Gold to make an AbFab retrospective
Jennifer Saunders breaks the news
24/05/2024 … Jennifer Saunders is making a retrospective about Absolutely Fabulous for the Gold TV channel.
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Fri 24 May 2024
© BBC All-star Scottish sketch show to celebrate the Euros
With Jack Docherty, Karen Dunbar, Jonathan Watson and more
24/05/2024 … A host of Scottish comedy stars are taking part in a sketch show to mark this summer’s Euros football contest.
Thu 23 May 2024
BBC to pilot a new Scottish sitcom
Development scheme announced at its comedy festival in Glasgow
23/05/2024 … The BBC is to order a new narrative comedy pilot to be produced in Scotland and featuring Scottish talent.
© zoetnet / Flickr Who's getting a 2024 Keep It Fringe award?
180 Edinburgh shows get £2,500 of help
23/05/2024 … The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society has announced the recipients of the 2024 Keep it Fringe fund.
BBC announces its 2024 Comedy Collective members
'Supercharged bursary' to nurture new talent
23/05/2024 … The next cohort of talent joining the BBC Comedy Collective has been announced.
© BBC/Avalon Not Going Out to return for series 14
Lee Mack: 'I’m very grateful the BBC have trusted in us to keep alive the studio sitcom'
23/05/2024 … Lee Mack’s Not Going Out will return for a new series next year, the BBC has announced.
© BBC Mammoth returns!
Mike Bubbins comedy gets a second series
23/05/2024 … Mike Bubbins' comedy Mammoth – about a PE teacher from the 1970s waking up in the present day – is return for a second series.
© BBC/Hat Trick Outnumbered to return after eight years
Brockmans now grandparents in Christmas special
23/05/2024 … Outnumbered is returning to the BBC for a one-off Christmas special – eight years after the last episode aired.