Ricky Gervais's firms make £5m profit
According to new Companies House records
27/08/2022 … Ricky Gervais’s companies made almost £5million last year, newly published accounts reveal.
2022 News
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Sat 27 August 2022
Fri 26 August 2022
Jim Moir to front a bird painting series for Sky Arts
Vic Reeves creator will be joined by his wife Nancy
26/08/2022 … Vic Reeves creator Jim Moir is to front a new Sky Arts series about his passion for watching and painting birds.
© Sky UK Ltd Brassic gets a fifth series
And Steve Pemberton makes a guest appearance in series 4
26/08/2022 … Sky has ordered a fifth series of Brassic to air next year.
Sky orders seven comedy shorts
Witj Jordan Brookes, Jessica Fostekew, Rosie Jones and Desiree Burch and more
26/08/2022 … Sky has ordered a new series of comedy shorts featuring th likes of Jordan Brookes, Jessica Fostekew, Rosie Jones and Desiree Burch (pictured).
Thu 25 August 2022
Amused Moose 2022 winners revealed
Untapped talent at the Edinburgh Fringe
25/08/2022 … Richard David-Caine, Chelsea Birkby and Nicholls & Brown have won Amused Moose Comedy Awards at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe.
© Steve Ullathorne Joshua Bethania wins So You Think You're Funny?
Following in the footsteps of some fine comedy talent
25/08/2022 … Joshua Bethania has won this year’s’s So You Think You’re Funny? comedy competition at the Edinburgh Fringe.
© Richard Szwejkowski/CC BY-SA 2.0 Cardiff is the BBC's next City Of Comedy
Festival and schemes to foster local talen
25/08/2022 … Cardiff has been named as the BBC’s City of Comedy for 2023.
© BBC Car Share's Paul Coleman and Sian Gibson reunite
For a new BBC comedy set in 1990s Manchester
25/08/2022 … Car Share writer Paul Coleman is to reunite with Sian Gibson for a new BBC One comedy.