© BBC/Happy Tramp North 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 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 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.
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 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 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.
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.
21/05/2025 … Filming has begun on a new BBC comedy based on Rónán Hession’s novel Leonard and Hungry Paul.
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