Simon Nye plans Radio 2 sitcom
Pilot from Men Behaving Badly writer
08/02/2010 … Men Behaving Badly creator Simon Nye is working on a new sitcom for Radio 2.
2010 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Mon 08 February 2010
Partridge decision 'expected soon'
08/02/2010 … Steve Coogan expects a decision this month on whether Alan Partridge will be making it to the movie screens.
Another gong for Ricky Gervais
Peter Ustinov award for comedy
08/02/2010 … Ricky Gervais is to receive yet another accolade for his mantelpiece: the Sir Peter Ustinov Comedy Award.
Fri 05 February 2010
Persuasionists audience halves
05/02/2010 … The audience for ad agency sitcom The Persuasionists has plummeted by almost half after the BBC shunted it to a graveyard slot.
Salmon à la Irn-Bru
05/02/2010 … ‘Living with a comic is kinda like having a cobra as a pet.
Thu 04 February 2010
Surreal sitcom for BBC Three
04/02/2010 … BBC Three is to broadcast a pilot episode of an absurdist comedy, about the bizarre residents of the fictional island of Jinsy.
BBC gives up on Persuasionists
Sitcom shunted to graveyard slot
04/02/2010 … The BBC says it has shunted its ad-agency sitcom The Persuasionists to a graveyard slot to make room for something more ‘mainstream’ in primetime.
Wed 03 February 2010
'Unknown' comic to play the O2
03/02/2010 … A relatively unknown British comedian is attempting to sell out London’s vast O2 Arena.