Cast announced for new Toby Jones comedy
With the Detectorist star playing two roles
29/09/2018 … The supporting cast has been announced for BBC Two’s new dark comedy series Don’t Forget The Driver, starring Toby Jones as a Bognor Regis…
2018 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Sat 29 September 2018
I Died Up There...
29/09/2018 … I’m Dying Up Here, the American drama set in the stand-up scene of 1970s Los Angeles, has been cancelled after two seasons.
Thu 27 September 2018
Morecambe and Wise producer Ernest Maxin dies at 95
He choreographed some of Eric & Ern's most famous sketches
27/09/2018 … Veteran comedy producer Ernest Maxin – who helped create some of Morecambe & Wise’s most famous sketches – has died at the age of 95.
Sky's Comedy Legends gets a second series
Barry Cryer recalls some of the greats...
27/09/2018 … Sky has acquired a second series of Comedy Legends documentaries before the first has even aired, Chortle can reveal.
Sky orders a second series of Romesh Ranganathan's Reluctant Landlord
...before the first has even aired
27/09/2018 … Sky has ordered a second series of Romesh Ranganathan’s pub-based sitcom The Reluctant Landlord before the first has even aired.
Cheers is coming back to Channel 4
Broadcaster buys reruns of hit sitcom
27/09/2018 … Cheers is coming back to Channel 4.
© CBS E4 buys Harry Styles-inspired sitcom
Former 1D star is an executive producer on Happy Together
27/09/2018 … Channel 4 has bought the rights to the new sitcom loosely based on Harry Styles’s life.
Reeves & Mortimer & Michael Jackson's glove
27/09/2018 … Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer are making a movie about two best friends in search of Michael Jackson’s white glove.