© BBC Studios BBC unveils its Christmas comedies
Nostalgia mixed with new festive specials
27/11/2018 … The BBC has announced the highlights of its Christmas schedule.
2018 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Tue 27 November 2018
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Cold comfort as Romesh Ranganathan heads to the Arctic
...as Billy Connolly fronts TWO travelogues
27/11/2018 … Romesh Ranganathan has travelled to the Arctic for a Christmas edition of his extreme travel show.
Alan Davies to star in David Walliams’s The Midnight Gang
27/11/2018 … Alan Davies is to play a scary hospital porter in BBC One’s version of David Walliams’s bestseller The Midnight Gang this Christmas.
© BBC Sara Pascoe and Omid Djalili to sing for the stars
Comics take part in All Together Now
27/11/2018 … Omid Djalili and Sara Pascoe are to take part in a celebrity version of BBC One singing show All Together Now.
Mon 26 November 2018
Exporting Sunny D to America
Fox network orders a pilot script based on Dane Baptiste's sitcom
26/11/2018 … Dane Baptiste’s BBC sitcom Sunny D could be getting an American remake.
When Not Going Out goes out live
Air date for Lee Mack's as-it-happens episode
26/11/2018 … The live episode of Lee Mack’s BBC One sitcom Not Going Out is to air on December 21, it has been announced.
Eddie Izzard announces 2019 tour
26/11/2018 … Eddie Izzard has announced the UK and Ireland dates for his 2019 tour, Wunderbar.
When is Death On The Tyne on TV?
26/11/2018 … The Gold channel has announced a broadcast date for Death On The Tyne.