News Archive
Below are links to all the news stories we have published in the past...
March 2010
February 2010
- Musical comedian Jason Wood dies
- SeeSaw video website launches with 15 comedies
- Radio 2 to increase its comedy output
- Britain's top comedians to take part in massive C4 comedy gala
- BBC2 orders second series of Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle
- Simon Nye writes new Radio 2 comedy
- The Persuasionists moved to 'graveyard' slot
- Mark Thomas searches for General Election candidate
- In The Loop and Wallace & Gromit gain Oscar nominations
January 2010
- Steve Carell: I want to star in US version of Only Fools and Horses
- Armando Iannucci denies claims a Thick Of It special has been axed
- Outnumbered wins Broadcast award
- Loaded LAFTA results announced
- Michael McIntyre strikes 'golden handcuffs' deal with BBC
- Special Psychoville screening announced
- The Thick Of It wins South Bank Show Award
- BBC3 orders second series of Lunch Monkeys
- Comedy.co.uk Awards results reveal best and worst comedies of 2009
- Frank Skinner to receive 'legend' award at Loaded LAFTAS
- More4 looking to order a full series of Todd Margaret
- Stephen Fry and Gavin & Stacey pick up National Television Awards
- Poll reveals that Harry Hill fans are opposed to TV Burp moving to Sky
- Campaign launched to try and vote Tommy Trinder to the top of C4 poll
- BBC3 commissions new sitcom starring Will Mellor
- David Walliams, Jimmy Car and Miranda Hart to cycle for Sports Relief
- Sky attempting to poach TV Burp from ITV in £3m deal
- New comedy video website launches
- McIntyre doesn't want Jonathan Ross slot, may sign with ITV
- Channel 4 orders a full series of Victoria Pile's Campus
- Graham Norton will not replace Jonathan Ross
- Home Time, Inbetweeners and Thick Of It nominated in South Bank awards
- Full details on BBC Three's Spring comedy offerings
- Jonathan Ross to leave BBC
- Russell Brand engaged to Katy Perry
- Graham Norton signs £4m BBC deal, Jonathan Ross deal still uncertain
- Noel Fielding to star in Paddington Bear movie
- Comedy.co.uk Awards voting opens
- Benidorm, Gavin & Stacey, TV Burp and Inbetweeners up for NTA Award
December 2009
- Adam and Joe to quit BBC 6 Music?
- Frankie Boyle will not be replaced on Mock the Week
- American network NBC orders How Not To Live Your Life pilot
- Victoria Wood 'furious' with BBC for not giving her Christmas Day slot
- Michael McIntyres Comedy Roadshow most watched comedy on iPlayer
- Jonathan Ross 'offers £3m pay cut'
- E4 orders second series of Misfits
- Not Going Out is back from the dead
- Jongleurs clubs to be re-launched as 'Highlight'
- Miranda gets a second series
- Bad Christmas sales for comedians' books, but DVDs selling well
- James Corden to present World Cup football show?
- Eddie Izzard given special award at BBC Sports Personality ceremony
- British Comedy Awards 2009 - Results
- Alan Partridge movie to be based in USA
- Chris Addison to present new 5 Live comedy show
- Karl Pilkington to front Sky1 travel series
- Early release of Gavin & Stacey DVDs causes a row
- Baddiel and Skinner to present World Cup podcasts
- Ricky Gervais cartoon to be screened on Channel 4
- Justin Lee Collins to sing in Eurovision for Ireland?
- Chris Morris jihadi comedy film to be shown at Sundance Festival
- BBC2 orders a full series of The Stephen K Amos Show
- Inbetweeners star Simon Bird to star in new E4 pilot
- Comedy boss admits BBC 'playing it safe'
- 2010 Loaded LAFTAS shortlist announced
November 2009
- Fraudsters steal £200k from Gervais - caught using David Brent photo
- Broadcast Awards shortlist announced
- Peter Kay to host 2010 Brit Awards
- Jack Dee and Peter Capaldi to star in new radio comedy
- Second series of Psychoville ordered
- Channel 4 puts its comedy archive on YouTube
- Jongleurs production company launched
- C4 orders full series of Comedy Showcase pilot Pete v Life
- 'Camp' presenters Norton and Carr criticised by gay rights campaigner
- BBC's Comedy College lands first commission
- Ben Elton launches tirade against the Royal Family
- 2009 British Comedy Award nominations
- Peter Kay to return to stand-up
- Little Britain stars writing new comedy
- More details on Catherine Tate Show Christmas special
- Mighty Boosh stars to present Radio 2 Monty Python music documentary
- Outnumbered, Peep Show, IT Crowd shortlisted in Writers' Guild Awards
- Argumental to show on BBC Two
- How Not To Live Your Life recommissioned
October 2009
- Tom Hollander to star as a frustrated urban vicar in new BBC2 sitcom
- Frankie Boyle complains about Mock The Week producers
- Peter Kay to host Royal Variety Show
- James Corden to host new sports-based panel show for Sky
- Mock the Week 'humiliated' Olympic sportswoman
- Jack Dee named new host of ISIHAC
- Red Dwarf S10 for Dave
- Brand new Dwarf
- Channel 4 comedy to boom?
- BBC orders full series of 'The Bubble' hosted by David Mitchell
- Nicholas Lyndhurst to star in Only Fools and Horses prequel
- Police to investigate British Comedy Awards scandal?
- Frankie Boyle quits Mock The Week
- BBC pitches classic sitcoms to American market
September 2009
- CBBC signs up Johnny Vegas and Rufus Hound for TV shows
- Men in Coats get TV show
- Armstrong and Miller to star in spoof web review videos
- Frankie Boyle taken ill during Mock The Week rehearsals
- BBC boss: we need to make more comedy as its a 'market failure' genre
- BBC accused of using English crew to film Scottish sitcoms
- America to pilot HIGNFY
- My Family suffers budget cut
- Gavin and Stacey set for US remake
- Movie version of The Inbetweeners in production
- Channel 4's August comedies attracted more than 200 complaints
- National Television Awards voting opened
- Michael McIntyre signs £1m book deal, & his Comedy Roadshow to return
- Jonathan Ross to return as host of the British Comedy Awards
- CBBC order 3rd series of 'Got No Head' and a sitcom spin-off
- Star Stories axed
- BBC1 to pilot new topical comedy show
August 2009
- Tim Key wins 2009 Edinburgh Comedy Award
- BBC3 orders 6 more episodes of monologue based Mouth To Mouth
- BBC3 orders topical comedy show hosted by Russell Howard
- BBC2 looking for female-friendly panel show format
- Channel Five quits on comedy
- Channel 4 to pilot The Frankie Boyle Show
- CBBC orders puppet comedy from Jim Henson Company
- Cheryl Taylor named new BBC Comedy Commissioner
- Justin Lee Collins signs big money deal with Channel Five
- Edinburgh Comedy Awards shortlist announced
- Krod Mandoon may return
- Getting On recommissioned
- Angus Deayton to return for HIGNFY anniversary special?
- Reeves and Mortimer to make a 2nd series of Catterick for the web?
- Reece Shearsmith to presents a two-part horror show on Radio 4
- Lead Balloon gets 4th series
- Noel Fielding axed from Buzzcocks
- Race hots up for BBC comedy job
- 3rd series for Armstrong and Miller confirmed
- C4 reveals viewers complained of Michael Jackson jokes
- Inbetweeners given 3rd series
- Sacha Baron Cohen to star in Eurovision movie
July 2009
- Olivia Lee to star in Comedy Central prank show
- Frank Skinner to host new Fantasy Cricket show?
- ITV3's Ladies of Letters to return
- Jonny Sweet to star as David Cameron in More 4 drama
- David Walliams: there will be no more Little Britain series
- Simon Pegg's autobiography delayed
- Psychoville director Matt Lipsey to work on new BBC2 cop comedy
- BBC3 orders new puppet comedy from Two Pints team
- HD repeats of Mr Bean to mark 20th anniversary
- Sky offers Harry Hill big pay rise to defect with TV Burp
- Mark Watson to host new football-based panel show for 5 Live
- Parkinson joins comedy sexism debate
- The Sunday Night Project to end?
- BBC Three announces new Two Pints specials
- Noel Fielding to star in zombie record-attempt movie
- Frankie Boyle launches podcast
- BBC Trust highlights comedy failings
- BBC1 working on Morecambe and Wise biopic
- Simon Bird to host new panel show pilot
- Veteran comedy writer Vince Powell dies
- Fry, Iannucci, Mitchell and Ross in MediaGuardian 100
- BBC1 announces autumn line-up: full details
- Dave signs repeat deal with Channel 4
- Eamonn Holmes fronts new celebrity-based panel show
- BFI to celebrate career of Tommy Trinder
- BBC3 orders 6th series of Ideal
- Channel 4 announces its 2009 Comedy Showcase line-up
- Monty Python's Flying Circus stars to reunite for 40th birthday bash
- Radio 4 comedy roadshow aims to attract uni students to the station
- Hit CBBC sketch show Horrible Histories gets a second series
- Liz Smith set to retire
- Simon Nye to write new Just William adaptation
- Trotters to return in Only Fools and Horses prequel
- CBBC announces Jinx, a new kids comedy series
- BBC1 turns down Don't Wait Up revival
- 'Are You Being Served?' star Mollie Sugden has died
- BBC orders second series of Reggie Perrin
June 2009
- Frankie Boyle to quit in two years
- Ricky Gervais slams British comedy
- Armstrong and Freeman to star in comedy drama about 80s computer race
- Last of the Summer Wine safe
- TNT Show pulled for Michael Jackson gag
- BBC2 orders full series of 'Whites'
- Classic sitcom Butterflies to return?
- Victoria Wood to film new Xmas special
- Charlie Brooker's Gameswipe commissioned
- BBC Comedy's Lucy Lumsden quits
- Hancock's Half Hour episodes recovered
- Lost 1950s British comedy films found
- 'The Old Guys' recommissioned
- Mitchell & Webb have 'rejected' their own sitcom
- Jo Brand joins voices saying panel shows are too male-dominated
- Channel 4 to put its entire comedy archive online for free
- Caroline Aherne pens new comedy drama
- BBC4 orders more We Need Answers
- Danny La Rue dies at 81
- Monty Python was nearly axed mid-series
- Australia to launch their own TV Burp
- Pozzitive Productions launch new website
May 2009
- Ladies Of Letters gets ITV1 repeat
- Shearsmith: 'Psychoville our best work yet'
- BBC orders online sketch show
- ITV films new celebrity prank show
- Rick Mayall stars in new film about how not to make a movie
- Alan B'Stard says MPs were not greedy enough
- BBC Switch's online sitcom Fresh! is transferring to TV
- Shappi Khorsandi gets her own Radio 4 comedy series
- Count Arthur to get BBC4 series?
- Robert Lindsay to star in journalism satire
- Arrested Development star Will Arnett to feature in Comedy Lab pilot
- US version of Ab Fab a no go
- Ross under fire for 'homophobic' comment
- Dean Hardman wins The Sitcom Trials 2009
- BBC launches Comedy Extra website
- Sky 1 attempting to 'steal' TV Burp from ITV1
- Martin Clunes: John Cleese hasn't been funny since the 80s
- 7 On 7 re-named Newsjack. Tickets now available
- Russell Tovey to star in BBC3 sitcom pilot
- Count Arthur Strong wins Gold at Sonys
- Fawlty Towers doc scores for G.O.L.D
- Viewers complain about Russ Abbot in Last Of The Summer Wine
- 8 Out Of 10 Cats tickets released
- First new Rock Profile video published
- Peter Kay: 'No intention' of cracking US
- Last of the Summer Wine to be axed?
- Paul Merton to host Clement Freud tribute
- Russell Howard to front BBC3 topical panel show pilot
- Christian O'Connell to host new Five Live comedy show
- Rory Bremner's show a casualty of credit crunch
- Porridge to run in the West End
- Andy Zaltzman to host comedy show about cricket
- Dawn French to star in new BBC2 sitcom
- Worst Week Of My Life goes French
- Kim Fuller to finish Douglas Adams' final Dirk Gently novel
- My Family wins Rose D'Or award
- BBC2 pilots new panel show
- BBC say no to a return of Alistair McGowan's Big Impression
- Lindsay and Wanamaker slag off My Family scripts
- Hat Trick boss reveals company was close to collapse
- Mark Watson to front Magners ad campaign
April 2009
- Psychoville to get BFI preview
- Graham Norton 'battling to save BBC deal'
- BBC brags about Horne And Corden
- Flanimals by Ricky Gervais going to Hollywood
- Russell Brand to star in re-make of flop movie
- That Mitchell and Webb Look re-commissioned
- Terry Jones is to have baby with his Swedish girlfriend
- Reggie Perrin scores 5m viewers
- Thick Of It moved to BBC2. Will star Rebecca Front
- 2009 BAFTA Results
- Omid Djalili rants at BBC3 controller Danny Cohen
- Simon Amstell quits Never Mind The Buzzcocks
- Full line-up for Michael McIntyre's Roadshow announced
- Radio 4 pilot new topical panel show
- The Thick Of It USA back on cards
- Growing anger at axing of Not Going Out
- BBC Two announces Summer 09 schedule
- BBC America buys Inbetweeners and Katy Brand Show
- The Comedy Store to open in India
- New Jonathan Creek special next Easter
- BBC Comedy's Mark Freeland attempts to defend Horne & Corden
- French & Saunders to get Bafta Fellowship award on Sunday
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