Hit comedy thriller Black Ops has been recommissioned for a second six-part series on BBC One and BBC iPlayer, Jon Petrie, Director of BBC Comedy, announced today at the Edinburgh TV Festival.
Following a highly successful first outing – and the survival of eternal hell fire - the Lewis family are returning to Channel 4 for a second series in Everyone Else Burns, which will bring our favourite god-fearing Mancunians back for an inferno of family strife, marital chaos and righteous revolution.
Written by Rosie Jones and Peter Fellows, Channel 4 has commissioned Disability Benefits from Merman Television and 2LE Media, which first came to life as the award-winning Channel 4 Comedy Blap of the same name.
After the success of the first series, which was +35% up on Individual share and a remarkable +126% for 16-34’s against the Monday to Sunday 10pm slot average, Joe Lycett and Channel 4 will once again be returning to the banks of Birmingham’s canals for more mayhem in a new series of Late Night Lycett, due to air in 2024.
The winners of the seventh Comedy Poster Awards at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe have been announced at a live ceremony at Gilded Balloon’s Patter Hoose.
From a ten-strong shortlist announced yesterday, the judges’ choice of Panel Award was presented to Bennett Arron’s poster for Loser – designed and photographed by the comic himself.
Amused Moose Comedy has announced the winners of the Amused Moose Comedy Awards 2023 for their outstanding Fringe comedy shows.
Shona McCarthy and Lyndsey Jackson, CEO and Deputy CEO of the Edinburgh Fringe, presented the Moose trophies to the Amused Moose Comedy Award 2023 winners:
Dave, the BAFTA-winning UKTV entertainment channel, has announced the winner of its fourteenth Dave’s Funniest Joke of the Fringe award.
Gilded Balloon’s So You Think You’re Funny? has today announced 10 finalists, instead of its usual 9. After months of regional showcases and competitions heats at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, a panel of judges conferred to decide on a 10-strong finalist line-up, for the first time in years.
The venue where writer Graham Linehan was due to appear on Thursday has cancelled his appearance after complaints.
In light of the devastating floods in Slovenia, Philipp Kostelecky who is of Austrian, Slovenian and American heritage, is going to donate proceeds from his gigs on Thursday and Friday to relief efforts.
Kostelecky says:"I grew up in Slovenia. It is a beautiful country and unique in so many ways. Although Slovenia is part of Central Europe it is often perceived to be part of Eastern Europe, and so news stories from this region are often overlooked.
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