Sat 08 October 2016
© BBC Birmingham Comedy Festival Breaking Talent Award 2016
Gig review by Steve Bennett at the Glee, Birmingham
08/10/2016 … Once they had all performed, it was clear that that Birmingham Comedy Festival’s Breaking Talent Award was a two-horse race.
© Andy Hollingworth BBC commissions Bill Bailey sitcom
Pilot for comedy set in wildlife park
08/10/2016 … The BBC has commissioned a pilot of a new Bill Bailey sitcom based in a wildlife park.
Russell Brand to write a book on addiction
08/10/2016 … Russell Brand is to write a book about addiction.
Fri 07 October 2016
BBC One signs Ivan Brackenbury
Full series of Hospital People ordered
07/10/2016 … Inept hospital DJ Ivan Brackenbury has been given his own BBC One series, following a successful pilot.
© BBC/Robert Pereira-Hind The return of Still Game
07/10/2016 … The BBC continues to plunder its own back catalogue for the next mainstream sitcom hit.
Andrew Lawrence: The Outcast Comic
07/10/2016 … It’s a strange phenomenon of modern times that Andrew Lawrence can foster an edgy, rebellious image for adopting the exact-same reactionary tone of the government…