C4 pilots new black-led comedy
23/07/2021 … Channel 4 is piloting a new comedy about four young black British friends in early adulthood.
Fri 23 July 2021
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Party's Over
23/07/2021 … The pilot episode of Party’s Over first aired in August 2019, less than a month after Theresa May left Downing Street, giving it a frisson of topicality.
Thu 22 July 2021
Ealing Comedy Festival 2021 opening gala
22/07/2021 … It just scraped in past the preposterously nicknamed ‘Freedom Day’ in any case, but even so the Ealing Comedy Festival seems as Covid-safe as you like,…
Women in Comedy Festival to return
Over 11 days in Manchester this October
22/07/2021 … The Women in Comedy Festival will return to Manchester in October, organisers have announced.
© Matt Crockett Pleasance and Gilded Balloon unveil their Fringe programmes
Mark Watson, Joe Thomas and more...
22/07/2021 … The Pleasance and Gilded Balloon have become the latest major Edinburgh Fringe players today to announce their August programme.
© c4 Mo Gilligan gives others a leg-up
Comic gives breaks to comics, writers and production crew on his C4 show
22/07/2021 … Mo Gilligan is giving new talent a break in the new series of The Lateish Show, both on-screen and off.
Cameras roll on the second series of The Other One
Holly Walsh's sitcom to return
22/07/2021 … Filming has started on the second series of BBC One comedy The Other One.
© BBC Comedy writer Sian Harries pegged as 'one to watch'
Edinburgh TV festival also spotlights a trio of comedy producers
22/07/2021 … Man Down co-writer Sian Harries and a trio of comedy producers have been named as ‘ones to watch’ by the Edinburgh TV festival.