Armando Iannucci says comics should tackle contentious topics
24/05/2024 … Too many satirists take 'the path of least resistance' and avoid properly tackling contentious political topics, Armando Iannucci has said.
Development scheme announced at its comedy festival in Glasgow
23/05/2024 … The BBC is to order a new narrative comedy pilot to be produced in Scotland and featuring Scottish talent.
© zoetnet / Flickr 180 Edinburgh shows get £2,500 of help
23/05/2024 … The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society has announced the recipients of the 2024 Keep it Fringe fund.
'Supercharged bursary' to nurture new talent
23/05/2024 … The next cohort of talent joining the BBC Comedy Collective has been announced.
Full text of BBC comedy chief Jon Petrie's keynote industry speech
23/05/2024 … BBC director of comedy Jon Petrie has today called for the TV industry to help him ‘save our sitcoms’.
© BBC/Avalon Lee Mack: 'I’m very grateful the BBC have trusted in us to keep alive the studio sitcom'
23/05/2024 … Lee Mack’s Not Going Out will return for a new series next year, the BBC has announced.
© BBC Mike Bubbins comedy gets a second series
23/05/2024 … Mike Bubbins' comedy Mammoth – about a PE teacher from the 1970s waking up in the present day – is return for a second series.
© BBC/Hat Trick Brockmans now grandparents in Christmas special
23/05/2024 … Outnumbered is returning to the BBC for a one-off Christmas special – eight years after the last episode aired.
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