News: Cast Announced for Inside No. 9 Series 5

With filming underway for the fifth series of the award-winning and critically-acclaimed Inside No. 9, a host of talented actors are set to join Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton as they create six brand new stand-alone stories which promise to bring more exceptionally twisted tales to BBC Two.

News: Graham Norton and Alan Carr Confirmed As Judges For RuPaul’s Drag Race UK

BBC Three has confirmed two of TV’s best loved presenters and personalities, Graham Norton and Alan Carr, will be joining RuPaul and Michelle Visage on the judging panel for RuPaul’s Drag Race UK.

Eight-time Bafta TV award-winner Graham Norton is no stranger to RuPaul’s Drag Race, having already appeared on RuPaul’s Drag Race: All Stars season two in the US as a guest judge in 2016.

News: QI Asks Fans To GetFact

Following Qiktionary, QI Ltd’s first foray into mobile gaming, this week sees the creators of BBC2’s QI release mobile phone game GetFact globally in the Apple iOS AppStore. 

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Video: First Trailer Released for New Martin Clunes Sitcom Warren

The first trailer has been released to promote the new comedy Warren, starring Martin Clunes and starting on BBC One on Monday 25th February at 9pm.

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News: Legendary Comedy Agent Norma Farnes Dies

Legendary showbiz agent Norma Farnes has died.

Farnes was one of the last surviving links to the first golden age of broadcasting comedy in the UK. She worked for many years with Eric Sykes and most famously Spike Milligan.

It was Farnes who seemed most able to handle the unpredictable, depressive Milligan, whose behaviour included throwing a heavy paperweight at Sykes which missed him and flew out of the office window at Orme Court in West London.

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News: Daniel Kitson Goes To Australia

Daniel Kitson has described the first night performance of his latest show Keep at Battersea Arts Centre in January as "pretty shonky".

News: Tim Renkow & Lorraine Bracco Star In New TV Comedy

Tim Renkow (Bobby and Harriet Get Married) and Lorraine Bracco (Sopranos, Goodfellas) star as Tim and his loud, proud mother, in BBC Three comedy series, Jerk.

Tim has cerebral palsy, which means that people judge him and his crumpled tissue of a body. But usually they judge him wrongly. Because what they don’t realise is that inside that severely disabled, fragile body is a bit of an asshole.

Video: First Trailer From This Time With Alan Partridge

The first official trailer has been released from the forthcoming series This Time With Alan Partridge, starring Steve Coogan as the hapless broadcaster returning to the BBC.

The new series starts in two weeks. Date to be confirmed.

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News: American Tour For James Acaster

James Acaster is to take his acclaimed show Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999 to America.

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TV Review: Hypothetical, Dave

Dave has a great track record at coming up with off-the-wall comedy shows, from Dave Gorman's Modern Life Is Goodish to, inevitably, Taskmaster (which is going to be mentioned a lot in this piece). Hypothetical is an interesting hybrid. It's as formulaic as any BBC panel show – and features a lot of the same people – but at the same time it comes to the chummy game show template from a distinctly sideways angle.

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