British Comedy Guide 2024 news archive
Here is a list of all the news stories we published in 2024.
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Frank Sidebottom CD collection contains previously un-heard tracks
Sunday 5th May 2024 -
BBC pilots hidden camera game show Sneaky Sneaky for primetime
Friday 3rd May 2024 -
Inside No. 9 stage show confirmed
Friday 3rd May 2024 -
Gavin & Stacey 2024 Christmas special confirmed
Friday 3rd May 2024 -
Dane Baptiste dropped by agent after misogynist death threat
Thursday 2nd May 2024 -
Sarah Parish and Mark Heap to star in Piglets
Wednesday 1st May 2024 -
ITVX to live stream Edinburgh Fringe shows
Wednesday 1st May 2024 -
Lauren Pattison stars in Radio 4 sitcom Tom And Lauren Are Going OOT
Tuesday 30th April 2024 -
Rhys Nicholson to tour in September and October
Tuesday 30th April 2024 -
Amy Gledhill announces Make Me Look Fit On The Poster tour
Tuesday 30th April 2024 -
Ben Elton is considering a Blackadder play
Tuesday 30th April 2024 -
Topical panel show 'What Just Happened?' returns to BBC Radio Wales
Monday 29th April 2024 -
Hullraisers ends after two series
Monday 29th April 2024 -
Green Wing cast reunite for Audible podcast series
Monday 29th April 2024 -
Jack Rooke wins BAFTA for comedy writing
Sunday 28th April 2024 -
Frank Skinner to star in Radio 4 sitcom about a charity
Friday 26th April 2024 -
Fantasy Football League cancelled
Thursday 25th April 2024 -
Sky orders specials from Stewart Lee, John Kearns, Tom Davis and more
Wednesday 24th April 2024 -
Joe Lycett's United States Of Birmingham coming to Sky Max
Tuesday 23rd April 2024 -
Colin Hoult announces 2024 tour
Tuesday 23rd April 2024 -
Helen Lederer receives 2024 Bath Plug Award
Tuesday 23rd April 2024 -
Luke Richards wins Bath New Act 2024 competition
Tuesday 23rd April 2024 -
Ian Smith Is Stressed arriving angst-ridden this summer on Radio 4
Monday 22nd April 2024 -
The Windsors put "on hold" by Channel 4 after King's cancer diagnosis
Friday 19th April 2024 -
Ivo Graham to publish book about his failures
Thursday 18th April 2024 -
Rik Mayall comedy festival planned for Droitwich
Thursday 18th April 2024 -
Gary Little: At Large - Radio 4 release for ex-con's jail tales
Wednesday 17th April 2024 -
Charlie Russell to star in comic play about composer Fanny Mendelssohn
Wednesday 17th April 2024 -
Harriet Kemsley to tour Everything Always Works Out For Me show
Wednesday 17th April 2024 -
Jimmy Carr working on "The Rosetta Stone Of Comedy" course and book
Tuesday 16th April 2024 -
Joe Lycett to publish art book
Sunday 14th April 2024 -
Tom Towelling wins Musical Comedy Awards 2024
Saturday 13th April 2024 -
Jon Richardson and Lucy Beaumont to divorce
Friday 12th April 2024 -
Liam Harney and Rachel Barker win Luke Rollason's 2024 bursary
Friday 12th April 2024 -
OUTflix to air five stand-up specials
Thursday 11th April 2024 -
Holly Ludlow wins West End New Act of the Year 2024
Tuesday 9th April 2024 -
Michael Akadiri to tour Trust Me, I'm A Daddy
Monday 8th April 2024 -
Chris McCausland & Lee Mack to star in Sky festive special Bad Tidings
Monday 8th April 2024 -
BBC Comedy Festival 2024 sessions revealed
Monday 8th April 2024 -
Ted Milligan & James Trickey win 'Sketch Off!' 2024 final
Sunday 7th April 2024 -
BBC axes King Gary and Goes Wrong Show
Saturday 6th April 2024 -
Ivo Graham to host new version of Radio 4 format Obsessions
Friday 5th April 2024 -
Joe Tracini & "Mick" front Channel 4 film Me And The Voice In My Head
Wednesday 3rd April 2024 -
Tom Jordan appointed creative director of comedy at Tiger Aspect
Wednesday 3rd April 2024 -
Roger Allam amongst cast for Brighton-based comedy film Promenade
Wednesday 3rd April 2024 -
Robin Morgan to tour The Spark stand-up show
Wednesday 3rd April 2024 -
Susie McCabe wins Sir Billy Connolly Spirit of Glasgow Award
Saturday 30th March 2024 -
Motherland has ended
Wednesday 27th March 2024 -
Victoria Wood Playwriting Prize for Comedy shortlist announced
Wednesday 27th March 2024 -
Extraordinary, Juice, Rob & Romesh and Black Ops win RTS Awards
Wednesday 27th March 2024 -
Laura Smyth, James Acaster and Frank Skinner amongst ARIAS nominees
Wednesday 27th March 2024 -
Sam Campbell pilots Channel 4 guerilla film series 'Make That Movie!'
Tuesday 26th March 2024 -
The Dad's Army Radio Show announce 2024 tour dates
Tuesday 26th March 2024 -
Daniel Foxx to release Bedtime Stories For Privileged Children book
Tuesday 26th March 2024 -
Jerry Sadowitz plans online version of his 1990s TV show
Tuesday 26th March 2024 -
Greg Davies returns to stand-up with new show Full Fat Legend
Tuesday 26th March 2024 -
Stewart Lee announces new live show, The Man-Wulf
Tuesday 26th March 2024 -
Graeme Garden wins Lifetime Achievement Award at BBC Audio Awards
Monday 25th March 2024 -
Picture This rom-com coming to Prime Video
Friday 22nd March 2024 -
Bill Bailey writes My Animals And Other Animals memoir
Thursday 21st March 2024 -
The Mash Report's Tim Telling pens killer squirrel comedy The Scurry
Wednesday 20th March 2024 -
BAFTA TV Awards 2024 nominations
Wednesday 20th March 2024 -
Leicester Comedy Festival Awards 2024 results
Monday 18th March 2024 -
Ian Stone to tour new stand-up show
Monday 18th March 2024 -
Maisie Adam announces 2024 tour
Tuesday 12th March 2024 -
Sitcom producer/director John B Hobbs dies
Friday 8th March 2024 -
Royal Television Society Awards 2024 nominations
Thursday 7th March 2024 -
The Now Show to conclude after 64 series
Wednesday 6th March 2024 -
Larry Dean to take stand-up show Dodger on tour
Wednesday 6th March 2024 -
Milton Jones announces 2024 stand-up tour Ha!Milton
Wednesday 6th March 2024 -
The Chris McCausland Show is coming to ITV1
Tuesday 5th March 2024 -
Pierre Novellie writes autism memoir 'Why Can't I Just Enjoy Things?'
Tuesday 5th March 2024 -
Chortle Awards 2024 results
Monday 4th March 2024 -
Leicester Comedy Festival 2024 Awards nominees
Monday 4th March 2024 -
Tom Ward to tour Choose Your Delusion show
Friday 1st March 2024 -
Rosie Holt to publish book satirising the Government
Friday 1st March 2024 -
Have I Got Sport For You in development
Thursday 29th February 2024 -
Katherine Ryan to tour new stand-up show Battleaxe
Wednesday 28th February 2024 -
Eshaan Akbar to head out on 2025 tour
Wednesday 28th February 2024 -
Red Nose Day 2024 to include Alan Partridge and The Traitors
Wednesday 28th February 2024 -
Eva Bindeman wins Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year 2024
Sunday 25th February 2024 -
The Kumars to return to TV
Friday 23rd February 2024 -
Heather Basten wins Best Casting in a TV Comedy Series award
Thursday 22nd February 2024 -
Ruth Bratt joins The Comedy Store Players
Thursday 22nd February 2024 -
Christina Riggs & Peter Tellouche are BBC Studios' 2024 staff writers
Thursday 22nd February 2024 -
Janice Okoh pens BBC comedy drama about siblings with a missing mum
Thursday 22nd February 2024 -
Gareth Southgate play Dear England to become BBC series
Thursday 22nd February 2024 -
Scrapper director Charlotte Regan creates crime family series for BBC
Thursday 22nd February 2024 -
Film Club romcom series coming to BBC Three
Thursday 22nd February 2024 -
Geoff Norcott to present 'Is University Really Worth It?' documentary
Wednesday 21st February 2024 -
Cinema and 4K Blu-ray releases for Ealing classic comedies
Wednesday 21st February 2024 -
Leigh Francis to publish autobiography
Wednesday 21st February 2024 -
Kevin Daniel wins Silver Stand-Up 2024 competition
Wednesday 21st February 2024 -
Ewen MacIntosh: Big Keith from The Office dies aged 50
Wednesday 21st February 2024 -
Frankie Boyle writes A Short History Of The Apocalypse
Wednesday 21st February 2024 -
Jenny Eclair to publish autobiography
Tuesday 20th February 2024 -
Jason Byrne to tour following run in Edinburgh
Tuesday 20th February 2024 -
Rob Beckett to tour stand-up show Giraffe across 2024 to 2026
Tuesday 20th February 2024 -
Punt & Dennis to tour live show We Are Not A Robot
Monday 19th February 2024 -
Terry Gilliam and Robert Lindsay get Slapstick Festival awards
Monday 19th February 2024 -
Extraordinary's Luke Rollason stars in two upcoming films
Saturday 17th February 2024 -
Andrew Fox wins Komedia New Comedy Award 2024
Friday 16th February 2024 -
David Nobbs Memorial Trust 2024 writing competition opens
Friday 16th February 2024 -
Bingo Comedy Caller 2024 competition launched by Dabbers
Thursday 15th February 2024 -
Ruth Jones pours cold water on Gavin & Stacey reunion reports
Wednesday 14th February 2024 -
Radio 4 orders Chloe Petts' Toilet Humour
Wednesday 14th February 2024 -
Lucy Porter to tour No Regrets across 2024 and 2025
Wednesday 14th February 2024 -
Gavin & Stacey to return for 2024 Christmas special
Tuesday 13th February 2024 -
Kev Mud wins UK Pun Championship 2024
Tuesday 13th February 2024 -
Comedy.co.uk Awards 2023 winners
Monday 12th February 2024 -
Omid Djalili to tour new show Namaste
Monday 12th February 2024 -
Emily Allen joins Sky Studios as comedy commissioner
Monday 12th February 2024 -
Janey Godley writes Not Dead Yet memoir as The C Bomb returns to R4
Saturday 10th February 2024 -
Richard Ayoade pens doppelganger memoir The Unfinished Harauld Hughes
Saturday 10th February 2024 -
Johnny English 4 to film this summer
Saturday 10th February 2024 -
Karen Gillan is Mary Tudor in Fools from Outnumbered's Guy Jenkin
Friday 9th February 2024 -
Adrian Edmondson films Bottom documentary
Friday 9th February 2024 -
Black Ops wins at Broadcast Awards 2024
Friday 9th February 2024 -
Chortle Awards 2024 nominees announced
Thursday 8th February 2024 -
Russell Hicks to head out on first UK tour
Thursday 8th February 2024 -
Scott Agnew lands debut Radio 4 series Dead Man Talking
Thursday 8th February 2024 -
Les Dennis to star in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
Wednesday 7th February 2024 -
Romesh & Shanthi's Parental Guidance quiz piloted for ITV
Tuesday 6th February 2024 -
BBC Comedy Festival 2024 confirmed for 22nd - 24th May in Glasgow
Monday 5th February 2024 -
Philomena Cunk to return in BBC special Cunk's Quest For Meaning
Monday 5th February 2024 -
Dreaming Whilst Black gets Series 2 commission
Monday 5th February 2024 -
Man Like Mobeen Series 5 confirmed
Monday 5th February 2024 -
Alan Partridge to return in new BBC comedy series And Did Those Feet
Monday 5th February 2024 -
Dad's Army legend Ian Lavender dies aged 77
Monday 5th February 2024 -
Gregor Fisher & Greg McHugh to star in BBC One sitcom Only Child
Monday 5th February 2024 -
Edinburgh Fringe to launch 'festival village' rooms for participants
Monday 5th February 2024 -
Steve Brown, the prolific comedy composer, has died
Saturday 3rd February 2024 -
Laura Lexx to tour stand-up show Slinky
Friday 2nd February 2024 -
Fawlty Towers to premiere on West End stage
Friday 2nd February 2024 -
The Pin's Ben Ashenden & Alexander Owen pen Amazon film Deep Cover
Thursday 1st February 2024 -
Stan & Gran preschool comedy to air on Channel 5
Wednesday 31st January 2024 -
Lenny Henry to host Red Nose Day for final time on Friday 15th March
Wednesday 31st January 2024 -
CDG Casting Awards 2024 comedy nominees revealed
Tuesday 30th January 2024 -
The Real Ken Dodd film lobbies for creation of national comedy museum
Tuesday 30th January 2024 -
Fern Brady wins Nero Book Awards prize
Tuesday 30th January 2024 -
Stevens & McCarthy and The Chief return to BBC Scotland
Tuesday 30th January 2024 -
Eddie Kadi curates stand-up showcase for BBC Radio 1Xtra and iPlayer
Friday 26th January 2024 -
The Fast Show: 30th anniversary live shows announced
Thursday 25th January 2024 -
Nish Kumar reveals 2024 tour
Tuesday 23rd January 2024 -
Crongton book series to become BBC Children's comedy drama
Monday 22nd January 2024 -
Aurie Styla lands Radio 4 stand-up technology series Tech Talk
Friday 19th January 2024 -
Phil Ellis amongst winners at North West Comedy Awards 2024
Thursday 18th January 2024 -
Jamali Maddix to investigate cults in Dave series Follow The Leader
Thursday 18th January 2024 -
Lou Sanders announces 2025 tour
Thursday 18th January 2024 -
Best Medicine to return to Radio 4 for second series
Wednesday 17th January 2024 -
Radio 4 announces a raft of new comedy series
Monday 15th January 2024 -
Taskmaster Series 17 line-up revealed
Sunday 14th January 2024 -
Janey Godley documentary Janey coming to cinemas and the BBC
Friday 12th January 2024 -
'Am I Being Unreasonable?' recommissioned for Series 3
Thursday 11th January 2024 -
Phil Ellis to tour his award-winning show
Thursday 11th January 2024 -
Ghosts was the most-watched TV comedy of 2023
Wednesday 10th January 2024 -
Paddy McGuinness pilots Paddy mockumentary for the BBC
Tuesday 9th January 2024 -
Marjolein Robertson announces her UK debut tour
Tuesday 9th January 2024 -
Greg Davies' The Cleaner returning to BBC One for a third series
Tuesday 9th January 2024 -
BBC Comedy Collective 2024 applications open 11th January
Monday 8th January 2024 -
The Horne Section to publish guide to music for kids
Monday 8th January 2024 -
Maid Marian And Her Merry Men stage show confirmed
Monday 8th January 2024 -
Comedy.co.uk Awards 2023 shortlist
Monday 8th January 2024 -
Jojo Sutherland records her first Radio 4 special, Riches To Rags
Monday 8th January 2024 -
Andrew Bird named Comics' Comic 2023
Monday 8th January 2024 -
Mr Bean animated series to return for Series 4
Thursday 4th January 2024 -
DMs Are Open to return for Series 3, with changes
Tuesday 2nd January 2024