E4 acquires Speechless
Minnie Driver's US comedy about a boy with cerebral palsy
08/02/2019 … Channel 4 has acquired all three seasons of the US comedy Speechless to air on E4.
2019 Archives
Fri 08 February 2019
© BBC/Endemol Shine Daily Mash sold for £1.2million
Satirical website that spawned The Mash Report
08/02/2019 … Satirical news website the Daily Mash, which inspired BBC Two’s The Mash Report, has been sold for £1.
First glimpse of This Time with Alan Partridge
08/02/2019 … The BBC has released the first look trailer for This Time with Alan Partridge.
Why Bobo would have been a boo-boo
Tracy Morgan shares a 30 Rock secret
08/02/2019 … Tracy Morgan will probably be forever known as Tracy Jordan, the indulged and unpredictable alter-ego that made him a star on 30 Rock.
Awards for Kevin Bridges and Michael McIntyre
...from the arenas they sold out
08/02/2019 … Kevin Bridges and Michael McIntyre have both won comedy awards – in a very exclusive pool.
Thu 07 February 2019
A lunar-tic idea
Comic Olaf Falafel plays 50 schools in 50 days to plug moon book
07/02/2019 … Comic Olaf Falafel is to perform in 50 schools in 50 days to mark the 50th anniversary of the moon landing.
Young Corbyn: An Origin Story
Gig review by Steve Bennett at the Vault Festival, London
07/02/2019 … This is a great idea, which could have come straight out of the Comic Strip Presents stable.
Stand up and be characterised
Dave Cohen's guide to the genres of comedian
07/02/2019 … We all know the difference between stand-up and acting, don’t we? The stand-up engages with the room, so we feel like we’re seeing the real person on…