BBC pays tribute to Peter Kay again
Second series of his Comedy Shuffle
08/06/2017 … The BBC has ordered a second series of Peter Kay’s compilation show, Comedy Shuffle.
2017 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Thu 08 June 2017
Russell Kane joins Edinburgh TV festival
08/06/2017 … Russell Kane and political aide-comedian Ayesha Hazarika have joined the line-up of the Edinburgh International Television Festival.
Dave Johns joins soccer movie
Biopic of goalkeeper Bert Trautmann
08/06/2017 … Dave Johns has signed up for another film – this one a biopic of legendary German goalkeeper Bert Trautmann.
ITV orders more Little Big Shots
08/06/2017 … ITV have commissioned a second series of Dawn French-fronted talent show Little Big Shots.
Radio 4 to serialise Eddie Izzard memoirs
08/06/2017 … Eddie Izzard's memoirs, Believe Me, are to be serialised on Radio 4.
Kaftaesque comedians
Comedy stars in new version of Metamorphosis
08/06/2017 … Comics including Tom Basden, Tim Key and Emma Sidi are to star in a new version of Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis.
Who does Ruby Wax think she is?
Comic to appear on BBC geneolgy show
08/06/2017 … Ruby Wax is to appear in Who Do You Think You Are? – after she begged the BBC to probe her family tree.
Sky reveals its Summer season...
Wealth of talent in new comedy shorts
08/06/2017 … Sharon Horgan, Joe Wilkinson and Morgana Robinson – and even former cricketer Andrew Flintoff – are among those involved in the next batch of comedy…