Following the multiple award-winning first series, which was met with huge critical and audience acclaim, Alma’s Not Normal is set to return to BBC Two for a second series, it was announced today.
Julia McKenzie, currently Creative Director at BBC Studios Audio, has been announced as the new Radio 4 Comedy and Entertainment Commissioner. She will start this new position in the summer.
The role will see McKenzie commission top pitches from both independent and BBC in-house programme makers, continuing Radio 4’s unrivalled array of sketch, panel, quiz shows, sitcoms and more.
Following a successful pilot a full series of sideways family sitcom Here We Go launches on BBC One at 8.30pm on Friday 29th April and will also be available as a box set on BBC iPlayer. It stars Alison Steadman, Katherine Parkinson, Jim Howick and Tom Basden and is written by Tom Basden.
Interview with Jim Howick
A number of classic and cult comedies are to be broadcast on Radio 4 Extra as part of a season exploring the legacy of the 1990s, including early shows from Stewart Lee and Richard Herring and The League of Gentlemen.
As part of What Really Happened in the Nineties?, from May 7 - 13 each night at 11pm, Comedy Club host Jon Holmes goes retro to remind us how each series came about and to assess their comedic influence and legacy, as many later moved to TV.
The makers of Britain's Got Talent have come under fire after it has emerged that comedian Axel Blake, who bagged a Golden Buzzer on Sunday night, has already had a stand-up special on Amazon's Prime Video platform.
Axel Blake: I'm Not Gonna Lie, was filmed at the Indigo2 in London. It is not currently available, but shows that Blake is not exactly a new talent.
There can’t be too many comedy touring shows this year revolving around the throwing of a bread roll. Nish Kumar’s Your Power, Your Control strongly features that time he was on the receiving end of a baked-product hurling at a charity gig.
Paul McCaffrey is back with a properly funny stand-up show in which he struggles to get to grips with being spied on by the Chinese through his new phone, married life and how he ruined his honeymoon, idiotic self-help books that keep getting recommended to him, and setting fire to his oven gloves. McCaffrey is an absolute lemon, but very funny.
Brighton Comedy Garden presented by heycar is set to light up Preston Park this summer with a magnificent series of shows from 6-10th July.
Featuring the masterful SIMON AMSTELL, British Comedy Award winner STEWART LEE, podcast supremo ADAM BUXTON, the legendary DYLAN MORAN, multi award-winning SARA PASCOE, Taskmaster’s PHIL WANG and many more huge names performing at this year’s astounding set of open-air shows.
Richard Osman might be leaving daytime Pointless but he's sticking with House of Games, probably because it is so much fun. This week's guests are Alex Beresford, Gavin & Stacey star Mathew Horne, Martel Maxwell and comedian Chloe Petts.
Matthew Horne is best known as one of the stars of Gavin & Stacey but he recently popped up on our screens in the Gold comedy, Newark, Newark alongside Morgana Robinson in which he played a much more scruffy, older character looking for love.
The last WeGotTickets Musical Comedy Awards final was in October last year due to Covid but this year's prestigious final was back on schedule in the Spring. The fact that there was a quick turnaround certainly didn’t result in a shortage of new talent. If anything the 12 acts on this occasion showed that musical comedy is an increasing diverse, increasingly popular genre.
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