
'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’.
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’.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
Set in Middlesbrough’s LGBTQ+ community
23/05/2024 … The BBC has commissioned Smoggie Queens, a comedy set in Middlesbrough’s LGBTQ+ community.
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…
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