A Doomsday scenario
Radio 4 orders comedy about end-of-the-world Preppers
17/08/2017 … Radio 4 is to launch a new sitcom about ‘preppers’ readying themselves for apocalypse.
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Harry Hill's prison sitcom gets a full series
17/08/2017 … Harry Hill’s Radio 4 sitcom Life On Egg has been picked up for a full series.
Joe Lycett lands Radio 4 talk show
...about obsessions and guilty pleasures
17/08/2017 … Joe Lycett is to become a talk show host for Radio 4.
A panel show for her
Radio 4 pilots a female-led topical comedy show
17/08/2017 … The BBC is to address the claim that panel shows are too male-dominated with a new topical show with a predominantly female line-up Radio 4 is piloting Where's…
Radio 4 to launch new stand-up strand
Comedians' shows adapted for Sunday slot
17/08/2017 … Radio 4 has announced a new weekly stand-up strand.
Smart arses
Buttock-baring, critic-baiting comedy up for theatre award
17/08/2017 … A show in which three international female comedy performers respond to their reviews has been nominated for a Total Theatre Award at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Flat broke
Comedians stung by Edinburgh Fringe accommodation scam
17/08/2017 … Edinburgh Fringe performers have spoken of how they fell victim to a scam over their festival accommodation.
Edinburgh one-off for Nish Kumar
Part of a fundraiser for refugees
17/08/2017 … Nish Kumar has announced his only full-length Fringe show this year – as part of an all-day fundraiser to help save the lives of refugees taking the perilous…