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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.
Submissions have been invited from today by the BBC for short form comedies. Here is what they say:
Short-form is a place for both new and established talent - writers, performers, producers, directors and companies - to experiment, develop and showcase exciting new worlds and memorable comedy characters. This is where you can take your first steps into development with BBC Comedy, and work with us on characters and ideas that can potentially grow into longform.
BBC Studios has announced two new comedy Contract Writers, Cameron Loxdale and Jade Gebbie to work across comedy productions for BBC Studios Audio, including the flagship Radio 4 topical shows The Now Show, The News Quiz and Dead Ringers.
This article by BBC Director-General Tim Davie first appeared in the Daily Telegraph but has now been released by the BBC Press Office.
Comedy and Drama writer Tiwa Lade is this year’s recipient of the Felix Dexter Bursary scheme.
The six-month bursary, run by BBC’s Comedy Association is awarded to aspiring comedy writers, with the aim of making a positive intervention to address an under-representation of black, Asian and ethnic minority professionals in comedy production in broadcasting.
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