Fern Brady: Power and Chaos
Edinburgh Fringe review by Paul Fleckney
21/08/2019 … With her fourth Edinburgh hour, Fern Brady shows she can knock it out the park even when she’s suffering from laryngitis.
Wed 21 August 2019
New series from Derry Girls creator Lisa McGee
...but this one's a psychological thriller
21/08/2019 … Derry Girls creator Lisa McGee is to write a ‘contemporary psychological thriller’ for Channel Five.
© UKTV We're never going to be as good as the originals...
Robert Bathurst on playing Sergeant Wilson in the Dad's Army remake
21/08/2019 … On Sunday, Gold airs the first of its remake of three lost episodes of Dad’s Army.
There She Goes, again
BBC orders a second series of David Tennant and Jessica Hynes comedy-drama
21/08/2019 … There She Goes – in which David Tennant and Jessica Hynes – play parents bringing up a girl with severe learning disabilities is to return…
Sky to launch a channel dedicated to US comedies
Including Curb and John Oliver
21/08/2019 … Sky is to launch a new channel dedicated only to US comedy shows.
C4 orders a sitcom about a female Muslim punk band
Lady Parts picked up following a Comedy Blap
21/08/2019 … Channel 4 is making a comedy series about an all-female Muslim punk band.
Tue 20 August 2019
© Eva Rinaldi/CC BY-SA 2.0 Comedians to star in new Amazon entertainment show
Rebel Wilson to host the company's first Australian commission
20/08/2019 … Amazon is launching its first original programming in Australia: a TV comedy competition with a £55,000 first prize.
Home again
Channel 4 renews Rufus Jones's asylum-seeker comedy
20/08/2019 … Rufus Jones's asylum seeker sitcom Home is returning for a second series, Chortle can reveal.