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© C4 Bridget Christie on her new Channel 4 comedy The Change
13/06/2023 … How long does it take to develop a TV show? Bridget Christie says that The Change, her new Channel 4 comedy about a menopausal woman, took so long to get to…
© BBC 06/06/2023 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
© BBC/Lingo Catherine Tate's sympathy for the Royals as she launches her new comedy Queen Of Oz
06/06/2023 … In her new sitcom, Queen Of Oz, Catherine Tate plays a member of the Royal Family who’s become such an embarrassment that she’s despatched to Australia,…
© UKTV / Matt Frost Tony Robinson on revisiting the series for a 40th anniversary documentary
06/06/2023 … In Original Blackadder: The Lost Pilot Sir Tony Robinson discovers the truth behind the Blackadder origin story – and the test episode in which he did…
© Quay Street Productions/ITVX Youssef Kerkour and Katherine Parkinson on Significant Other
31/05/2023 … In the new ITVX comedy Significant Other, Youssef Kerkour plays Sam, who is waiting to die after swallowing a cabinet full of pills when he’s interrupted by…
© Patrick Olner Guz Khan on why he went back to the drawing board... as comedy returns for series 4
30/05/2023 … Guz Khan says the next series of Man Like Mobeen was inspired by his cousin being sent to jail.
30/05/2023 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
© Patrick Olner Borat and Alan Partridge scribe at the BBC Comedy Festival
27/05/2023 … Acclaimed writer Peter Baynham lifted the lid on his illustrious career in a session at the BBC Comedy Festival in Cardiff yesterday.
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