Man Vs Bee trailer
26/05/2022 … Netflix has released the first trailer for Rowan Atkinson's new comedy Man vs Bee.
2022 Archives
Thu 26 May 2022
© BBC BBC to axe Radio 4 Extra
Home of archive comedy will no longer be a linear channel
26/05/2022 … The BBC is to close Radio 4 Extra, its home of archive audio comedy, ‘after the next few years’.
© Channel 4 The Big Breakfast to return
Mo Gilligan and AJ Odudu to host four more shows for C4
26/05/2022 … Channel 4 has ordered a full series of The Big Breakfast with Mo Gilligan and AJ Odudu following a one-off revival last year.
© C4 Derry Girls: How joyful to get to see teenage girls challenging taboos just by being themselves
Analysis by Belfast-based academic Alison Garden
26/05/2022 … It’s a summer evening in Derry in 1997, the night before four teenage girls and a wee English fella get their GCSE results.
E4 says goodbye to Brooklyn Nine-Nine
One-off tribute as sitcom wraps after nine years
26/05/2022 … E4 is to broadcast a one-off special to bid farewell to Brooklyn Nine-Nine just before the final episode airs.
Jayde Adams plunges into neighbourhood disputes
...for a new Radio 4 comedy show and podcast
26/05/2022 … Jayde Adams is making a new Radio 4 comedy show and podcast delving into community WhatsApp groups and internet messageboards.
© Netflix Ricky Gervais 'has become a role model for the alt-right'
...so says his former support act Robin Ince
26/05/2022 … Robin Ince has warned Ricky Gervais that he is becoming a ‘pin-up for the alt-right’ as his comedy dehumanises trans people.
'No way to prevent this'
How The Onion responded to latest US mass shooting
26/05/2022 … American satirical website The Onion has responded to the latest mass shooting America by plastering its homepage with repeated versions of the same story.