Dave Johns film wins the Palme D'Or
Ken Loach movie scoops top prize at Cannes
22/05/2016 … Comedian Dave Johns’s film I Daniel Blake has won the Palme d’Or – the top award at the Cannes film festival Directed by Ken Loach, Johns plays the…
Sun 22 May 2016
BBC 'thinks Scots are dumber than the English'
Comedy writer's bombshell claims
22/05/2016 … A comedy writer has claimed BBC executives told him to pitch a script to BBC Two rather than BBC Scotland – because Scottish viewers are stupider than their English…
BBC Scotland has contempt for its comedy audience
Colin Edwards attacks condescending and narrow-minded commissioners
22/05/2016 … It was a few years ago and after producing The Franz Kafka Big Band for BBC Radio Scotland and The Atrocity Machine for Channel 4 Radio, I was asked by BBC Scotland’s…
Sat 21 May 2016
BBC Three just got more Witless
Second series for Kerry Howard and Zoe Boyle comedy
21/05/2016 … BBC Three has commissioned a second series of Witless, the sitcom starring Kerry Howard and Zoe Boyle as flatmates put into the witness protection programme.
The Joke
Review by Steve Bennett at the Camden People's Theatre
21/05/2016 … An Englishman, a Scotsman and and Irishman walk into a room.
Mr Ed's human star dies
21/05/2016 … Alan Young, who starred in the talking horse sitcom Mr Ed, has at the age of 96.