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Jill Scott named new A League Of Their Own captain
Footballer Jill Scott will be the new team captain on sports-based panel show A League Of Their Own.
British Comedy Guide, 4th July 2023Edinburgh TV Festival Awards 2023 nominees
Big Boys, Derry Girls, Don't Hug Me I'm Scared, Everyone Else Burns, Extraordinary, Trying, Late Night Lycett, Taskmaster and The Graham Norton Show are amongst the nominees in the Edinburgh TV Awards 2023 shortlists.
British Comedy Guide, 27th June 2023Romesh Ranganthan's Avoidance gets second series
Romesh Ranganathan's parenting sitcom has been awarded a second series on BBC One.
British Comedy Guide, 24th May 2023Lenny Henry lands two Channel 4 shows
Lenny Henry is making two new television shows for Channel 4. In Legends Of Comedy, he interviews Paul Whitehouse, Alexei Sayle, Sally Phillips and Romesh Ranganathan. He is also writing a dark comedy drama pilot for the channel called Kriss Kross.
British Comedy Guide, 16th May 2023The Skewer wins Gold in Radio Academy awards
The Skewer has won two prizes at the ARIAS 2023, the Radio Academy's awards.
British Comedy Guide, 2nd May 2023Romesh Ranganathan lands BBC chat show
The BBC has ordered a new chat show from Romesh Ranganthan, even as the fate of his long-running series The Ranganation remains in the balance. Once again featuring his mother Shanthi, Ranganathan told fellow comic James Gill that the chat show "is coming", following a successful pilot in December.
British Comedy Guide, 7th April 2023Sky recommissions Brassic and Rob & Romesh Vs for 6th series
Sky has commissioned Brassic for a sixth series, making it one of the broadcaster's longest-running scripted comedies. It has also ordered a sixth run of Rob & Romesh Vs, with an upcoming episode featuring the pair visiting South Korea to experience K-Pop.
British Comedy Guide, 6th April 2023Taskmaster hall of fame: ranking the most legendary contestants!
To mark the launch of Series 15 on Channel 4, we celebrate Taskmaster's 25 most memorable and funny contestants so far.
Louisa Mellor, Elizabeth Donoghue and Laura Vickers-Green, Den Of Geek, 30th March 2023Alan Partridge, Sue Perkins and Frank Skinner amongst ARIAS nominees
The nominees in the comedy category in the The Radio Academy Awards include Frank Skinner, Alan Partridge's podcast, Nature Table hosted by Sue Perkins, Robin Ince's Reality Tunnel and The Skewer.
British Comedy Guide, 30th March 2023BAFTA TV Awards 2023 nominations
Am I Being Unreasonable?, Big Boys, Derry Girls and Ghosts are amongst the nominees for the BAFTA Television Awards 2023.
British Comedy Guide, 22nd March 2023