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After the success of more conventional sitcom Derry Girls, writer Lisa McGee has taken the energy and zip of the schooldays comedy and applied it to a group of adult women along with a mystery plot to keep you hooked. When schoolfriend Greta is dead a trio of old chums reunite for the wake in Ireland and things quickly spin off from there.
Comedies Here We Go, Last One Laughing And Big Boys were among the winners of this year's Broadcast Awards, announced at a ceremony last night.
BBC sitcom Here We Go won Best Comedy, C4's Big Boys won Best Comedy Drama and Prime Video’s Last One Laughing won Best Entertainment Programme.
There's a change of direction for comedian Mae Martin, whose new project is Wayward, a thriller for Netflix co-starring Toni Collette.
“I often talk around adolescence or I write characters who are processing their teens. It was such an intense time for me, and is for everyone, but I've always known I wanted to more directly dive into that time and all the visceral feelings of adolescence,” Martin says.
Jamie Demetriou already has his place in the comedy pantheon of greats with three series of the Bafta-winning Stath Lets Flats under his belt. He now gets his own sketch show special on Netflix which confirms what we could have already guessed – that there is even more Demetriou greatness out there.
A new talent initiative that will offer up to six successful applicants the opportunity for a year long programme of professional development has been launched by Netflix in Associaton with Sky. Writer Bisha K Ali has been working on this project and it is now open with a deadline for applications of June 18.
Mindy Kaling (The Office, The Mindy Project) takes on the teen experience in her new Netflix series Never Have I Ever. It's a classic coming of age tale: teenage girl wants to become cool and lose her virginity to the hottest guy at her school. We meet Devi (Maitreyi Ramakrishnan) on her mission to make a comeback from a terrible year, as she and her two quirky friends nicknamed the “UN”- Unfuckable Nerds - embark on the quest for boyfriends.
I don't actually review every single television programme I watch. sometimes I watch things that aren't comedies. And sometimes I watch things that aren't supposed to be comedies but turn out to be hilarious, watch-through-your-fingers instant classics. And that's the case with Fyre, the Netflix documentary about the disastrous Fyre Festival in the Bahamas in 2017.
This new Jack Whitehall travelogue in which he sets out on a belated gap year in the Far East with his irascible father Michael must be doing something right as I decided to watch the second episode straight after I’d watched the first. And, trust me, it wasn’t because I wanted to see Whitehall Junior scratching his balls. Which he does during an overnight trip on the Orient Express.
There is hope for stand-up hacks everywhere. In Jerry Before Seinfeld we get to see the earliest 1970s routines of superstar Jerry Seinfeld. And guess what. He is tackling the same subjects you might hear in a London comedy club any night in 2017. Being dragged around town by your parents as a kid, sport, socks that go missing, what is it with women and cotton balls, long-forgotten cereal brands. Yet in 1981, five years after making his debut Seinfeld was being introduced on TV by Johnny Carson. And the rest is sitcom history.
The first thing to say is that Sarah Silverman’s Netflix special is longer than her gig at the Hammersmith Apollo in 2008. For live comedy fans in England Silverman is arguably most famous for her major London show that lasted less than an hour and left many fans more bemused than amused.
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