I have only just noticed the comedy film section. Hurrah, it's great! I am now planning to spend at least 73.5% of my online time looking through it

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Live At The Apollo's Christmas Special is on BBC 2 tonight at ten past ten but it seems to have been left off the BCG schedule and front page.

Why has there been no newsletters since 23rd November? I was expected a big Christmas newsletter but got nothing at all. Rather disappointed, if I'm honest.

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I'm not quite sure whay that means. Is it a ladies' part?

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Why has there been no newsletters since 23rd November? I was expected a big Christmas newsletter but got nothing at all. Rather disappointed, if I'm honest.

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Thanks for noticing it has been missing, and sorry for not sending one!

I know it's not the same, but you can still get all the info via our TV pages...

We've been a bit busy this December so have not been able to compile many features, or the newsletter, sorry. We've been focused on working on a new version of this website instead, which you should get to see in mid-January... lots of big improvements coming!

The other thing is that, when you have a big mailing list like we do, sending emails is not actually free. Using a bulk mail server costs quite a lot actually... and, for various reasons, we couldn't really afford to run it this month. The new site will have a "Plus" membership option which gives you extra features - more details on that in the New Year, but if you'd like to help us pay the bills please do consider signing up for it when you see it launch! Thanks!

Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas in the meantime!

Tomorrow's 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown, on the guise, says 30mins when it's an hour.

Crisis averted.

Thanks Nil, now corrected.

Your home page has not been showing - at least to US IP addresses - for 3 or 4 days now. If you Google the site and choose any other of your pages, it's fine; just the home page (http;//www.comedy.co.uk/) fails to connect. All of the connecting pages are http not https and they are live, not cached (there was a banner on the home page last week offering to try your 'new' site, which I think was just a secured version - https). As most people on PCs navigate to your site via a bookmark/favourite and it now leads to a dead end, many are going to believe the site has ceased operating, permanently.

That is very odd, David. Can you confirm you've tried other browsers/operating systems/computers/internet connections, all with the same result?

We'll look into it.

Just tried it on my laptop with an entirely different set-up (OS and browser). Same result: every page except the home page is accessible (home page gets a 'cannot display the web page' error screen). I pretty much live online (sadly) and visit tons of sites every day. Definitely a problem with your site, perhaps something to do with the 'try our new site' activity of last week. You could probably replicate the problem using a US proxy/VPN IP address. I say this because if it applied to UK IP addresses you would be getting many other messages.

Is the following accessible? https://www.comedy.co.uk/people/david_croft/

Aaron, sorry for the delay in responding (NFL playoffs here). So, no, that page fails to connect. Again, I can pretty much go anywhere on the site except for the homepage. This includes - and I should have mentioned this the first time - even if I'm on the site via Googling it and picking something other than the homepage result, I can navigate everywhere once on the site - EXCEPT the home page.

Now that you pointed out the 'People' section to me, that is the only other page that won't connect. TV, Radio, News, Features, Shop, Schedule, etc. all work fine. Hope this helps.

Hi David,

Thanks again for your feedback. We've trialled the website through a number of US proxy services and all load fine. Have you restarted your router, or talked to your ISP? We've not had a single other report of problems like this.

What is the exact error message you get when trying to reach our new https homepage?

For what it's worth, I can access https://www.comedy.co.uk/ just fine from Texas.