Comedy director Adam Brace dies at 43
Tributes paid to 'a peerless talent in writing, developing and directing new shows'
02/05/2023 … Comedy director Adam Brace has died after a short illness at the age of 43.
2023 Archives
Tue 02 May 2023
© ITVX / Golden Path Productions ITV orders new comedy about working-class Liverpool teens
Gwed features new talent on screen and off
02/05/2023 … ITV has commissioned a new comedy based around working-class teenagers in Liverpool.
© David Woolfall Comedy club cancels trans row MP's appearance
The Stand staff refused to work on Edinburgh Fringe event
02/05/2023 … Edinburgh’s Stand Comedy Club has cancelled a planned appearance by SNP MP Joanna Cherry – after staff refused to work at the event.
© BBC/Angst Mock The Week returns
...As a US series, backed by Trevor Noah
02/05/2023 … Mock The Week is coming back – but in the US.
Mon 01 May 2023
Sunbathing topless around Harriet Dyer is risky
01/05/2023 … Here’s Harriet Dyer with a tip about how not to get hassled while out shopping… The comic also speaks about arguing with dolphins on trains, pranking…
Fish-out-of-water high jinks... plus the thrill of not knowing what happens next
Interview with Black Ops co-writer Akemnji Ndifornyen
01/05/2023 … On Friday, BBC One launches Black Ops, a new comedy-thriller about two Police Community Support Officers – played by Gbemisola Ikumelo and…
© C4 The Windsors Coronation Special
Review of last night's Channel 4 show
01/05/2023 … In contrast to Frankie Boyle’s no-punches-pulled Farewell To The Monarchy, which followed on Channel 4 last night, The Windsors Coronation Special…
© Channel 4 Frankie Boyle’s Farewell To The Monarchy
Review of last night's Channel 4 programme
01/05/2023 … Frankie Boyle’s Farewell To The Monarchy is a welcome – and bitterly tart – antidote to the media’s wall-to-wall forelock-tugging Coronation…