© Andy Hollingworth BBC commissions Bill Bailey sitcom
Pilot for comedy set in wildlife park
08/10/2016 … The BBC has commissioned a pilot of a new Bill Bailey sitcom based in a wildlife park.
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Sat 08 October 2016
© Andy Hollingworth Fri 07 October 2016
BBC One signs Ivan Brackenbury
Full series of Hospital People ordered
07/10/2016 … Inept hospital DJ Ivan Brackenbury has been given his own BBC One series, following a successful pilot.
© BBC/Two Brothers Pictures Fleabag returns to the stage
Phoebe Waller-Bridge goes back to Soho
07/10/2016 … Phoebe Waller-Bridge is taking BBC sleeper hit Fleabag back to the stage.
Ade Edmondson becomes a children's author
07/10/2016 … Adrian Edmondson is to become the latest comedian to turn to children’s literature.
'Nobody's penis was that big...'
07/10/2016 … •'Every time I go out to do Just a Minute, I am conscious I might never work again.
Why Black Mirror is like Fawlty Towers...
Charlie Brooker speaks about new series
07/10/2016 … Even the grimmest episode of Black Mirror is based on the same principles as comedy writing, creator Charlie Brooker has said.
Thu 06 October 2016
'A Miranda for the Snapchat generation'
Hart plans new comedy about a clumsy teen
06/10/2016 … Miranda Hart is developing a children's comedy drama about a teenage agony aunt.
Is Victoria Coren Mitchell the new Jeremy Clarkson?
06/10/2016 … It could be the antidote to the laddish feel of Top Gear – but Radio 4 is launching a new comedy talk show called Women Talking About Cars.