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The BBC’s foremost comedy talent search, The New Comedy Awards, has reached its climax. Over 1,000 applied, more than 100 went head-to-head at showcases across the country and 30 battled it out in the regional heats. Now, six finalists take to the stage in their bid to win over the judges and be crowned the BBC New Comedian of 2023.
The BBC Comedy Festival is back for a third time and in May 2024 the host city will be Glasgow.
The BBC Comedy Festival is a chance for producers, both established and new, and those taking their first steps in the TV industry, to come and reflect, celebrate, and explore comedy in the UK. The Festival will kick start a year of development and production opportunities in the region supported by Screen Scotland.
The BBC has acquired all three seasons (28 x 30) of American teen comedy-drama Love, Victor from Disney Entertainment.
Season one stars Michael Cimino (Never Have I Ever), Rachel Hilson (Red, White & Royal Blue), Anthony Turpel (The Bold and The Beautiful), Bebe Wood (The New Normal), Mason Gooding (Scream VI), Ana Ortiz (Ugly Betty). Created by Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger, Love, Victor is inspired by and set in the same world as the 2018 film Love, Simon.
BBC and Roughcut TV, producers of Big Boys, People Just Do Nothing and Stath Lets Flats has announced the commission of a brand new comedy drama We Might Regret This – inspired by the lives and experiences of its creators Kyla Harris and Lee Getty.
BBC Comedy has announced a new project aimed at promoting scripted comedy partnerships in a targeted part of the UK, starting in Northern Ireland.
BBC Comedy have today launched the Editors Access Scheme to redress the lack of disability representation in Scripted Comedy editing. This interventional scheme will allow two candidates who are either deaf, disabled and/or Neurodivergent the opportunity to accelerate their careers in editing for scripted comedy.
BBC Studios has made three new appointments working across comedy productions for BBC Studios Audio. Ella Woods takes up the newly created role of Development Producer, whilst Kate Dehnert and Cody Dahler (pictured) join as staff writers.
The BBC's warm-up for the FA Cup replay between Liverpool and Wolves was interrupted by what sounded like pornographic noises in the studio.
Twitter went into overdrive wondering what had happened as the noises continued while Gary Lineker chatted in the studio to Alan Shearer who was standing out in the cold.
BBC Comedy is celebrating a successful festive season showcasing a range of popular and critically acclaimed content from the Ghosts special, Mrs Brown’s Boys and Inside No.9 to The Detectorists, Bad Education, Motherland, Two Doors Down and The Cleaner.
Kate Phillips, Director of Unscripted, has announced that Kalpna Patel-Knight will take on the newly created Head of Entertainment commissioning role following an internal restructure of BBC Television’s senior leadership team, which saw the recent closure of the Director of Entertainment role.
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