Fake news?
Questions over the 'new comic' who claimed the circuit was a hotbed of hate speech
01/03/2019 … Doubts have been cast on the identity of a writer who claimed that the UK comedy circuit was a hotbed of ‘actual hate speech’.
Fri 01 March 2019
Arrested Development: New trailer
Series returns to Netflix on March 15
01/03/2019 … The trailer has dropped for the remaining episodes of Arrested Development.
© Trevor Leighton New ITV drama for Dawn French
01/03/2019 … Dawn French is to star in a new ITV drama about the nosy resident of a small coastal town.
Thu 28 February 2019
© BBC Ardal O'Hanlon to make two more series of Death In Paradise
BBC recommissions detective show
28/02/2019 … Ardal O’Hanlon is to return for two more series of Death In Paradise, the BBC has announced.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine gets a seventh season
28/02/2019 … US cop comedy Brooklyn Nine-Nine has been renewed for a seventh season.
Comedy 'reviewer' asks stand-up to send dick pix
...and offers an extra star 'for being fit'
28/02/2019 … A comedy reviewer has been accused of online sexual abuse after making unsolicited request to see pictures of a comedian’s genitals.
© BBC Morecambe & Wise & Andre Previn
'All the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order'
28/02/2019 … Following the news that André Previn has died at the age of 89, we post the moment comedy fans will always remember him for – from the 1971 Morecambe…
The Canadian revolution!
Comedians force U-turn over radio plans that would have cost them dear
28/02/2019 … Canadian comedians have forced Montreal’s Just For Laughs festival into a major U-turn over plans that would have robbed them of income.