British Comedy Guide 2021 News Archive
Here is a list of all the news stories we published in 2021.
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 - Channel 4 announces Friday Night Dinner Night
Thursday 14th January 2021 - 'The Vicar Of Dibley: Inside Out' tribute documentary to air on Gold
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