16/11/2006 … LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN star Mark Gatiss has joined the cast of BBC One's high-profile drama series Jekyll, which is currently filming - and due to air next year.

More glamour and drugs...

BBC Three reorders comedies

16/11/2006 … BBC Three has commissioned new series of both Drop Dead Gorgeous and Johnny Vegas’s Ideal.

Comedy news

BBC1 plans local paper sitcom

16/11/2006 … Perrier-winner Laura Solon is to star in a new BBC One sitcom set in a local newspaper office.

15/11/2006 … SCOTTISH stand-up comic Janey Godley has landed a US publishing deal for her serious autobiography Handstands In The Dark.

ABC picks Thick

US network invests in political comedy

15/11/2006 … The BBC is to make a pilot episode of political comedy The Thick Of It for American network ABC.

Shuffle the jokers

BBC Three's new comedy showcase

15/11/2006 … Rob Rouse is to host a new BBC comedy showcase mixing stand-up performances with home-made clips of the type seen on YouTube.

The B'Stard's back

New Statesman to tour again

15/11/2006 … Rik Mayall is to go on the road again with a second Alan B’Stard play.

maxwell15

15/11/2006 … RUSSELL BRAND will appear at Maxwell's Full Mooners late-night show at the London Comedy Store this Thursday (16).