© BBC Black Ops gets a second series
'It feels like a no-brainer to get the band back together'
24/08/2023 … The BBC has ordered a second series of its hit comedy thriller Black Ops.
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© Steve Ullathorne Samira Banks wins So You Think You’re Funny?
36th year of new act competition
24/08/2023 … Samira Banks has been crowned the 36th winner of So You Think You’re Funny?, the UK’s longest-running comedy newcomer competition.
© Matt Holyoak New gameshow locks comedians in a box for 24 hours
24/08/2023 … Jimmy Carr is to host a new comedy reality gameshow in which pairs of comedians and celebrities will have to spend 24 hours locked in box – competing against…
Sachin Kumarendran: Deceit
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
24/08/2023 … What a show of two halves Sachin Kumarendran’s Fringe debut is.
Huge Davies: Whodunnit
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
24/08/2023 … A good whodunnit is tightly plotted and gratifies curiosity about the killer and their motive at the end.
Eden Sher: I Was On A Sitcom
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
24/08/2023 … It must be terribly strange having spent nine years – from the age of 17 – playing a distinctive character on a well-known American sitcom.
Claire Woolner: A Retrospection
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
24/08/2023 … ‘I know this is a challenging piece,’ says Claire Woolner after one of her typically intense and bizarre sketches.
'I wanted to die...'
George Zacharopoulos' Edinburgh Fringe binge, cringe and whinge…
24/08/2023 … George Zacharopoulos is at the Edinburgh Fringe performing his stand-up show Wonderland at the Pleasance Dome, with his last two shows at 8.