts were whittled down to 40, who will now appear in heats hoping to make it to the final.
Among those that have got through are a number of comedy acts.
Circuit regulars Myra Dubois (pictured) and guitar-juggling stand-up Steve Royle have gone through.
Nabil Abdulrashid, who got the Golden Buzzer from Alesha Dixon, is through to the next round.
Frankie Boyle returns with his New World Order to help make sense of a bewildering 2020. The show features Frankie at his vicious best as he tackles the biggest issues troubling the planet.
Over the series, Frankie makes a string of bold and often outrageous statements which he then picks apart with the help of Sara Pascoe, Miles Jupp, Sophie Duker, Kiri Pritchard-McLean, Jamali Maddix, Guz Khan and Sara Barron.
Frankie Boyle's New World Order, Thursdays at 10pm, BBC Two from September 3.
The online Shedinburgh Fringe Festival has announced an exclusive interview with multi-award-winning writer, comedian and film and TV actor Steve Coogan.
Update: these shows have now been cancelled. This was before the new regulations on gatherings were announced so it is not connected to that. We have asked for the reason but have not yet received a reply.
As part of its ongoing commitment as an anti-racist organisation to improve Black representation on and off screen and drive long-term change, Channel 4’s Director of Programmes Ian Katz today announced two major new commissioning opportunities – a new Black-led comedy series and a new unscripted series set in the Black community – which will feature in a Black Takeover of the channel next year.
Comedian Rosie Jones is to make an alternative post-pandemic travelogue/documentary series for C4 entitled A Great British, Female, Gay, Disabled, Covid Compliant Adventure (working title).
In this new four-parter Rosie will endeavour to prove that you don’t need a big budget to have the time of your life - you just need to have the power of minority and an infectious sense of humour.
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