© Steve Ullathorne Sophie Willan pilots BBC Two sitcom
...loosely based on her own life
21/08/2019 … Sophie Willan is piloting a BBC Two sitcom loosely based on her own life.
2019 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Wed 21 August 2019
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© Idil Sukan Sara Pascoe to make a BBC Two sitcom
Exploring family, relationships and biology
21/08/2019 … BBC Two has commissioned a new six-part comedy from Sara Pascoe.
New series from Derry Girls creator Lisa McGee
...but this one's a psychological thriller
21/08/2019 … Derry Girls creator Lisa McGee is to write a ‘contemporary psychological thriller’ for Channel Five.
There She Goes, again
BBC orders a second series of David Tennant and Jessica Hynes comedy-drama
21/08/2019 … There She Goes – in which David Tennant and Jessica Hynes – play parents bringing up a girl with severe learning disabilities is to return…
Sky to launch a channel dedicated to US comedies
Including Curb and John Oliver
21/08/2019 … Sky is to launch a new channel dedicated only to US comedy shows.
C4 orders a sitcom about a female Muslim punk band
Lady Parts picked up following a Comedy Blap
21/08/2019 … Channel 4 is making a comedy series about an all-female Muslim punk band.
Tue 20 August 2019
© Eva Rinaldi/CC BY-SA 2.0 Comedians to star in new Amazon entertainment show
Rebel Wilson to host the company's first Australian commission
20/08/2019 … Amazon is launching its first original programming in Australia: a TV comedy competition with a £55,000 first prize.
Home again
Channel 4 renews Rufus Jones's asylum-seeker comedy
20/08/2019 … Rufus Jones's asylum seeker sitcom Home is returning for a second series, Chortle can reveal.