Dara O Briain is to present a new BBC game show. The Family Brain Games follows eight families from all walks of life as they come together in a specially designed ‘games lab’ to compete in the ultimate test of intelligence.
Just For Laughs, in association with Loto-Québec, has revealed the first line-up of artists who will be performing at the 2019 Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal this summer.
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Katy Wix (Anna & Katy, The Windsors, Not Going Out) and Lolly Adefope (Miracle Workers, This Time with Alan Partridge) have joined the cast of upcoming new BBC One comedy Ghosts.
The six-part sitcom is created by the lead cast of writer-performers behind the award-winning Horrible Histories and Yonderland, and feature film Bill.
Stand-up comedian and comedy writer Meryl O'Rourke has been selected to take part in a prestigious mentoring scheme run by organisation Women in Film and TV.
Mentors for 2019 include Jay Hunt, Creative Director, Europe, Worldwide Video, Apple; Peter Fincham, Co-CEO, Expectation Entertainment; Sarah Gavron, film director; Saskia Schuster, Comedy Entertainment Commissioner ITV and Danny Cohen, President, Access Entertainment.
If you watch the right programmes – Derry Girls, Catastrophe – you could easily argue that we are going through a golden age of sitcom at the moment. On the other hand if you watch Warren, starring Martin Clunes as the perma-grumpy titular driving instructor, you might feel that the sitcom is fatally wounded.
The new Ricky Gervais Netflix series After Life has received rave reviews, prompting the question of whether there will be more episodes.
The six-part series started streaming globally on March 8 and Gervais has tweeted that he is getting so many tweets from people saying that they love it that he has not been able to reply to all of them.
Richard Herring's annual Twitter campaign on International Women's Day to sarcastically tell all men who ask if there is also an International Men's Day that there is one has raised a huge amount for the charity Refuge.
The first ever Brighton Comedy Garden will take place this summer with five nights of stand-up comedy presented in a boutique festival in the glorious surroundings of Preston Park from 19 - 23 June.
Comedy luminaries such as Alan Davies, multi-award winning Live At The Apollo star Sara Pascoe, the hilariously surreal 8 Out Of 10 Cats team captain Sean Lock and host of Channel 4’s groundbreaking The Last Leg Adam Hills plus many more will be taking to the stage each night.
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Bath Comedy Festival has launched its official programme.
The launch at the Bill Murray pub in London featured performances by Rory Bremner, Jess Robinson and Marcel Lucont, with puns aplenty from Darren Walsh and international stand-up from Romanian Radu Isac and Italian Luca Cupani.
What is the new six-part Netflix series from Ricky Gervais? After Life is certainly funny but it is no sitcom. There is too much going on here that isn't funny to file it snugly under that genre. It's not that safety net catch-all "comedy drama" either though. It's something totally unique. It deserves a category of its own.
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