British Comedy Guide 2021 News Archive
Here is a list of all the news stories we published in 2021.
May 2021
- Chuckle Brothers to return via animated pilot
Tuesday 11th May 2021 - Alma's Not Normal series filming in Bolton
Monday 10th May 2021 - Comedy Central reveals three new shows
Monday 10th May 2021 - Dylan Moran creates new BBC sitcom
Friday 7th May 2021 - Anneka Rice writing sitcom about her fake agent
Friday 7th May 2021 - Home axed by Channel 4
Thursday 6th May 2021 - Cast revealed for UK version of 'Call My Agent!'
Thursday 6th May 2021 - Sindhu Vee pilots sitcom Winning for Channel 4
Wednesday 5th May 2021 - CBBC announces period family comedy Dodger
Wednesday 5th May 2021 - Comedy commissioner Shane Allen quits BBC to form Boffola Pictures
Wednesday 5th May 2021 - Victor Meldrew to return
Wednesday 5th May 2021 - Richard Ayoade to host Question Team on Dave
Wednesday 5th May 2021 - Fern Brady, Darren Harriott and Ivo Graham front British As Folk
Wednesday 5th May 2021 - Tom Allen to host Dave show The Island
Wednesday 5th May 2021 - David Mitchell hosts challenge show Outsiders
Wednesday 5th May 2021 - Spice Girls reportedly planning Spice World sequel
Tuesday 4th May 2021 - Rose Matafeo confirms Starstruck Series 2 in production
Tuesday 4th May 2021 - Nina Sosanya leads cast in Channel 4 prison comedy Screw
Tuesday 4th May 2021 - Guz Khan reveals Man Like Mobeen Series 4 will end the show
Saturday 1st May 2021
April 2021
- Paul Sinha's TV Showdown to return for Series 2
Friday 30th April 2021 - Joe Lycett to publish glossy coffee table book of bins
Friday 30th April 2021 - Lauren Pattison writes debut play
Friday 30th April 2021 - Katherine Ryan reveals Netflix has cancelled The Duchess
Thursday 29th April 2021 - Widowhood comedy Wife After Death in development
Thursday 29th April 2021 - Rhod Gilbert's Growing Pains gets second series
Thursday 29th April 2021 - Jon Richardson's Channel Hopping returns for Series 2
Thursday 29th April 2021 - Al Murray's stalker barred from attending his shows
Wednesday 28th April 2021 - BAFTA TV Awards 2021 nominations
Wednesday 28th April 2021 - Ken Cheng and Leila Navabi host CBBC show
Tuesday 27th April 2021 - Spencer Jones's The Mind Of Herbert Clunkerdunk to return
Tuesday 27th April 2021 - Katherine Ryan hosts ITV2 dating game show Ready To Mingle
Monday 26th April 2021 - Sandylands Series 2 in production
Monday 26th April 2021 - Comedy stars join time-travel film The Unreason
Saturday 24th April 2021 - Andi Osho is writing a novel about a stand-up comedian
Friday 23rd April 2021 - Steve Coogan movie The Lost King begins filming
Friday 23rd April 2021 - Bradley Walsh to return with more Blankety Blank
Friday 23rd April 2021 - BBC Wales reveals new TV comedy pilots
Thursday 22nd April 2021 - BBC pilots PE teacher sitcom from Mike Bubbins
Thursday 22nd April 2021 - Maddy Anholt becomes Women's Aid ambassador
Thursday 22nd April 2021 - Comedies nominated in Audio & Radio Industry Awards
Wednesday 21st April 2021 - Unseen Victoria Wood scripts to be published
Tuesday 20th April 2021 - #SaveLiveComedy Fund launched as impact of covid revealed
Tuesday 20th April 2021 - Rob Beckett to publish a memoir in October
Monday 19th April 2021 - Conversations From A Long Marriage to return for Series 3
Sunday 18th April 2021 - Mel & Sue plotting live comedy return
Friday 16th April 2021 - Comedy Slices revealed as BBC marks female representation milestone
Friday 16th April 2021 - Broadcast Awards 2021 comedy nominees revealed
Thursday 15th April 2021 - Disney+ orders superhero comedy Extraordinary
Thursday 15th April 2021 - Paul O'Grady's Saturday Night Line-Up series coming to ITV
Thursday 15th April 2021 - Ladhood Series 2 now filming
Tuesday 13th April 2021 - Jimmy Carr has written his autobiography
Monday 12th April 2021 - Benidorm star Nathan Bryon co-writes first film
Monday 12th April 2021 - Harry Hill has written his autobiography
Monday 12th April 2021 - Paul Merton and Suki Webster to film Channel 5 motorhome series
Monday 12th April 2021 - Josh Widdicombe has written his autobiography
Saturday 10th April 2021 - Cold Feet could return soon with specials
Friday 9th April 2021 - Alleyway Chefs pilot published online
Thursday 8th April 2021 - Ricky Gervais to launch new podcast
Thursday 8th April 2021 - Ciarán Dowd films Don Rodolfo for BBC Two
Wednesday 7th April 2021 - Meet The Richardsons set to return for Series 3
Tuesday 6th April 2021 - Ben Miller to play a zombie in The Loneliest Boy In The World
Tuesday 6th April 2021 - Friday Night Dinner star Paul Ritter dies aged 54
Tuesday 6th April 2021 - Hi-De-Hi! star Jeffrey Holland to pilot Simply Ken sitcom
Saturday 3rd April 2021 - Jessica Hynes and Ryan Sampson pilot Catching The Bus
Friday 2nd April 2021 - Lost Voice Guy finds his Geordie voice
Thursday 1st April 2021 - Mel Giedroyc's Unforgivable to return for Series 2
Thursday 1st April 2021 - Sitcom creators Marks & Gran to publish comedy writing guide
Thursday 1st April 2021 - Ghosts to be remade in America
Thursday 1st April 2021
March 2021
- Back To Life Series 2 filming now with Meera Syal and Adrian Edmondson
Wednesday 31st March 2021 - Mo Gilligan to publish autobiography
Wednesday 31st March 2021 - Cruise ship slasher comedy Wrecked coming to BBC Three
Tuesday 30th March 2021 - Defending The Guilty's second series cancelled because of coronavirus
Tuesday 30th March 2021 - Lenny Henry given Legend Of Comedy award
Monday 29th March 2021 - Maya Jama joins Celebrity Juice panel
Monday 29th March 2021 - Katherine Ryan goes Backstage with Amazon for Q&A show
Monday 29th March 2021 - Shappi Khorsandi writes novel about teen sexual abuse, Kissing Emma
Monday 29th March 2021 - Jerk Series 2 begins filming
Monday 29th March 2021 - Chortle Awards names Legends Of Lockdown
Sunday 28th March 2021 - Comedian Leo Kearse to run for Scots Parliament
Sunday 28th March 2021 - Billie Piper and Andrew Scott to star in Catherine, Called Birdy
Sunday 28th March 2021 - Emily Atack Show returns for Series 2
Sunday 28th March 2021 - The Skewer wins at BBC Audio Awards
Friday 26th March 2021 - Motherland to be re-made in America
Thursday 25th March 2021 - Staged to arrive on BritBox with extended length episodes
Wednesday 24th March 2021 - Trying to return to Apple TV+ for Series 3
Wednesday 24th March 2021 - Ken Dodd comedy drama in the works for ITV
Wednesday 24th March 2021 - Worzel Gummidge episodes filming this summer
Wednesday 24th March 2021 - James McNicholas to publish The Champ & The Chump book
Wednesday 24th March 2021 - Bob Mortimer is to publish his autobiography
Wednesday 24th March 2021 - Douglas Adams archive book to be published
Tuesday 23rd March 2021 - Julian Clary to publish autobiography The Lick Of Love
Tuesday 23rd March 2021 - Jack Whitehall to publish How To Survive Family Holidays book
Friday 19th March 2021 - Andrew Doyle to join GB News
Friday 19th March 2021 - The Mash Report may move to Dave
Friday 19th March 2021 - Romantic comedy drama You & Me coming to ITV
Thursday 18th March 2021 - Athena Kugblenu creates Radio 4 series about cancel culture
Wednesday 17th March 2021 - In My Skin to return for Series 2
Wednesday 17th March 2021 - Relativity to return to Radio 4 for Series 4
Wednesday 17th March 2021 - Mae Martin and Joe Lycett amongst RTS winners
Wednesday 17th March 2021 - Geoff Norcott to record Radio 4 stand-up special
Tuesday 16th March 2021 - Adam Kay to write more children's books
Tuesday 16th March 2021 - Fawlty Towers to be released as vinyl LP collection
Tuesday 16th March 2021 - There's Something About Movies returning for Series 4
Monday 15th March 2021 - Shaun The Sheep 2: Farmageddon gets Oscar nomination
Monday 15th March 2021 - Starstruck cast confirmed
Monday 15th March 2021 - Flatmates to return to BBC iPlayer for Series 2
Friday 12th March 2021 - Staged and Gone Fishing win Broadcasting Press Guild Awards
Friday 12th March 2021 - Exploding Heads launch sitcom that only one person will hear
Friday 12th March 2021 - The Mash Report axed after four series
Friday 12th March 2021 - Jack Whitehall's Travels With My Father gets Series 5
Thursday 11th March 2021 - Mark Steel writing book about finding his birth parents
Thursday 11th March 2021 - Alfie Moore's Radio 4 comedy It's A Fair Cop returns for Series 6
Thursday 11th March 2021 - Miranda Hart, Greg Davies and Alice Lowe BBC sketch pilot uncovered
Thursday 11th March 2021 - Iain Stirling's Buffering series confirmed by ITV2
Wednesday 10th March 2021 - Deborah Frances-White to write Six Conversations We're Scared To Have
Wednesday 10th March 2021 - Red Nose Day 2021 highlights revealed
Tuesday 9th March 2021 - Harry Hill's Queen episode removed from BBC Two schedule
Tuesday 9th March 2021 - Trevor Peacock who played Jim in The Vicar Of Dibley dies aged 89
Tuesday 9th March 2021 - Would I Lie To You? to be remade in America
Tuesday 9th March 2021 - Ashley Storrie starring in BBC autism comedy Dinosaur
Monday 8th March 2021 - Comic Maddy Anholt to publish book on toxic relationships
Monday 8th March 2021 - Arthur Smith writing book and Radio 4 special about his father
Sunday 7th March 2021 - John Cleese writes emu film with Rob Schneider
Saturday 6th March 2021 - Ignacio Lopez to record radio stand-up special
Thursday 4th March 2021 - Daisy May Cooper suspends own Instagram account in publishing row
Thursday 4th March 2021 - Russell Brand to release audiobook about "the sacred in everyday life"
Wednesday 3rd March 2021 - Daisy May Cooper to publish memoir
Wednesday 3rd March 2021 - Joe Lycett's Got Your Back is back for Series 3
Wednesday 3rd March 2021 - Coma sitcom pilot Beep to air on the BBC this March
Wednesday 3rd March 2021 - Royal Television Society Awards 2021 nominations
Tuesday 2nd March 2021 - Finding Alice to return for Series 2
Monday 1st March 2021 - Comedian panel revealed for BBC One series This Is MY House
Monday 1st March 2021 - Guessable to return for second series
Monday 1st March 2021
February 2021
- Leicester Comedy Festival 2021 Awards nominees
Friday 26th February 2021 - BBC Two's Funny Festival Live line-up revealed
Wednesday 24th February 2021 - Billy Connolly to publish his autobiography in October
Wednesday 24th February 2021 - Tom Allen to host Quizness on Channel 4
Wednesday 24th February 2021 - Phil Wang to publish first book, Sidesplitter
Wednesday 24th February 2021 - BBC Three commissions PRU, Zen School Of Motoring & shorts
Tuesday 23rd February 2021 - Bananaman to return in new cartoon series
Monday 22nd February 2021 - Katherine Parkinson creates BBC Four comedy drama Sitting
Sunday 21st February 2021 - Phoebe Waller-Bridge becomes Edinburgh Fringe Society president
Friday 19th February 2021 - Nish Kumar to release stand-up albums
Thursday 18th February 2021 - Staged script book set to be published
Thursday 18th February 2021 - CelebAbility returning for Series 5
Thursday 18th February 2021 - Helena Bonham Carter amongst cast joining Greg Davies in The Cleaner
Thursday 18th February 2021 - Comedies nominated in Broadcasting Press Guild Awards
Thursday 18th February 2021 - Alan Carr is working on a sitcom about his childhood
Monday 15th February 2021 - Matt Lucas to celebrate 50 years of Mr Men
Monday 15th February 2021 - Comedy writer Iain Pattinson has died
Monday 15th February 2021 - BBC to broadcast The Festival Of Funny
Monday 15th February 2021 - Patrick Kielty records Radio 4 stand-up show
Monday 15th February 2021 - Truth Seekers cancelled after one series
Sunday 14th February 2021 - Toast Of Tinseltown announced for BBC One
Wednesday 10th February 2021 - George Fouracres to record Radio 4 stand-up special
Tuesday 9th February 2021 - Comedy.co.uk Awards 2020 winners
Monday 8th February 2021 - Daliso Chaponda joins judging panel for Wodehouse book contest
Friday 5th February 2021 - BBC comedy declared "at risk"
Friday 5th February 2021 - 'Murder, They Hope' cast revealed
Friday 5th February 2021 - Stevo The Madman piloting BBC comedy
Friday 5th February 2021 - Lost Voice Guy's sitcom Ability being piloted for TV
Thursday 4th February 2021 - Matt Richardson replacing Rufus Hound on Dancing On Ice
Thursday 4th February 2021 - Rose Matafeo's Horndog comes to BBC ahead of Starstruck Series 2
Thursday 4th February 2021 - Dawn French and Peter Serafinowicz record Timewaster Letters
Thursday 4th February 2021 - Fergus Craig announces Roger LeCarre novel
Wednesday 3rd February 2021 - Sarah Kendall's Frayed to return to Sky for Series 2
Wednesday 3rd February 2021 - Russell Tovey & Sian Clifford star in new improvised film
Tuesday 2nd February 2021 - Red Nose Day 2021 is on Friday 19th March
Tuesday 2nd February 2021 - Only Fools And Horses stamps to be released by Royal Mail
Tuesday 2nd February 2021 - Jim Smith shoots The Farm sitcom pilot for BBC Scotland
Monday 1st February 2021
January 2021
- Dating No Filter reveals comedian line-ups
Friday 29th January 2021 - French & Saunders film Funny Women documentary special
Friday 29th January 2021 - Comedy stars take part in Celebrity Bake Off 2021
Thursday 28th January 2021 - Judi Love & Emily Atack land new comedy series
Thursday 28th January 2021 - Patrick Kielty stars as a stand-up in new film Ballywalter
Thursday 28th January 2021 - Miles Jupp writes his first novel
Thursday 28th January 2021 - Mack and Salt land BBC Three comedy pilot Amicable
Wednesday 27th January 2021 - Inside No. 9 Series 6 cast revealed
Wednesday 27th January 2021 - E4 pilots animated dating comedy
Tuesday 26th January 2021 - Katherine Ryan to publish autobiography
Tuesday 26th January 2021 - Greg Davies's therapy comedy Safe Space gets Sky series
Monday 25th January 2021 - Russell Howard filming New Zealand tour travelogue for Sky
Monday 25th January 2021 - Michael McIntyre's The Wheel to return for Series 2
Sunday 24th January 2021 - Only Fools And Horses van to be auctioned
Saturday 23rd January 2021 - Peter Kay's Car Share car up for sale
Friday 22nd January 2021 - Channel 4 pulls out of Year Of The Rabbit Series 2
Thursday 21st January 2021 - Jason Manford to host BBC quiz show Unbeatable
Thursday 21st January 2021 - Lost Voice Guy's Ability to return to Radio 4
Tuesday 19th January 2021 - Lucy Beaumont writes a "mumoir" book
Tuesday 19th January 2021 - Brittas Empire cast to reunite for online event
Tuesday 19th January 2021 - Noel Fielding's designs for fashion label Fendi unveiled
Monday 18th January 2021 - BBC snaps up acclaimed comedy about racism in British film industry
Friday 15th January 2021 - Sophie Thompson and Tony Way to star in The Unreason
Friday 15th January 2021 - Vic Reeves & Morgana Robinson star in sitcom podcast
Thursday 14th January 2021 - Adam Hills writing a children's book
Thursday 14th January 2021 - Stranger Times book set to become TV show
Thursday 14th January 2021 - 'The Vicar Of Dibley: Inside Out' tribute documentary to air on Gold
Thursday 14th January 2021 - Channel 4 announces Friday Night Dinner Night
Thursday 14th January 2021 - Timewasters to be piloted in America
Wednesday 13th January 2021 - Friday Night Dinner gets documentary but maybe no new series
Wednesday 13th January 2021 - Simon Bird directs Pls Like Series 3
Wednesday 13th January 2021 - Mat Horne co-writes comedy drama about a man on the run
Wednesday 13th January 2021 - Stephen Merchant's The Offenders gets second series
Wednesday 13th January 2021 - Mother F**king Pep Talk coming to Comedy Central
Tuesday 12th January 2021 - Mr Bean live action return mooted
Monday 11th January 2021 - ITV to air unseen footage of Ronnie Corbett
Monday 11th January 2021 - Comedy.co.uk Awards 2020 shortlist
Monday 11th January 2021 - Ian Smith to record comedy documentary for Radio 4
Monday 11th January 2021 - Radio 4 comedies nominated in BBC Audio Awards 2020
Friday 8th January 2021 - Michael Palin to publish fourth diary collection
Friday 8th January 2021 - Mortimer & Whitehouse launch Gone Fishing website
Thursday 7th January 2021 - Spamalot film to go into production
Thursday 7th January 2021 - Alexei Sayle to record two more Radio 4 series
Wednesday 6th January 2021 - Mr Bean animated film in development
Tuesday 5th January 2021 - Rowan Atkinson may return as Blackadder one day
Tuesday 5th January 2021 - John Bishop joins Doctor Who for next series
Friday 1st January 2021 - Blankety Blank most-watched new TV comedy in 2020
Friday 1st January 2021