© Fox 'It's grotesque' say campaigners
10/07/2013 … Underage girls are more likely to be the butt of sexually exploitative jokes in sitcoms than adult characters, a new report has found.
10/07/2013 … It’s a feature-writing staple: a journalist – probably with a secret desire to be a comedian – picks up a few tips from the pros, then performs a one-off…
© BBC/Fremantle Productions Sitcom gets a second series after just one episode
09/07/2013 … The BBC has ordered a second series of Count Arthur Strong – after just one episode has aired.
09/07/2013 … They are comedy’s equivalent of the jukebox musicals: plays about dead comics that can draw both on nostalgia and an established back-catalogue of writing.
© BBC 09/07/2013 … Getting On creators Jo Scanlan and Vicki Pepperdine are to pen a new sitcom for the BBC, set at a dog training class.
© BBC Axed: Wright Way, Getting On and Heading Out... plus questions over Miranda
09/07/2013 … The BBC has axed Ben Elton’s much-derided sitcom The Wright Way – while there is a question mark over the future of Miranda.
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