Micky Flanagan pilots family show
10/08/2012 … Micky Flanagan is piloting a new Channel 4 show based on the families.
2012 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Fri 10 August 2012
Blaps new star: His name is Earl
10/08/2012 … Stand-up David Earl – best known as his alter-ego Brian Gittins – is to star in three online Comedy Blaps for Channel 4.
Thu 09 August 2012
ALF to be remade as a movie
09/08/2012 … ALF – the Eighties sitcom about an alien living with a suburban family – is set to be made into a movie.
Kristen Schaal works on spoof chat show
BBC3 project with Kurt Braunohler
09/08/2012 … Kristen Schaal and Kurt Braunohler are working on a possible new spoof chat show for BBC Three.
Could Ricky Gervais have a pop hit after all?
Band covers Seona Dancing's 80s flop
09/08/2012 … Ricky Gervais could finally get a song into the charts – 30 years after his pop career stalled.
BBC1 to pilot Jason Byrne's sitcom
Possible telly transfer for Radio 2 show
09/08/2012 … Jason Byrne is to pilot a new studio sitcom for BBC One.
Wed 08 August 2012
Open Mike makes £4million
Boom time for producers of TV stand-up
08/08/2012 … Open Mike, the biggest producer of stand-up shows on TV, has seen its annual profits soar by almost a third in a year, up to more than £4million.
Joan Rivers thrown out of store
08/08/2012 … Police have thrown Joan Rivers out of a Californian store, after she staged a protest over their refusal to stock her book.