© Channel 4 / Alistair Heap Generation Z is cancelled
No second series for Channel 4's zom-com
10/03/2025 … Channel 4 has dropped its zombie comedy Generation Z after a single series.
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Mon 10 March 2025
© Channel 4 / Alistair Heap 
Dawn French and Mark Heap begin filming Can You Keep A Secret?
New BBC comedy about a man faking his death
10/03/2025 … Filming has begun in the West Country on the new BBC One sitcom Can You Keep A Secret?, starring Dawn French and Mark Heap The six-part series apparently…
Sun 09 March 2025
© Elaine Livingstone Stand by for Glasgow's biggest comedy festival
The best of the week's live gigs
09/03/2025 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the 6,657 events Chortle currently has listed.
© Netflix John Mulaney goes live
The best of the week's comedy on TV, radio and on demand
09/03/2025 … Our pick of the limited amount of new comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week…: Monday March 10 RICHARD OSMAN’S HOUSE OF GAMES: A rerun of…
Fri 07 March 2025
Victoria Wood's statue is back on her feet
Comic's memorial restored after being damaged by a taxi
07/03/2025 … Victoria Wood’s statue has been reinstated in Bury town centre after it was hit and damaged by a taxi last year.
© Chortle Edinburgh Fringe announces its £2,500 bursary recipients
Third year of the Keep It Fringe assistance
07/03/2025 … The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society has announced 180 recipients of a £2,500 bursary to help them bring a show to this year’s festival This…
© Netflix Comic fined £1,750 over ham pun
Harith Iskander's gag deemed to have mocked Islam
07/03/2025 … Comedian Harith Iskander has been fined the equivalent of £1,750 after making a pun about the word ‘ham’ deemed to have mocked Islam.