British Comedy Guide 2021 News Archive
Here is a list of all the news stories we published in 2021.
September 2021
- Tim Minchin's Upright returning for Series 2
Monday 27th September 2021 - Will Mars wins Malcolm Hardee Award 2021
Monday 27th September 2021 - Sophie McCartney signs two book deal
Sunday 26th September 2021 - Steve Coogan to play Jimmy Savile
Sunday 26th September 2021 - Sex Education Series 4 confirmed
Sunday 26th September 2021 - Funny Women Awards 2021 results
Friday 24th September 2021 - Film stars revealed for Netflix show Attack Of The Hollywood Clichés
Friday 24th September 2021 - Nicola Walker and Sean Bean to star in Marriage
Friday 24th September 2021 - Frankie Boyle's New World Order returning for Series 5
Thursday 23rd September 2021 - Derry Girls stars reunite for "Oirish" spoof as Channel 4 sitcom ends
Thursday 23rd September 2021 - Rufus Sewell and Olivia Williams reunite for dark comedy film
Thursday 23rd September 2021 - Newcastle named BBC's first City Of Comedy
Thursday 23rd September 2021 - Last Of The Summer Wine star Robert Fyfe dies aged 90
Thursday 23rd September 2021 - Sharon Horgan writes and stars in Apple TV+ series Emerald
Tuesday 21st September 2021 - Joe Kent-Walters wins Chortle Student Comedy Award 2021
Tuesday 21st September 2021 - Tom Basden's sitcom Pandemonium ordered by BBC
Monday 20th September 2021 - Philomena Cunk returns to BBC Two
Monday 20th September 2021 - Only Fools And Horses star John Challis dies aged 79
Sunday 19th September 2021 - Geoff Norcott turns 'agony uncle' for Radio 4's Never Kissed A Tory
Sunday 19th September 2021 - Brandon Burke wins BCG Pro Performance Awards 2020
Friday 17th September 2021 - Newsjack axed by the BBC
Friday 17th September 2021 - Mark Gatiss amongst Inside No. 9 Series 7 guest stars
Friday 17th September 2021 - Sara Pascoe to replace Joe Lycett on Great British Sewing Bee
Thursday 16th September 2021 - Simon Amstell readying mid-life crisis film
Wednesday 15th September 2021 - Mrs Brown's Boys to mark 10th anniversary with Halloween special
Wednesday 15th September 2021 - Early Doors Live released for NHS charity
Monday 13th September 2021 - Joe Lycett & Josh Widdicombe film 'Who Do You Think You Are?'
Monday 13th September 2021 - Janey Godley dropped from Scottish government's coronavirus campaign
Friday 10th September 2021 - Detectorists' Mackenzie Crook & Toby Jones reunite in Worzel Gummidge
Friday 10th September 2021 - Ladhood Series 3 confirmed
Thursday 9th September 2021 - Russell Tovey joins Mawaan Rizwan's BBC sitcom pilot Juice
Thursday 9th September 2021 - Instagram sketch comic Soph Galustian pilots BBC sitcom Peck'Eds
Thursday 9th September 2021 - Kat Sadler pilots new BBC sitcom 'such brave girls'
Thursday 9th September 2021 - New Peter Kay autobiography and audiobook
Wednesday 8th September 2021 - Stand-up Lynn Ruth Miller dies aged 87
Wednesday 8th September 2021 - Burnistoun set for film return
Wednesday 8th September 2021 - Comedians film stand-up sets for Sky's The Deirdre O'Kane Show
Wednesday 8th September 2021 - Comedies in the running for Edinburgh TV Festival Awards 2021
Wednesday 8th September 2021 - Max And Paddy to return?
Wednesday 8th September 2021 - Nish Kumar guests on hip hop album
Tuesday 7th September 2021 - Molly Rainford to star in CBBC's Nova Jones
Tuesday 7th September 2021 - Actor Tony Selby dies aged 83
Monday 6th September 2021 - God Squad sitcom coming to Radio 4
Monday 6th September 2021 - Stand-up comedian Phil Jerrod dies
Monday 6th September 2021 - Russell Howard shoots 2022 Netflix special
Friday 3rd September 2021 - Chris and Rosie Ramsey land BBC chat show
Friday 3rd September 2021 - Stath Lets Flats Series 3 guest stars revealed
Friday 3rd September 2021 - Ian Hislop and Nick Newman working on Italian opera house screenplay
Thursday 2nd September 2021 - Code 404 set to return for Series 3
Wednesday 1st September 2021
August 2021
- Omar Badawy wins 'So You Think You're Funny?' 2021
Friday 27th August 2021 - French & Saunders developing new sitcom
Thursday 26th August 2021 - Backstage With Katherine Ryan guests revealed
Thursday 26th August 2021 - Tom Davis and PJDN team begin filming Channel 4 heist comedy The Curse
Thursday 26th August 2021 - Ruth Jones and Rob Brydon star in Comedy Playhouse pilot Gaynor & Ray
Wednesday 25th August 2021 - Lee Mack & Holly Willoughby to host new BBC One reality show
Wednesday 25th August 2021 - Gbemisola Ikumelo brings undercover cop comedy Black Ops to BBC
Wednesday 25th August 2021 - Tom Parry writes first film, Amazon rom-com 'Your Christmas Or Mine?'
Wednesday 25th August 2021 - Face It monologues to be released on BBC iPlayer
Wednesday 25th August 2021 - Friday Night Dinner's Robert Popper creates I Hate You for Channel 4
Wednesday 25th August 2021 - Queenie coming to Channel 4
Wednesday 25th August 2021 - Charlie Brooker and Rob Lowe take aim at movie clichés for Netflix
Tuesday 24th August 2021 - Josh Widdicombe and Alex Brooker front Channel 4's 'One Night In...'
Tuesday 24th August 2021 - Shaun Keaveny to narrate Absolute Radio's first scripted comedy
Monday 23rd August 2021 - John Cleese to investigate cancel culture
Monday 23rd August 2021 - Allan 'Seapa' Mustafa to star in BBC Three gym comedy Peacock
Saturday 21st August 2021 - Jo Hartley to star in mockumentary film Swede Caroline
Friday 20th August 2021 - Sean Lock dies aged 58
Wednesday 18th August 2021 - Mawaan Rizwan piloting BBC comedy
Tuesday 17th August 2021 - Bill Bailey's Royal Opera House special to air on the BBC
Tuesday 17th August 2021 - Desiree Burch to host "throuple" dating show
Monday 16th August 2021 - Comedy Unleashed to record TV stand-up pilot
Monday 16th August 2021 - Dara O Briain to host Channel 4 quiz
Monday 16th August 2021 - Leicester Comedy Festival to publish All Puns Blazing joke book
Monday 16th August 2021 - Judi Love joins Strictly Come Dancing 2021
Friday 13th August 2021 - Una Stubbs dies aged 84
Thursday 12th August 2021 - Nina Wadia to compete in Strictly Come Dancing 2021
Thursday 12th August 2021 - Nish Kumar and Josh Widdicombe pilot Sky show about local newspapers
Wednesday 11th August 2021 - Tessa Coates and Stevie Martin write Nobody Panic self-help guide
Tuesday 10th August 2021 - Comedies in the running for Broadcast Digital Awards 2021
Monday 9th August 2021 - Union JACK Radio launches live comedy nights
Monday 9th August 2021 - Bloods gets a second series
Thursday 5th August 2021 - Comedy Central pilots transatlantic version of Joke Thieves
Thursday 5th August 2021 - Radio 4 orders raft of comedies for 2022
Thursday 5th August 2021 - Robert Webb to compete in Strictly Come Dancing 2021
Wednesday 4th August 2021 - Ann Widdecombe and Anton Du Beke wanted to make flatshare sitcom
Wednesday 4th August 2021 - The Day Today team reunite for 30th anniversary celebration
Wednesday 4th August 2021 - Rob Beckett and Jason Manford land Comedy Central shows
Monday 2nd August 2021
July 2021
- Edinburgh Fringe inspires television comedy drama
Thursday 29th July 2021 - Reg D Hunter makes film debut with Eddie Izzard & Jennifer Saunders
Thursday 29th July 2021 - Mandy starring Diane Morgan to return for Series 2
Thursday 29th July 2021 - David Baddiel making BBC documentary about social media abuse
Thursday 29th July 2021 - Outnumbered creators writing "mad" World Cup comedy
Thursday 29th July 2021 - Rosie Jones's 'Mission: Accessible' returns for Series 2
Thursday 29th July 2021 - Peep Show creators tried to make a female spin-off with Dobby
Wednesday 28th July 2021 - The Mash Report to return on Dave
Wednesday 28th July 2021 - Flaps returns to Comedy Central for Series 2
Monday 26th July 2021 - Rob Rouse stars in Pubwatch sitcom pilot
Saturday 24th July 2021 - Stephen Fry to publish a book about ties
Saturday 24th July 2021 - Harry Enfield making BBC history spoof for its centenary
Friday 23rd July 2021 - Big Age sitcom pilot to broadcast on Channel 4
Friday 23rd July 2021 - Gemma Arterton set to star in Nick Hornby's Funny Girl for Sky
Thursday 22nd July 2021 - Jon Richardson to host Channel 4 show Trash Monsters
Thursday 22nd July 2021 - The Birth Of Daniel F Harris coming to Channel 4
Thursday 22nd July 2021 - Lenny Henry and Neil Gaiman bring Anansi Boys to Amazon Prime
Thursday 22nd July 2021 - The Other One to return for Series 2
Thursday 22nd July 2021 - Mark Dolan joins GB News
Wednesday 21st July 2021 - Sue Perkins to host Just A Minute
Tuesday 20th July 2021 - People Just Do Nothing documentary coming to BBC
Tuesday 20th July 2021 - Morecambe & Wise's wiped BBC1 debut found
Tuesday 20th July 2021 - Mawaan Rizwan becomes BBC's Young People's Comedy Laureate
Monday 19th July 2021 - Tom O'Connor dies aged 81
Sunday 18th July 2021 - George Lewis writes book offering advice to new dads
Friday 16th July 2021 - Comedians Giving Lectures Series 2 and 3 line-ups revealed
Friday 16th July 2021 - Tom Allen, Jessica Knappett and Munya Chawawa host Complaints Welcome
Thursday 15th July 2021 - Only Fools And Horses book to mark show's 40th anniversary
Thursday 15th July 2021 - Greg Davies to host Never Mind The Buzzcocks on Sky
Wednesday 14th July 2021 - Comedy club threatened with violence for cancelling Lawrence gig
Wednesday 14th July 2021 - Eggs Collective land Silky Hotel comedy for the BBC
Tuesday 13th July 2021 - James Corden to star in Amazon Prime comedy drama Mammals
Tuesday 13th July 2021 - Andrew Lawrence sparks outrage with tweets "stirring up racism"
Monday 12th July 2021 - Jimmy Carr to host frenetic Channel 4 quiz I Literally Just Told You
Monday 12th July 2021 - Kurupt FM wins Best Comedy Podcast 2021
Monday 12th July 2021 - Baddiel, Skinner & The Lightning Seeds to reunite on The Last Leg
Friday 9th July 2021 - The Pub Landlord to ask Why Do The Brits Win Every War?
Thursday 8th July 2021 - Guy Kennaway wins 2021 Wodehouse Prize
Thursday 8th July 2021 - Paddy McGuinness to host A Question Of Sport
Thursday 8th July 2021 - Dr Phil Hammond presents Radio 4 comedy series celebrating NHS
Wednesday 7th July 2021 - The Mind Of Herbert Clunkerdunk Series 2 now filming
Wednesday 7th July 2021 - James Acaster lands film role in Cinderella
Wednesday 7th July 2021 - Comedians record NHS charity single
Tuesday 6th July 2021 - John Cleese plans Life Of Brian stage show
Monday 5th July 2021 - Hullraisers sitcom series coming to Channel 4
Friday 2nd July 2021
June 2021
- Michael McIntyre to publish A Funny Life autobiography
Wednesday 30th June 2021 - Catherine Tate creates prison comedy Hard Cell for Netflix
Wednesday 30th June 2021 - Simon Bird and Jonny Sweet sign with BBC Studios
Wednesday 30th June 2021 - Billy Connolly to reflect on stand-up in new Gold series
Wednesday 30th June 2021 - Good Omens Series 2 confirmed
Tuesday 29th June 2021 - Romesh Ranganathan to host Weakest Link
Monday 28th June 2021 - Simon Pegg adapting Galaxy Quest for television
Friday 25th June 2021 - This Is Going To Hurt TV series completes filming
Friday 25th June 2021 - Chris & Rosie Ramsey pilot BBC show helping family businesses
Thursday 24th June 2021 - Romesh Ranganathan becomes new A League Of Their Own host
Thursday 24th June 2021 - Lynn Ruth Miller records a Radio 4 stand-up special at 87
Wednesday 23rd June 2021 - The Horne Section shoots Channel 4 pilot
Wednesday 23rd June 2021 - The Misinvestigations Of Romesh Ranganathan coming to BBC Two
Wednesday 23rd June 2021 - Jordan Brookes to record his Edinburgh Comedy Award-winning show
Tuesday 22nd June 2021 - Romesh Ranganathan to present hip hop show on Radio 2
Tuesday 22nd June 2021 - The Stand Up Sketch Show to return for Series 4
Friday 18th June 2021 - Lee Mack sitcom Semi-Detached axed, as comic makes Soccer Aid film
Friday 18th June 2021 - New book to shine a light on creation of 1970s sitcoms
Thursday 17th June 2021 - Mae Martin signs first-look deal with Objective
Wednesday 16th June 2021 - Roman Kemp pilots ITV2 prank show
Tuesday 15th June 2021 - Insider's Guide To Inside No. 9 book to be published
Tuesday 15th June 2021 - Doon Mackichan writing acting memoir
Tuesday 15th June 2021 - Alex MacKeith wins at Musical Comedy Awards
Saturday 12th June 2021 - Michael Legge to publish his first book
Friday 11th June 2021 - Comedian Ed Patrick to publish anaesthetist book
Friday 11th June 2021 - Panel show 'Sorry, I Didn't Know' to return to ITV
Thursday 10th June 2021 - Edinburgh Fringe economics scrutinised in new film
Thursday 10th June 2021 - Ruth Jones and Rob Brydon reuniting for new BBC comedy
Wednesday 9th June 2021 - Bill Bailey to star in Radio 4 comedy special Hennikay
Wednesday 9th June 2021 - The Windsors sitcom to transfer to the stage
Wednesday 9th June 2021 - Rob And Romesh Vs returns for Olympics as Rob Beckett pilots game show
Tuesday 8th June 2021 - Michelle De Swarte to star in comic horror series The Baby
Monday 7th June 2021 - Adrian Edmondson records autobiographical Radio 3 series
Monday 7th June 2021 - Max Boyce to publish new book
Monday 7th June 2021 - Frankie Boyle writes debut novel
Monday 7th June 2021 - Russell Kane pilots Evil Genius for television
Monday 7th June 2021 - Inside No. 9 wins BAFTA award
Sunday 6th June 2021 - Nina Gilligan wins Leicester Mercury Comedian Of The Year 2021
Sunday 6th June 2021 - Paddy McGuinness announces autobiography My Lifey
Friday 4th June 2021 - Stewart Lee to present Radio 4 documentary on unreliable narration
Thursday 3rd June 2021 - Never Mind The Buzzcocks series coming to Sky
Wednesday 2nd June 2021 - Channel Dave to launch five online shows
Wednesday 2nd June 2021 - Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie reunite for new film
Tuesday 1st June 2021
May 2021
- Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction 2021 shortlist revealed
Sunday 30th May 2021 - Comedy producer Charlie Hanson accused of sexual assaults
Saturday 29th May 2021 - Best Comedy Podcast nominees announced
Friday 28th May 2021 - Friday Night Dinner wins at Broadcast Awards 2021
Thursday 27th May 2021 - Bill Bailey hints at Black Books reunion
Thursday 27th May 2021 - Comedians quit Yesterday, Today & The Day Before in Palestine protest
Thursday 27th May 2021 - Katherine Ryan to return as host for All That Glitters Series 2
Thursday 27th May 2021 - The Skewer wins gold at Audio & Radio Industry Awards
Wednesday 26th May 2021 - Channel 4 launches sketch series with a host of comedians
Wednesday 26th May 2021 - Max & Ivan writing sport comedy for ITV2
Wednesday 26th May 2021 - Taskmaster treasure hunt book to be published in September
Wednesday 26th May 2021 - Alan Partridge live 2022 arena tour announced
Wednesday 26th May 2021 - BBC Scotland unveils female-led comedies
Wednesday 26th May 2021 - On The Buses movies to be celebrated in new documentary film
Tuesday 25th May 2021 - Meera Syal and Jennifer Saunders star in Audible sitcom 'Raj!'
Tuesday 25th May 2021 - Sophie Willan wins BAFTA comedy writing award
Tuesday 25th May 2021 - Sadia Azmat to publish Sex Bomb memoir
Monday 24th May 2021 - Sky backs comedies
Sunday 23rd May 2021 - Taskmaster Series 12 line-up
Thursday 20th May 2021 - Leicester Mercury Comedian Of The Year finalists 2021
Thursday 20th May 2021 - Graham Norton's novel to be turned into an ITV series
Thursday 20th May 2021 - Daisy May Cooper to star in BBC comedy drama Cash Carraway
Wednesday 19th May 2021 - Julia Louis-Dreyfus battles parrot of Death in dark comedy Tuesday
Tuesday 18th May 2021 - Miles Jupp to play Prime Minister in Party's Over on Radio 4
Tuesday 18th May 2021 - Don't Forget The Driver Series 2 cancelled because of Covid
Friday 14th May 2021 - Susannah Fielding joins The Cockfields
Friday 14th May 2021 - Simon Bird unveils debut stand-up special on All 4
Friday 14th May 2021 - Lucy Pearman creates BBC pilot Please Help Me
Friday 14th May 2021 - Good Omens Series 2 rumoured
Thursday 13th May 2021 - The League Of Gentlemen to reunite on stage once again?
Wednesday 12th 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