© BBC Blackadder's pilot episode to be aired for the first time
Gold channel to broadcast 40-year-old programme
21/04/2023 … The pilot episode of Blackadder is to be broadcast for the first time.
2023 Archives
Fri 21 April 2023
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Stuart Laws and the gig that never was...
Comedian recalls his most memorable gigs as his new special is released
21/04/2023 … Stuart Laws last night released a new stand-up special on YouTube.
He Huang: Bad Bitch
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
21/04/2023 … Freedom is at the heart of He Huang’s debut stand-up hour, although her appealingly straightforward conversational approach never labours any such messages.
© ITV ITV drops The Family Pile
Sitcom lasted just six episodes
21/04/2023 … ITV has cancelled its sitcom The Family Pile after just one series.
Lewis Garnham Hit A Pigeon With His Bike
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
21/04/2023 … Cycling into a pigeon isn’t the worst of Lewis Garnham’s embarrassing stories, but it’s the easiest to picture in a slightly unwieldy show title.
Prue Blake: Unfriended
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
21/04/2023 … Many conversational comedians give the impression they want to be your friend.
Daisy Webb: Joy
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
21/04/2023 … Daisy Webb’s factory setting is ‘silly’, as displayed when she giggles coyly at some of her dafter punchlines: ’No, that’s stupid!’ On…
Nick Schuller: FIrebrand
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
21/04/2023 … Deadpan’s one thing, but Nick Schuller is lifeless to the point of monotone.