Who's in Taskmaster series 12
20/05/2021 … The line-up has been announced for the 12th series of Taskmaster, just as the series 11 champion was crowned.
2021 Archives
Thu 20 May 2021
First trailer of the US remake of Ghosts
20/05/2021 … CBS has released the first trailer for the American remake of Ghosts.
We Are Lady Parts
Preview of Channel 4's new comedy about an all-Muslim female punk band
20/05/2021 … Simply by focussing on a group of Muslim women, We Are Lady Parts comes packaged with all sorts of cultural expectations about representation that no white suburban…
Leicester Mercury Comedian of 2021 finalists announced
Postponed gig set for next month
20/05/2021 … The finalists have been announced in this year’s Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year Competition.
© Sophia Spring ITV to adapt Graham Norton's first novel, Holding
20/05/2021 … ITV has commissioned a four-part adaptation of Graham Norton’s bestselling debut novel, Holding, to be directed by Kathy Burke Conleth Hill will take…
Alistair Campbell reads his 'bad sex award' fiction
On new Comedy Central panel show
20/05/2021 … Alistair Campbell reads an extract from his book that earned him a nomination for a bad sex award in this clip from tomorrow’s opening episode of Yesterday,…
BBC 'should ban Alexei Sayle'
MP calls for comic's Desert Island Discs to be axed in antisemitism row
20/05/2021 … An MP has called for the BBC to axe Alexei Sayle’s Desert Island Discs on Sunday, accusing the the comedian of ‘excusing antisemitism’.
© Shutterstock Jeremy Dyson to write magician-spy thrillers
New collaboration with Andy Nyman
20/05/2021 … The League of Gentlemen’s Jeremy Dyson is co-writing two new thrillers blending magic and espionage.