Another BBC New Comedy Award heat winner named
Aaron Simmonds males the semis
14/07/2017 … Aaron Simmonds has won tonight’s heat of this year’s BBC New Comedy Award.
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Fri 14 July 2017
© BBC/Goodnight Vienna Productions New sitcom for Car Share's Sian Gibson
...as BBC launches a comedy bursary for Northern women
14/07/2017 … Car Share star Sian Gibson is developing a new sitcom with the BBC.
Launch date for Nick Helm's food travel show
14/07/2017 … TV channel Dave has revealed the launch date of comedy food travelogue Eat Your Heart Out With Nick Helm.
Thu 13 July 2017
© Channel 4 Carrie Fisher up for an Emmy
Posthumous honour for her role in Catastrophe
13/07/2017 … Carrie Fisher has been posthumously nominated for an Emmy award for her role in Catastrophe.
Miranda's Sarah Hadland joins Jason Manford cartoon
Daisy & Ollie launches in October
13/07/2017 … Miranda star Sarah Hadland has joined the cast of Jason Manford’s forthcoming kids’ cartoon Daisy & Ollie.
Patton is Patt-off
Oswalt cancels London and Galway dates
13/07/2017 … Patton Oswalt has cancelled his upcoming shows in Galway and London.
© TV3 Tara Flynn joins Irish Blind Date
13/07/2017 … Comedian Tara Flynn is to provide the voiceover when Ireland makes its own version of Blind Date.
Wed 12 July 2017
Sarajevo salutes John Cleese
12/07/2017 … John Cleese is to be honoured by the Sarajevo Film Festival next month, Calling him the ‘world's living legend of comedy’, organisers are…