Leicester Square Theatre New Comedian of The Year 2017
19/12/2017 … Fifteen new acts – plus a headliner – over a three-and-a-half hour gig might sound more like a demanding endurance test than a fun night out.
Tue 19 December 2017
© BBC/King Bert Productions 'I hope this will make people more sympathetic to those with Alzheimer's'
David Walliams on Grandpa’s Great Escape
19/12/2017 … A TV adaptation of David Walliams’ children’s book Grandpa’s Great Escape will be coming BBC One on New Year’s Day.
© BBC 1m see League Of Gentlemen's return
19/12/2017 … Just over a million viewers watched The League Of Gentlemen return to TV after a 15-year absence last night.
Stone me! Ian is the Comics' Comic
Circuit acts name their 2017 favourites
19/12/2017 … Ian Stone has been named this year’s Comics’ Comic.
Mon 18 December 2017
Mohamed Omar takes New Comedian title
Final at Leicester Square Theatre tonight.
18/12/2017 … Mohamed Omar has been crowned this year's Leicester Square Theatre New Comedian Of The Year.
Amazon passes on all its 2017 comedy pilots
Three shows all dropped, say US reports
18/12/2017 … Amazon has reportedly decided not not to pick up any of the three comedies it piloted last month.
How Ab Fab helped the NHS, ever so slightly
18/12/2017 … Everyone knows that the NHS is struggling financially.
© BBC/Channel X/Chris Harris Unearth a great prize!
Win Detectorists Series 3 on DVD
18/12/2017 … The third and final series of Detectorists has been released on DVD today – and we have copies to give away.