Amazon axes Tig Notaro's One Mississippi
Web giant 'moving away from niche comedy'
18/01/2018 … Tig Notaro’s acclaimed comedy show One Mississippi has been cancelled after two series.
Thu 18 January 2018
© BBC BBC orders Martin Clunes sitcom
Playing a driving instructor called Warren
18/01/2018 … The BBC has commissioned Martin Clunes’s sitcom comeback, Warren, following a successful pilot.
© David A Ellis / Creative Commons 3.0/CC BY-SA 3.0 Ken Dodd in hospital with chest infection
18/01/2018 … Sir Ken Dodd is in hospital with a severe chest infection.
Wed 17 January 2018
Russell Peters to play the UK
17/01/2018 … Russell Peters is to play three UK dates this spring as part of his Deported World Tour.
Ivo Graham and Emma Sidi in Climaxed
New series of post-coital comedy sketches
17/01/2018 … Ivo Graham and Emma Sidi star in the first of the new series of BBC Three sketch series Climaxed.
We liked our jobs, say Fringe workers
According to survey in response to union fears of exploitation
17/01/2018 … More than 80 per cent of people who worked at the Edinburgh Fringe were satisfied with their experience.
Comedy Central orders more Your Face Or Mine
Jimmy Carr and Katherine Ryan to return
17/01/2018 … Comedy Central has commissioned two more series of its game show Your Face or Mine.
Another series? Tick
Amazon renews Peter Serafinowicz's superhero comedy
17/01/2018 … Amazon Studios has greenlit a second season of the comedy superhero series The Tick, starring Peter Serafinowicz in the title role.