Up to the Task: Selling comedy to the world

Gameshow Taskmaster has been a standout hit for UKTV and is now entertaining audiences around the world. Creator Alex Horne and execs from UKTV and production company Avalon explain how the show was exported to 17 countries.

Inside No.9 review: Halloween special: 'Dead Line'

The way it was done, the sheer audacity of the whole thing left one almost open-mouthed in admiration and amazement.

Mark Benton on Anna and the Apocalypse

British musical zom-com that's also a Christmas movie - what's not to be excited about?

Dinner for One to be screened in Britain for first time

Odd story of the British comedy classic which has never been screened in Britain. Until now.

First look at Robert Webb & Diane Morgan in Frayed

With the show currently shooting in New South Wales, Australia, performers such as Sarah Kendall, Kerry Armstrong and Ben Mingay are also attached for roles.

Brendan "Mrs Brown" O'Carroll drags this pound-shop QI through to the last episode, with his teams captained by Danny and Fiona O'Carroll and Bill Oddie as this week's expert. The audience titter whenever the word "fact" is used where an expletive could stand. Surely that Question Time job beckons for O'Carroll.

Left- vs right-wing comedy: Why so Left?

There undoubtedly appears to be a prevalence on TV and in the media in general of left-leaning comedy, and a dearth of right-wing, conservative comedy or even Christian comedy. The question, then, is why this is?

Q&A with Ashley Jensen, aka 'Agatha Raisin'

In advance of the premiere, we had the great good fortune to sit down for a few minutes with Agatha Raisin herself -- Ashley Jensen -- to talk a bit about what viewers can expect from series 2.

Reece Shearsmith not actually dead!

Inside No. 9 co-star Reece Shearsmith has tweeted for the first time since the live episode of the award-winning series went out at the end of October when he "died".

Stewart Lee: A no-column Brexit is the only way forward

After a fruitless attempt to keep up with the negotiations, I decided that a bad column was worse than no column at all.