Latest British Comedy News
Bradley Walsh to return with more Blankety Blank
Friday 23rd April 2021
Bradley Walsh is to host Blankety Blank again. Producers are preparing to film the iconic game show this summer.
BBC Wales reveals new TV comedy pilots
Thursday 22nd April 2021
BBC Wales is piloting a series of comedy shorts. They include a television adaptation of the BBC Radio Wales police sitcom Bravo Two Charlies, Beena And Amrit starring Meera Syal, and Mammoth from stand-up Mike Bubbins.
BBC pilots PE teacher sitcom from Mike Bubbins
Thursday 22nd April 2021
Mike Bubbins is piloting Mammoth, a BBC sitcom about a swaggeringly macho 1970s PE teacher.
Maddy Anholt becomes Women's Aid ambassador
Thursday 22nd April 2021
Comedian Maddy Anholt is the new Women's Aid ambassador for Love Respect, a website to support teenage girls at risk of relationship abuse and to challenge myths surrounding coercive control and abuse.
Comedies nominated in Audio & Radio Industry Awards
Wednesday 21st April 2021
The nominees for the Audio & Radio Industry Awards 2021 (ARIAS) include The Musical Life Of..., Sketchtopia, The Skewer, Jason Manford and the podcasts Alan Partridge: From The Oasthouse and Kim Noble: Futile Attempts (At Surviving Tomorrow).
Unseen Victoria Wood scripts to be published
Tuesday 20th April 2021
A book featuring previously unseen Victoria Wood scripts is to be published by her official biographer Jasper Rees.
#SaveLiveComedy Fund launched as impact of covid revealed
Tuesday 20th April 2021
A survey has revealed that the situation for most people working in live comedy has continued to deteriorate. A hardship fund has been created to try and help those most in need.
Rob Beckett to publish a memoir in October
Monday 19th April 2021
Rob Beckett is the latest comedian to have written a memoir over lockdown. A Class Act will be published in October.
Conversations From A Long Marriage to return for Series 3
Sunday 18th April 2021
Conversations From A Long Marriage, the Radio 4 comedy starring Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam, has been commissioned for a third series.
Mel & Sue plotting live comedy return
Friday 16th April 2021
Mel & Sue are planning to return to live comedy as a double act, Giedroyc has revealed. She said: "The last conversation that Sue and I had a few days ago, we ended up saying, 'When the Edinburgh Festival's back on again, shall we do it?'".
Comedy Slices revealed as BBC marks female representation milestone
Friday 16th April 2021
Four further Comedy Slices pilots have been confirmed - Dinosaur, Britney, Ladybaby and Amicable - as BBC Three reveals it has reached a "watershed moment" in broadcasting history with most of its comedy now starring, written by or created by women.
Broadcast Awards 2021 comedy nominees revealed
Thursday 15th April 2021
Feel Good, Friday Night Dinner, Ghosts, Inside No. 9, Man Like Mobeen and This Country are amongst the nominees for the Broadcast Awards 2021.
Disney+ orders superhero comedy Extraordinary
Thursday 15th April 2021
Writer and comedian Emma Moran has written Disney+'s first UK comedy series. Extraordinary follows Jen, a young, self-aware woman who lives in a world where everyone has a superpower - except her.
Paul O'Grady's Saturday Night Line-Up series coming to ITV
Thursday 15th April 2021
Paul O'Grady is returning to Saturday night primetime television with a new show combining chat show and game show elements. ITV has ordered a series of Paul O'Grady's Saturday Night Line-Up.
Ladhood Series 2 now filming
Tuesday 13th April 2021
Filming has started on six more episodes of Ladhood, the BBC Three comedy written by and starring Liam Williams.
Jimmy Carr has written his autobiography
Monday 12th April 2021
Jimmy Carr has written his autobiography in the form of a self-help book. Before & Laughter will be published on 28th September.
Benidorm star Nathan Bryon co-writes first film
Monday 12th April 2021
Benidorm star Nathan Bryon and his regular collaborator Tom Melia have written a rom-com feature film. Vibes & Stuff - which stars Vivian Oparah and David Jonsson - is about meeting the right person at the worst possible time.
Harry Hill has written his autobiography
Monday 12th April 2021
Harry Hill has written his memoirs. Harry Hill's Fight!: Thirty Years Not Quite at the Top will be published in November.
Paul Merton and Suki Webster to film Channel 5 motorhome series
Monday 12th April 2021
Married comedians Paul Merton and Suki Webster are to film a Channel 5 series titled Motorhoming With Merton & Webster.
Josh Widdicombe has written his autobiography
Saturday 10th April 2021
Josh Widdicombe has written his first book. Watching the Nineties is described as "part-childhood memoir, part-comic history of Nineties television and culture".