All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
© BBC/Two Brothers Pictures Broadcasting Press Guild Awards handed out
17/03/2017 … Mum, Alan Partridge and Fleabag creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge have all been honoured at the Broadcasting Press Guild Awards.
Six-part series on the first anniversary of her death
17/03/2017 … BBC One is to broadcast a six-part series celebrating the work of Victoria Wood.
17/03/2017 … • Are we sure Noel Fielding is the best person to be on Bake Off? He once confessed: 'I did work in a bakery for one day.
16/03/2017 … Noel Fielding and Sandi Toksvig are to be the new hosts of The Great British Bake Off.
Jennifer Saunders and daughter Beattie Edmondson to star together
16/03/2017 … Jennifer Saunders and her daughter Beattie Edmondson are to star in a family film together.
Comic slowly on the mend after horrific crash
16/03/2017 … Jim Tavare has moved out of intensive care, 15 days after the car crash that left him badly injured.
16/03/2017 … RADIO 4 has commissioned a second series of Shush!, the library-based sitcom written by and starring Morwenna Banks and Rebecca Front.
New documentary features unseen images
16/03/2017 … ITV3 is to air a new documentary about Morecambe & Wise, featuring some offscreen images from their movies that have not been seen by the public before.
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