© 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.
Wed 21 May 2025
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© 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.
© BBC BBC comedy chief says funny CAN come cheap
Jon Petrie's keynote speech to the BBC Comedy Festival in full
21/05/2025 … Spending more money on comedy shows doesn’t make them funnier, the BBC’s comedy chief has said.
© Mayhay Studios Funboys will return to create more chaos
BBC orders a second series of Northern Irish comedy
21/05/2025 … The BBC has ordered a second series of its Northern Irish comedy Funboys, it has been announced at the broadcaster’s comedy festival in Dublin.
BBC renews The Golden Cobra
12 more episodes of Welsh animated comedy
21/05/2025 … The BBC has ordered a second series of its Welsh animated comedy The Golden Cobra.
BBC adapts the comic novel Leonard and Hungry Paul
21/05/2025 … Filming has begun on a new BBC comedy based on Rónán Hession’s novel Leonard and Hungry Paul.
© Netflix Ricky Gervais makes the Hollywood Walk Of Fame
21/05/2025 … Ricky Gervais will be given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame next week.