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Sindhu Vee pilots sitcom Winning for Channel 4
Wednesday 5th May 2021
Sindhu Vee is piloting a domestic sitcom for Channel 4. The loosely autobiographical Winning is focused on a mixed-race family with a domineering mother character.
CBBC announces period family comedy Dodger
Wednesday 5th May 2021
CBBC has confirmed the production of a new family comedy series, Dodger. Based on Charles Dickens's iconic characters, its stars include Christopher Eccleston as Fagin.
Richard Ayoade to host Question Team on Dave
Wednesday 5th May 2021
Richard Ayoade is to host Question Team, a panel show series for Dave in which the panellists set the questions.
Fern Brady, Darren Harriott and Ivo Graham front British As Folk
Wednesday 5th May 2021
Fern Brady, Darren Harriott and Ivo Graham will host British As Folk, a factual entertainment travel series coming to channel Dave.
Tom Allen to host Dave show The Island
Wednesday 5th May 2021
Tom Allen will front channel Dave's new format The Island, which has been devised by comedians James Acaster, Ed Gamble, Lloyd Langford and John Robins.
David Mitchell hosts challenge show Outsiders
Wednesday 5th May 2021
David Mitchell will host Outsiders, a comedy entertainment series for channel Dave in which a group of comedians are challenged with outdoor tasks.
Nina Sosanya leads cast in Channel 4 prison comedy Screw
Tuesday 4th May 2021
Nina Sosanya will star in Screw, Channel 4's new comedy drama set in a prison. Jamie-Lee O'Donnell from Derry Girls and King Gary's Laura Checkley also feature in the cast list.
Paul Sinha's TV Showdown to return for Series 2
Friday 30th April 2021
Paul Sinha's TV Showdown is returning for a second series. Rob Beckett and Fay Ripley are also attached to reprise their roles as team captains on the television trivia quiz.
Widowhood comedy Wife After Death in development
Thursday 29th April 2021
Peep Show producers Objective Fiction are developing Wife After Death, a comedy about a young widow based on author Lucie Brownlee's memoir Life After You.
Rhod Gilbert's Growing Pains gets second series
Thursday 29th April 2021
Comedy Central has commissioned a second series of teenage embarrassment show Rhod Gilbert's Growing Pains.