In a time when you can’t do right for doing wrong, Steve N Allen, best known for his smart-suited, sharp-tongued regular appearances on BBC Two's Mash Report, takes a look at how hard it is to be better in his Edinburgh show. When you want to be PC, right on or woke, it can be tough. Be better than an angry Twitter egg. Be better than you. Steve N Allen's show is an entertaining, sometimes hard-edged guide to being better than. Time Out described Allen as having "cutting wit'" and who are we to disagree?
UKTV’s comedy channel Dave, has commissioned a series of shortform comedy programmes which will air on the channel from Monday 12th August. Dave News, produced by Strawberry Blond TV, will comprise 16 acts each delivering a two minute news segment ‘live’ from the Edinburgh Fringe Comedy Festival.
Digitalbox plc, the digital media business and owner of The Daily Mash, has announced a partnership with the UK’s leading comedy video platform, NextUp. The agreement will mean the Daily Mash will distribute short-form video content from NextUp’s growing comedy library to its social media following and through its website.
The 17th series of the NTA and Bafta award-winning entertainment show produced by BBC Studios will return in the autumn on BBC One.
Glenn Moore returns to the Edinburgh Fringe this year after bagging an Edinburgh Comedy Award nomination in 2018. He’s a master of getting straight to the funny. Before you even buy your ticket for his latest show there is a gag in the title – Love Don’t Live Here Glenny Moore.
Howard Cohen has been appointed Head of Development at Expectation Entertainment with immediate effect.
Cohen was previously at film and TV production company Fulwell 73. His role at Expectation will be to develop new formats and series.
He has recently been involved in a number of projects including the hit podcast Dane Baptiste Questions Everything.
BBC Radio Wales has commissioned a second series of Relocation, written by and starring Welsh stand-up Robin Morgan, to be broadcast next year.
UKTV’s comedy channel, Dave, is taking over a commercial ad break and will use the time for the first ever ‘Comedy Festival in an Ad Break’ as part of its partnership with the Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM), a leading movement against suicide, which remains the single biggest killer of men under the age of 45 in the UK.
Receiving the full-length documentary treatment is certainly an accolade for Inside No 9 creators Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton. The challenge for Melvyn Bragg and the makers is how to condense what is now a pretty lengthy career into a single one-hour (including ads) programme.
Lucy Pearman plays Herbert’s wife Bobby Kindle in new comedy The Mind Of Herbert Clunkerdunk, following the success of the Bafta-nominated pilot for BBC Two last year.
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