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© Andrew Max Levy Accolades for Sid Singh and producer Lydia Mason too
25/08/2023 … Julia Masli, Sid Singh and the late Laughing Horse producer Lydia Mason have all scooped accolades at this year’s Comedians' Choice Awards at the Edinburgh…
© BBC 'It feels like a no-brainer to get the band back together'
24/08/2023 … The BBC has ordered a second series of its hit comedy thriller Black Ops.
© Steve Ullathorne 36th year of new act competition
24/08/2023 … Samira Banks has been crowned the 36th winner of So You Think You’re Funny?, the UK’s longest-running comedy newcomer competition.
© Matt Holyoak 24/08/2023 … Jimmy Carr is to host a new comedy reality gameshow in which pairs of comedians and celebrities will have to spend 24 hours locked in box – competing against…
© C4 Simon Bird's doomsday cult comedy to return
24/08/2023 … Channel 4 has ordered a second series of its doomsday cult comedy Everyone Else Burns.
© Channel 4 Six-part series follows a Comedy Blap last year
24/08/2023 … Rosie Jones is to star in a new six-part Channel 4 comedy called Disability Benefits.
© Channel 4 Channel 4 orders a second series for 2024
24/08/2023 … Channel 4 has ordered a second series of Joe Lycett’s Late Night Lycett to air next year.
© Sky Gemma Arterton to return to Sky comedy
24/08/2023 … Sky has ordered a second series of the comedy-drama Funny Woman, about a comic trying to make it in the male-dominated scene of the 1960s.
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