All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
© BBC Director of comedy Jon Petrie calls for HMRC help for the genre
24/05/2023 … BBC Director of Comedy Jon Petrie has called for tax relief for producers making TV comedy.
© BBC Six episodes following a successful pilot last year
24/05/2023 … The BBC has ordered a full series of Dinosaur, the sitcom starring stand-up Ashley Storrie as an autistic woman in her 30s whose life is turned upside-down when…
Six more episodes of BBC sketch show from Ellie White and Natasia Demetriou
24/05/2023 … Ellie White and Natasia Demetriou’s sketch show is to return to the BBC.
© BBC BBC orders Things You Should Have Done from comic Lucia Keskin
24/05/2023 … Am I Being Unreasonable? co-creator Selin Hizli is to star in a new BBC sitcom from comic Lucia Keskin.
© BBC Wales BBC orders more of stand-up's sitcom
24/05/2023 … The BBC has picked up Mike Bubbins’ sitcom Mammoth for three more episodes.
© Leo Cackett Comic plays a washed-up model in Spent, which she also wrote
24/05/2023 … Model turned comedian Michelle de Swarte is to star in a new BBC sitcom, which she also wrote.
As a Luddite loner on the search of his missing cop brother
24/05/2023 … David Mitchell is to play identical twins in a new ‘genre-bending’ comedy detective show for BBC One.
More from Bad Education, Avoidance, Mandy and Peacock
24/05/2023 … The BBC has ordered new series of Bad Education, Romesh Ranganathan sitcom Avoidance, Allan ‘Seapa’ Mustafa’s personal trainer comedy Peacock…
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