© ABC BBC Three gets 'High'
31/03/2008 … BBC Three has bought the rights to hit Australian comedy Summer Heights High.
2008 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Mon 31 March 2008
© ABC Sat 29 March 2008
Bruno goes wild
Baron Cohen runs amok in America - again
29/03/2008 … Sacha Baron Cohen has been causing a stir in Kansas, where he is shooting his new movie in the guise of flamboyantly gay Austrian fashionista Bruno.
Fri 28 March 2008
Making light of divorce...
28/03/2008 … ‘When I do comedy, I don't care about the rules of society; if you tell me I shouldn't say such-and-such, it'll be in my first sentence.
Walliams for the West End?
Little Britain star poised for Pinter role
28/03/2008 … David Walliams is set to star in a West End play, it has been reported today.
Thu 27 March 2008
Send in the Clones...
27/03/2008 … BBC Three has commissioned a new sitcom about a human clone, to be scripted by a US-style writing team.
You heard it here first...
BBC Radio searches for next TV hits
27/03/2008 … The BBC is to launch a series of Radio 4 comedy shows with an eye to developing them for TV.
© BBC Two more series for My Family
27/03/2008 … The BBC has ordered two more series of My Family, enough to keep it running well into 2009.
Wed 26 March 2008
Rowan pockets Fagin role
West End comeback for Atkinson
26/03/2008 … Rowan Atkinson is to return to the West End stage after almost 20 years, to play Fagin in the revival of Oliver! next year.