Janey Godley steps down from panto role
Fallout from offensive old tweets continues
10/09/2021 … Janey Godley will not now be performing in panto this Christmas as the fallout from her offensive old tweets continues.
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Fri 10 September 2021
Ghosts star Kiell Smith-Bynoe becomes a kids' entertainer
...in a new musical comedy that's not for children
10/09/2021 … Ghosts star Kiell Smith-Bynoe is to star in a new musical comedy about two rival children’s entertainers.
© Netflix After Life wins National TV Award
...and Celtic Media Festival names comedy winners, too
10/09/2021 … Ricky Gervais’s After Life was named most popular comedy at the National TV Awards last night Accepting the award – the only major accolade to…
Thu 09 September 2021
Scottish government drops Janey Godley ads
Comedian apologies as more 'horrifically despicable' tweets emerge
09/09/2021 … Janey Godley has been dropped from the Scottish government’s public health campaign amid controversy over her offensive old tweets.
© BBC Third series for Liam Williams's Ladhood
Coming of age comedy to return
09/09/2021 … The BBC has ordered a third series of Liam Williams’s coming-of-age comedy Ladhood.
© Camden Productions BBC comedy pilot for stand-up Kat Sadler
Alongside her real-life sister
09/09/2021 … Stand-up Kat Sadler and her sister Lizzie Davidson are to play fictional siblings in a new BBC comedy pilot.
© BBC BBC commission for social media comic Soph Galustian
New shorts about 'council estate, high school' life in Manchester
09/09/2021 … Comedy writer Soph Galustian has landed her first BBC commission on the back of her sketches and monologues released on social media.
© Warner Media BBC pilots Mawaan Rizwan's Juice
Starring his real-life brother and mother
09/09/2021 … Mawaan Rizwan is piloting a BBC comedy based on his family life.