ITV orders Harry Hill panel show
Alien Fun Capsule to air next year
25/08/2016 … ITV has commissioned a new panel show from Harry Hill, to air in 2017.
2016 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Thu 25 August 2016
Heidi Regan wins So You Think You're Funny?
25/08/2016 … DEADPAN Australian comedian Heidi Regan has won this year's £2,500 So You Think You're Funny? new act competition, staged by the Gilded Balloon at the Edinburgh…
Dawn French to host kids' talent show
US format Little Big Shots comes to ITV
25/08/2016 … Dawn French is to host an ITV show highlighting talented children.
Comic guilty of being drunk and disorderly
Monty Burns swore at cop who caught him peeing
25/08/2016 … Stand-up comic Gregor Burns – who uses the stage name Monty Burns – has admitted charges of being drunk and disorderly after he swore at a police…
Channel 5 goes back to the Borderline
25/08/2016 … Channel 5’s comedy Borderline is to return for a second series.
A League Of Their Own returns to the States
And three more studio series ordered
25/08/2016 … The League Of Their Own team are to go on a second American road trip.
Old sitcom reboots 'could lead to full series'
25/08/2016 … One or more of the sitcoms being rebooted by the BBC could return for a full series, the corporation’s comedy chief Shane Allen says.
© BBC/Scott Kershaw BBC to make Nigel Farage comedy
Starring Porridge's Kevin Bishop
25/08/2016 … The BBC is to make a spoof about Nigel Farage’s life after quitting politics.