'Sitcom isn’t dead but it needs a couple of Berocca'
Full text of BBC comedy chief Jon Petrie's keynote industry speech
23/05/2024 … BBC director of comedy Jon Petrie has today called for the TV industry to help him ‘save our sitcoms’.
2024 Archives
Thu 23 May 2024
© BBC/Avalon Not Going Out to return for series 14
Lee Mack: 'I’m very grateful the BBC have trusted in us to keep alive the studio sitcom'
23/05/2024 … Lee Mack’s Not Going Out will return for a new series next year, the BBC has announced.
© BBC Mammoth returns!
Mike Bubbins comedy gets a second series
23/05/2024 … Mike Bubbins' comedy Mammoth – about a PE teacher from the 1970s waking up in the present day – is return for a second series.
© BBC/Hat Trick Outnumbered to return after eight years
Brockmans now grandparents in Christmas special
23/05/2024 … Outnumbered is returning to the BBC for a one-off Christmas special – eight years after the last episode aired.
© Jolane Schaffner BBC wants Funboys
Northern Irish comedy short to be made into a full series
23/05/2024 … Funboys, a Northern Irish comedy about a group of childish young men who from a club to engage in ‘wholesome mucking about’ has landed a series…
© Boffola Pictures/Lookout Point Sian Gibson to return in The Power Of Parker
Second series for 1990s-set BBC comedy
23/05/2024 … Sian Gibson's sitcom The Power of Parker is to return to BBC One for a second series.
© att Crockett / Hat Trick Productions BBC orders Smoggie Queens comedy
Set in Middlesbrough’s LGBTQ+ community
23/05/2024 … The BBC has commissioned Smoggie Queens, a comedy set in Middlesbrough’s LGBTQ+ community.
Wed 22 May 2024
12 Edinburgh Fringe comics to be showcased to broadacsters
Handful of acts to get a break at city's TV festival
22/05/2024 … Delegates at the Edinburgh TV Festival can save themselves the hassle of seeking out new comedy talent at the Fringe – as a new showcase will serve up…