BBC opens up submissions for comedy ideas
Commissioners want character showcases and short films
08/06/2022 … The BBC has opened up submissions for its new short-form development opportunities.
2022 Archives
Wed 08 June 2022
BGT winner Axel Blake announces his first tour
Nick Helm, Vir Das and Hal Cruttenden announce dates too
08/06/2022 … Axel Blake has announced his first national tour, In Style, following his success in winning Britain’s Got Talent on Sunday.
Tue 07 June 2022
Lara Ricote and Sikisa win 99 Club's bursary
£500 awards for up-and-coming female and non-binary comedians
07/06/2022 … Lara Ricote and Sikisa Bostwick-Barnes have each won this year’s £500 bursaries given to female and non-binary acts by London’s 99 Club.
What was the Steve Carell film Foxcatcher about?
07/06/2022 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
How to pitch to arts journalists at the Edinburgh Fringe
Writer Ashley Davies offers some tips for performers
07/06/2022 … Every August, thousands of comedians, theatre productions and the rest all fight to get noticed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Rosie Holt makes a podcast as her anti-woke ‘opinionist’
Who could Harriet Langley-Swindon possibly be based on?
07/06/2022 … Rosie Holt is to release a new podcast in the guise of her right-wing anti-woke ‘opinionist’.
© David Monteith-Hodge The Wrestling is back at the Fringe!
High-impact spectacular heads a new batch of shows released this week
07/06/2022 … The Wrestling is returning to the Edinburgh Fringe, once again pitching comedians against real-life grapplers.
© C4 Channel 4 locks downs a second series of Screw
Nina Sosanya and Jamie-Lee O’Donnell head returninng cast
07/06/2022 … Channel 4 has ordered a second series of its prison comedy-drama, Screw.