Shane Allen, the BBC's comedy commissioning boss for the past nine years, is to leave the broadcaster and establish a new production company, Boffola Pictures, with Kate Daughton.
The BBC's Shane Allen is planning to set up the British Comedy Foundation, a national cross-industry body to engage the underrepresented, create opportunities and celebrate the heritage of British comedy.
An article from the Royal Television Society magazine which inquires whether today's disruptive politics will foster a new golden age of British TV satire.