All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
© Channel 4 Broadcaster has rights to series 2
18/03/2022 … Channel 4 has snapped up the rights to the satirical period comedy-drama The Great, which will air thus summer The Emmy-nominated series stars Elle Fanning as Catherine…
© BBC Full series for Whatever Happened To Baby Jane Austen?
18/03/2022 … Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders have recorded a full series of Whatever Happened To Baby Jane Austen? David Quantick – whose credits include Veep…
18/03/2022 … Monkey Barrel Comedy has announced its programme for the 2022 Edinburgh Fringe, This year will be the venue’s biggest festival yet, with more than 70 acts…
Winners announced later this month
17/03/2022 … The polls have now closed on this year’s Chortle Award, with almost 10,000 votes cast.
© ITV Stand-up contracts Covid ahead of BBC telethon
17/03/2022 … Joel Dommett has had to pull out of hosting the BBC’s Red Nose Day telethon after testing positive for Covid.
© BBC Star of To The Manor Born and so many comedies
17/03/2022 … Peter Bowles, the character actor best known for playing the roguish Richard DeVere in To The Manor Born, has died at the age of 85.
Club is back, seven years after closing its venue
17/03/2022 … Manchester’s Frog and Bucket comedy club is returning to Preston, more than seven years after closing its venue there.
© ITV From Broadchurch star Andy Buchan
17/03/2022 … ITV has commissioned a darkly comic horror series from Broadchurch star Andy Buchan.
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