Scottish banker becomes Fringe chair
Benny Higgins to lead festival's post-pandemic recovery
26/03/2021 … Scottish banker Benny Higgins has been appointed chair of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society.
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Arrested Development star Jessica Walter dies at 80
Actress also voiced Malory Archer in Archer
25/03/2021 … Jessica Walter, who played controlling Bluth family matriarch Lucille in Arrested Development, has died at the age of 80.
Is this the year's first live stand-up gig?
This comic's not waiting for venues to reopen
25/03/2021 … A stand-up is claiming the first live, in-person comedy show of 2021 – long before venues are allowed to reopen.
© BBC/Merman Motherland set for US remake
Bridesmaids director Paul Feig working with UK writers
25/03/2021 … Motherland is set to be remade for an American audience.
Wed 24 March 2021
Ready for take-off?
Newer writers get mentoring via The Female Pilot Club
24/03/2021 … Five comedy writers, including stand-up Athena Kugblenu, are to receive mentoring from established TV names in a bid to improve the gender balance.
© Idil Sukan A literary heavyweight?
James McNicholas turns his Fringe hit The Boxer into a book
24/03/2021 … Comedian James McNicholas has turned his acclaimed 2019 Edinburgh Fringe show The Boxer into a book.
Air date for Katherine Parkinson's Sitting
Edinburgh Fringe play comes to BBC Four
24/03/2021 … BBC Four has confirmed a broadcast date for Katherine Parkinson’s debut play Sitting.
© BBC Studios Trying again
Apple orders a third series of Esther Smith and Rafe Spall comedy
24/03/2021 … Apple TV+ has commissioned its comedy Trying – starring Esther Smith and Rafe Spall as a couple going through an adoption – for a third series.