Carters Get Rich gets a launch date
21/02/2017 … SKY1 has confirmed a transmission date for Carters Get Rich, its family sitcom about a boy who becomes an internet millionaire that Chortle first reported on last…
Tue 21 February 2017
© Andy Hollingworth Romesh Ranganathan shoots Sky sitcom
Semi-autobiographical tale of reluctant pub landlord
21/02/2017 … Romesh Ranganathan is piloting a semi-autobiographical sitcom for Sky 1.
From Vines to a book deal
Online comic Arron Crascall to write See Ya Later
21/02/2017 … YouTube comedian Arron Crascall has signed a book deal.
Harold Lloyd films to become animations
New deal with pioneering comedian's estate
21/02/2017 … Harold Lloyd’s comedy films are to be made into a series of animated features.
Filming starts on Roisin Conaty's GameFace
E4 series starting later this year
21/02/2017 … Filming has begun on Roisin Conaty's E4 sitcom GameFace – three years after the pilot aired.
Mon 20 February 2017
Norman Lovett: Entertaining Moaner
Gig review by Steve Bennett at the Leicester Comedy Festival
20/02/2017 … ‘I don’t do much really,’ sighs Norman Lovett.
© Steve Ullathorne Joanna Neary: Faceful Of Issues
Gig review by Steve Bennett at the Leicester Comedy Festival
20/02/2017 … Very much in the tradition of Joyce Grenfell and Victoria Wood, and worthy of being mentioned in the same sentence, Jo Neary has created a delightfully uptight alter-ego…