Filming starts on Graham Linehan's next show 'within weeks'
08/09/2025 … Work is set to start on Graham Linehan’s next comedy project within weeks, despite his legal woes.
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Mon 08 September 2025
© Ian West/PA News/Alamy More details emerge of James Corden and Ruth Jones's new project
Pair will play siblings in show called The Choir
08/09/2025 … James Corden and Ruth Jones’s new Apple TV show is to be called The Choir.
© UKTV/Gareth Gatrell Smeg! Red Dwarf special is canned
Writer Doug Naylor reveals he was told to stop work in the script
08/09/2025 … Plans for another 90-minute Red Dwarf special have been quietly dropped, writer Doug Naylor has revealed.
© Patrick Olner BBC sets New Comedy Award final 2025
How to get free tickets for the Bradford climax
08/09/2025 … The BBC has announced that the final of its 2025 New Comedy Awards will be taking place at Bradford’s Alhambra Theatre on October 17.
Radio 4 comedy bonanza
Huge raft of new shows, pilots, stand-up specials and recommissions announced
08/09/2025 … Radio 4 has announced a new slate of comedy commissions from Omid Djalili, Kiri Pritchard-McLean, Alistair Green, Slim, Ayoade Bamgboye and Pierre Novellie and more.
Sun 07 September 2025
Ideal's back... and SO MANY comedy tours
The best of the week's live comedy
07/09/2025 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the 7,006 events Chortle currently has listed.
© Channel 4/Avalon Taskmaster returns for its 20th series
The best of the week's comedy on TV, radio and on demand
07/09/2025 … Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week…: Monday September 8 PETER SELLERS AT SEA: On what would have been the 100th birthday of…
© Iain Masterton / Alamy Stock Photo Graham Linehan has his X ban lifted
Crowdfunder raises £150,000 for his lawyers' fees
07/09/2025 … Graham Linehan has returned to X after the Free Speech Union campaigned to have his bail conditions loosened.