Micky Flanagan announces new stand-up show
17/02/2023 … Micky Flanagan has announced a new stand-up show – but with just eight tour dates so far.
Fri 17 February 2023
Still Open All Hours... closes
BBC pulls down the shutters on Arkwright’s corner store
17/02/2023 … Still Open All Hours is to close after six series, the BBC has confirmed.
© ITV Joel Dommett to host BBC One's Survivor
'Thank you for trusting me with this'
17/02/2023 … Joel Dommett has been confirmed as the next host of Survivor.
Joe Lycett and Mo Gilligan to receive National Comedy Awards
As best stand-up nominees also announced
17/02/2023 … Channel 4 comics Joe Lycett and Mo Gilligan are both to receive special accolades at the broadcaster’s National Comedy Awards tonight.
Thu 16 February 2023
© UK Parliament/CC BY-SA 3.0 Jess Phillips attends Spitting Image first night
...despite THAT 'misogynist' sketch
16/02/2023 … Labour MP Jess Phillips clearly bears no grudge against Spitting Image for depicting her in a sketch branded misogynist.
When does The Big Door Prize start?
Chris O'Dowd's new comedy for Apple TV+
16/02/2023 … Chris O’Dowd’s new Apple TV+ comedy The Big Door Prize will start on Mach 29, the streaming service has announced.
ITVX buys Kitty Flanagan’s Fisk
Australian legal comedy lands in the UK
16/02/2023 … Kitty Flanagan’s Australian sitcom Fisk is coming to the UK The series, in which the stand-up plays the titular lawyer forced to take a job at a ‘shabby…
Komedia New Comedy Award Final 2023
Review of the Brighton venue's talent hunt
16/02/2023 … There are so many new comedy competitions now that it can be easy to take them for granted.