The multi-talented duo will develop new comedy and comedy drama projects for the UK and international market in an exclusive first look deal over two years.
Entries have now opened for the Amused Moose Comedy’s National New Comic Award. This annual talent search has discovered stars of the future such as previous winners Sarah Millican, Jack Whitehall and Rob Beckett (pictured), with finalists including Josh Widdicombe, Romesh Ranganathan, Jimmy Carr, Katherine Ryan, Kevin Bridges and Greg Davies.
BAFTA Nominated comedian and star of BBC Two’s The Mash Report, Rachel Parris will tour the UK in Spring 2020, with a brand-new show about big life changes, titled All Change Please. The tour includes three warm up dates at London’s Soho Theatre before officially starting in Brighton on 24th April 2020 and concluding in Leeds at the City Varieties on 27th June 2020.
Subscription video-on-demand platform specialising exclusively in stand-up comedy specials NextUp has announced specials from Becky Brunning, Njambi McGrath, Sam Rhodes and Bec Hill in December.
Funny Women finalist and Broadchurch Actor Becky Brunning delights with Bloom. A tale of two halves, the show focuses on her relationship with her parents as a child, and her future as she considers starting a family with her wife.
Clive James has died. He was 80.
The Australia-born writer/broadcast had been diagnosed with leukaemia in 2010, but had continued to work right up to his death.
James was a highly respected writer and critic, who moved to the UK in 1961 and found fame first as a TV columnist and then as a TV presenter, most famously fronting clip shows showing programmes from around the world including the Japanese game show Endurance.
Irish comedian Al Porter has issued a statement today via his Facebook page.
He wrote the following:
"Today the DPP has directed to drop their case against me.
I would like to thank my family, friends and solicitors, Michael Staines and Aoife Corridan, for their support.
For two long and very anxious years I have co-operated fully and respected the legal process.
Tributes have been paid to Jonathan Miller, who has died aged 85.
As well as being well-known as a director and writer, he was also famous as one of the four members of Beyond The Fringe, the pioneering satirical revue which also starred Alan Bennett, Dudley Moore and Peter Cook.
Channel 4 is celebrating its brand-new original online comedy strand, with an exclusive live-stream event on Channel 4 Comedy’s YouTube channel on Tuesday 26th November from 8pm.
Rob Delaney, the multi-award-winning co-creator, co-writer and co-star of the global hit TV show Catastrophe, will release a brand new stand-up special on Amazon Prime Video on 17th January 2020.
Following a sold-out and critically-acclaimed UK arena run, Russell Howard announces a 32-date nationwide extension including a 5-date Hammersmith Apollo run and a 6-date homecoming run at the Bristol Hippodrome to his world tour, Respite. In response to multiple dates selling out internationally, Russell has added shows in America and Canada in Seattle, New York, Boston and Toronto and in Europe in Geneva, Copenhagen and Denmark (4 dates), alongside a new performance at the Dubai Opera House.
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