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The University of York has launched a fundraising campaign to secure the archive of comedy writers Ray Galton and Alan ...
Humphrey Ker and David Reed are to play Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson in [l]Sherlock Holmes and The Twelve Days of ...
Pro member, writer and director Brad Holcombe explains how he made his first short film, Rocks Under Tide. Brad's message - ...
Anna Thomas has landed her debut radio sitcom, with the winner of the 2021 BBC New Comedy Award writing and starring in Gulls ...
TV channel U&Gold has ordered Becoming Victoria Wood, a feature length documentary celebrating the life of Victoria Wood. The ...
Frank Skinner, Harry Hill, Amy Gledhill, Harriet Kemsley and This Paranormal Life were amongst the winners at the inaugural ...
Rosie Jones will tour new stand-up show I Can't Tell What She's Saying from September.
Channel 4 has commissioned Schooled, a six-part comedy series based on writer Delia-René Donaldson's real experiences in pastoral care at a London school. The network explains: "Schooled is a comedic ...
You Rang, M'Lord?, the hit upstairs-downstairs television comedy from David Croft and Jimmy Perry, is to be followed up with a sequel, more than 30 years after it ended. Original series director Roy ...
Pushers, a sitcom starring Rosie Jones as a drug dealer, launches on Channel 4 in June. The show, written by Jones and Peter Fellows, started life as a Comedy Blaps pilot in 2022 titled Disability ...
We're excited to have a new themed-quiz from Kate Emmett. This one is based around European languages appearing in British comedy. 1. Which sitcom character peppered his speech with incorrectly used ...
A new comedy night is launching in Newcastle Upon Tyne in July. Digital Laughs will take place in Digital, the nightclub on Times Square. The club promises "top names from the comedy circuit" to ...