Series three of the International Emmy Award nominated comedy series Urban Myths, returns to Sky Arts, the UK’s only TV channel dedicated to arts, music and culture. The series features eight raucous episodes fictionalising some of the most peculiar stories to have ever leaked out of Hollywood, the music i
Following a run at the 2018 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, IT Crowd star Katherine Parkinson’s debut play Sitting will have its London première at the Arcola Theatre.
Luke, Cassandra and Mary are sitting. They sit weekly for their portraits and, in a series of revealing sessions, end up sharing their funny and moving tales of love, longing and loss.
It has been reported in Australia that performer Luke Nowell has died.
Impro Australia posted the news on their Facebook page, as follows:
"It is with great sadness and a sense of disbelief that we acknowledge the passing of a friend and fellow improviser.
Luke Nowell was cherished member of the impro and comedy festival community. It was always a delight to share the stage with him.
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.
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