Jennifer Saunders to star in new Mike Myers series
Netflix show about shadowy society The Pentaverate
09/06/2021 … Jennifer Saunders is to co-star alongside Mike Myers in a new Netflix series called The Pentaverate.
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Wed 09 June 2021
© Sky/CPL Rob & Romesh Vs returns to Sky One
09/06/2021 … Rob & Romesh Vs will return to Sky One next month, the broadcaster has announced.
Caimh McDonnell sells the screen rights to his novels
With Chris Addison set to adapt them
09/06/2021 … The crime thrillers of comedian turned novelist Caimh McDonnell could be turned into a TV or film series after the rights were sold to production company Avalon.
New sitcom for Bill Bailey
Radio 4 show about a middle-aged man and his imaginary childhood friend
09/06/2021 … Bill Bailey is to star in a new BBC comedy about a middle-aged man who suddenly meets up with his imaginary childhood friend.
Tue 08 June 2021
The Windsors to become a West End stage show
Harry Enfield to play the Prince Of Wales... at the Prince Of Wales Theatre
08/06/2021 … Channel 4’s Royal family sitcom The Windsors is to hit the West End stage this summer.
© Anna Shvets/Pexels What makes comedians special? It's all in the mind...
Researchers find comics have different brains from everyone else
08/06/2021 … Comedians might like to think their brains are wired differently than everybody else’s – and now scientific research has proved it.
Dom Joly to release a comic travel audiobook
About his trips around England
08/06/2021 … Dom Joly is to release comic travel audiobook about his trips around England, entitled Such Miserable Weather.
© BBC Mark and Elliot Steel's sitcom picked up by Radio 4
Unite also stars Ivo Graham and Claire Skinner
08/06/2021 … Radio 4 has picked up the sitcom Unite - staring father-and-son comedians Mark and Elliot Steel – for a full series.