Tim Minchin adapts Groundhog Day for the stage
Collaboration with Matilda director
10/01/2014 … Tim Minchin is working on a stage adaptation of the classic Bill Murray movie Groundhog Day.
2014 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Fri 10 January 2014
Dara in a centrifuge
10/01/2014 … • ‘Leigh Francis would be overrated if the only thing anyone had ever done was acknowledge him as a conscious, functioning human.
Thu 09 January 2014
Black Mirror will be back... eventually
09/01/2014 … Charlie Brooker has confirmed that Black Mirror will be back for a third series – but said there had been 'a hitch, a slight delay' in bringing new episodes to…
BBC could pick up rejected US sitcom
'Big comedy hero' in line for lead role
09/01/2014 … The BBC is working on a sitcom about a pill-popping novelist that was originally rejected by America's CBS network.
Wed 08 January 2014
Russell Brand to address Cambridge Union
08/01/2014 … RUSSELL BRAND is to address the Cambridge Union.
It's TV's Party now...
Tom Basden's R4 comedy adapted for small screen
08/01/2014 … Radio 4's political sitcom Party is being adapted for television.
Steve Oram directs his first movie
No words, but cast - including Julian Barratt - will 'talk like monkeys'
08/01/2014 … Sightseers star Steve Oram is to make his directorial debut with a film he likens to Romeo and Juliet meets Planet of the Apes 'in the vein of John Waters'.
Ford Kiernan's son found dead
Police inquiry over unexplained death of 12-year-old
08/01/2014 … Police have launched an investigation after Ford Kiernan's 12-year-old son was found dead at the family home in Glasgow.