Guz Khan gets Stuffed
Comic makes a one-off BBC Christmas comedy
21/05/2025 … Guz Khan is to star alongside Morgana Robinson and Sue Johnston in a one-off family comedy this Christmas.
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Wed 21 May 2025
© Patrick Olner New BBC sitcom for Rob Brydon
Comic to play a neurotic student landlord in Bill's Included
21/05/2025 … Rob Brydon is to star in a new BBC One sitcom as a middle-aged divorcee who shares his house with students.
Mackenzie Crook creates a new BBC comedy
Featruing Sir Michael Palin, Sophie Willan and Jon Pointing
21/05/2025 … Sir Michael Palin, Sophie Willan and Jon Pointing are to star in a new comedy Mackenzie Crook has created for the BBC.
© BBC/Happy Tramp North BBC orders a second series of Only Child
Gregor Fisher and Greg McHugh to return
21/05/2025 … The BBC has ordered a second series of Only Child, its cross-generational sitcom starring Gregor Fisher and Greg McHugh as father and son.
© Vico Films The Young Offenders gets a fifth series
Conor and Jock out of jail and reunited in Cork
21/05/2025 … The BBC has recommissioned The Young Offenders for a fifth series.
© BBC Lenny Rush to play The Reluctant Vampire
As Alan Partridge writers adapt Eric Morecambe's novel for the BBC
21/05/2025 … Lenny Rush is to play The Reluctant Vampire in a new supernatural comedy based on Eric Morecambe’s books.
Diane Morgan to play a robot in AI sitcom
BBC One comedy co-written with Sarah Kendall
21/05/2025 … Diane Morgan is to play a humanoid robot created to keep elderly people company in a new BBC One sitcom.
Funny CAN come cheap
Concern for budgets as BBC comedy chief says producers don't have to spend big
21/05/2025 … Spending more money on comedy shows doesn’t make them funnier, the BBC’s comedy chief has said.