Interviews with the top comedians.
Idris Elba and Bill Bailey on their new 1980s-set Sky comedy In The Long Run
12/03/2018 … Idris Elba, creator and star How did In the Long Run come about? It came from a 20-minute short that I did for Sky called King For A Term.
© BBC Ford Kiernan and Greg Hemphill on the return of Still Game
26/02/2018 … Still Game will return to BBC One for its eighth series on March 8.
© BBC John Cleese on his return to sitcom
13/02/2018 … John Cleese makes a return to sitcom this weekend with Hold The Sunset, his first BBC comedy since Fawlty Towers 44 years ago.
Alan Davies on the return of Damned
30/01/2018 … Jo Brand’s social worker comedy Damned is set to return to Channel 4 soon, with Alan Davies’s character Al becoming especially jaded about his job.
© C4 Jo Brand on the return of Damned
30/01/2018 … Jo Brand’s social worker comedy Damned is set to return to Channel 4 soon.
© BBC/King Bert Productions 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/Gary Moyes French and Saunders blatantly lie their way through a Q&A
13/12/2017 … Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders are back on TV on Christmas day with a 30th anniversary clip show featuring some new characters, never-before-seen footage…
© C4 Alan Carr on hosting The Price Is Right
11/12/2017 … Alan Carr is fronting a revival of high-energy game show The Price is Right for Channel 4 this Christmas – following in the footsteps of Leslie Crowther,…
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