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BBC Comedy Festival 2024 sessions now available to book
The BBC Comedy Festival 2024 will be in Glasgow on Wednesday 22nd and Thursday 23rd May, with speakers set to include Armando Iannucci, Jennifer Saunders and Steve Pemberton & Reece Shearsmith. Free tickets to the sessions can be booked now.
British Comedy Guide, 8th April 2024Forgotten Friday Night Dinner script released as fans praise 'glorious' scene that was never filmed
Writer Robert Popper has also taken to X to share a forgotten scene from the show, which fans are loving.
Tom Earnshaw, Lad Bible, 6th February 2024Channel 4 drops I Hate You
Channel 4 has dropped its new sitcom I Hate You after just one series.
British Comedy Guide, 27th February 2023Robert Popper on I Hate You
'You can't really be a writer if you can't write female characters'.
Gabriel Tate, i Newspaper, 13th October 2022I Hate You review
Like watching two grown women possessed by the spirit of puerile teenage boys.
Rebecca Nicholson, The Guardian, 13th October 2022Robert Popper interview
Friday Night Dinner was famously based on the writer's own family. So who was the inspiration for the bickering best mates of his new show I Hate You?
Rich Pelley, The Guardian, 30th September 2022Friday Night Dinner to be re-made by Amazon as Dinner With The Parents
Amazon Freevee has ordered a 10 episode series of Dinner With The Parents, a remake of Channel 4 sitcom Friday Night Dinner.
British Comedy Guide, 14th July 2022Rosie Jones, Jordan Brookes and Kiell Smith-Bynoe land Channel 4 Blaps
Channel 4 has announced seven new Comedy Blaps, including shorts for Rosie Jones, Jordan Brookes, Kiell Smith-Bynoe and Harry Trevaldwyn.
British Comedy Guide, 13th April 2022Friday Night Dinner's Robert Popper creates I Hate You
Robert Popper, the creator of Friday Night Dinner, has written a new sitcom for Channel 4 called I Hate You.
British Comedy Guide, 25th August 2021Friday Night Dinner: the Best Episodes
As Robert Popper's utterly lovable Friday Night Dinner celebrates its 10th birthday, we celebrate the Channel 4 sitcom's very best episodes. Spoilers.
Jamie Andrew, Den Of Geek, 28th May 2021