comedy
Channel 4 has announced the commission of Big Age, a new comedy pilot written by acclaimed writer Bolu Babalola (Love in Colour) and produced by Tiger Aspect (Man Like Mobeen, Hitmen). The vivacious show will air as part of Channel 4’s Black to Front day on Friday 10 September 2021
Jon Petrie has been appointed as the BBC's new Director of Comedy. Petrie will lead the UK’s largest generator of original scripted comedy responsible for multi-awarding winning comedies and audience hits including The Young Offenders, Inside No. 9, This Country, Ghosts, Man Like Mobeen, Motherland and In My Skin.
Comedy Central UK has greenlit three new shows. They are female-fronted discussion show Yesterday, Today & The Day Before, comedic panel show The Complaints Department and quiz format Fact Off (w/t). All three series will air on Comedy Central UK this year.
The Cambridge Comedy Festival, now in its 14th year, is expanding.
Organiser Andy White claims it will be the UK’s first ever all-comedy 3 day festival with camping - there are over 150 acts appearing. It will also be Covid friendly.
The event will run from July 9 - 11 and comedy fans can camp on the site and enjoy a line-up over four stages that includes Dara O Briain, Sean Lock, Russell Kane, Al Murray, Kiri Pritchard-McLean, Reg Hunter, Catherine Bohart, Milton Jones And Many More.
BBC Three has commissioned ‘Wrecked’, a new comedy horror series from Euston Films (The Sister, Dublin Murders) and up-and-coming writer Ryan J. Brown.
‘Wrecked’ mixes comedy with slasher and is set aboard a mega cruise ship. This luxury liner has everything - glamorous entertainers making guest dreams come true. Vague, unsettling sense of menace.. Young, exhausted workers turning up dead or missing...
BBC Studios has announced two new Staff Writers, Tasha Dhanraj and Rajiv Karia, to work across comedy productions for BBC Studios Audio, including the flagship Radio 4 topical shows The Now Show, The News Quiz, Dead Ringers and Newsjack.
Comedy Central UK has announced a deal which sees podcast platform Acast become its distribution and monetisation partner for a new podcast series based on its smash hit, online short-form series, Dragony Aunts. Dragony Aunts The Podcast will be hosted by original drag queen stars of the digital series, Crystal Rasmussen and Candy Warhol.
2Northdown has launched its third New Act Competition, kicking off in January 2021. Leo Reich won last year. Other 2020 finalists included runner up Erika Ehler, Bella Hull, William Stone and Pope Lonergan. The competition is open to all types of comedy, with sketch, character and alternative acts encouraged to apply.
CBBC is adapting a cult comedy hit to be made into a children's show.
CBBC's Monster Court is based on the improvised mock legal stage spoof, This Is Your Trial, in which comics would defend their various positions.
Brexit supporters and others have criticised Have I Got News For You after the BBC programme posted a tweet about its future.
Noting that September 28 was the thirtieth anniversary of the first show's airing, the HIGNFY account tweeted: "So that’s 30 years then, but if Paul Dacre and Charles Moore take those jobs we’re unlikely to see another five, and nor is the BBC."
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