Very Good Omens
Michael Sheen and David Tennant show named comedy of the year
27/01/2020 … Good Omens has been named comedy of the year for 2019.
Mon 27 January 2020
Mean Girls to come to London
...as a new movie based on the musical is also announced
27/01/2020 … The stage musical version of Mean Girls is being turned back into a movie – as well as heading to London’s West End.
BBC says Gavin & Stacey is its biggest show 'since records began'
(if you take a particular definition of that term)
27/01/2020 … The BBC says the Gavin & Stacey Christmas special has attracted the biggest audience for any of its TV programmes outside of sporting and national…
Irresistible trailer
Jon Stewart's political comedy starring Steve Carell
27/01/2020 … Here's the first trailer for Irresistible, a new film written and directed by Jon Stewart.
Good Life stage revivial confirmed
27/01/2020 … The stage version of The Good Life, starring the IT Crowd’s Katherine Parkinson as Barbara, has been confirmed.
Complaints over battery acid joke finally discharged
Ofcom won't take any action against Jo Brand
27/01/2020 … Broadcasting regulator Ofcom as drawn a line under the controversy over Jo Brand’s battery acid joke, finally ruling that it will take no further action.
© BBC Each time we finish a series, we look back and go, 'Where did that come from?'
Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith on the return of Inside No 9
27/01/2020 … The world of TV comedy is full of anecdotes of meddling executives handing meaningless, confusing notes to creative writers to justify their jobs.
Johnny Carroll dies at 78
The 'Brummie Stud' who fell from fame and fortune
27/01/2020 … Brummie comedian Johnny Carroll, a star of The Comedians who later fell on hard times, has died at the age of 78.