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© Foto Ad Meskens / Creative Commons Organisers invite rival bids over cost fears
20/11/2025 … The Edinburgh TV festival might be moving out of the Scottish capital as accommodation prices spiral in August.
Stand-up and sketch show airing next year
20/11/2025 … Urzila Carlson is to star in her own series mixing stand-up and sketches.
Following in some illustrious footsteps
19/11/2025 … Eli Hart has been crowned winner of this year’s BBC New Comedy Awards.
Festive charity singalong announced
19/11/2025 … Comedians including Nish Kumar, James Acaster and Lolly Adefope are to take part in their version of a carol concert this Christmas.
His fourth stand-up special for the streamer
19/11/2025 … Netflix has today announced that Ricky Gervais’s Mortality will have its global release on Tuesday December 30.
© BBC/Big Talk Studios Dawn French and Mark Heap sitcom coming to BBC One next year
19/11/2025 … The first pictures have been released for the new Dawn French and Mark Heap comedy Can You Keep a Secret? The six-part series apparently inspired by the…
Comic's hoping to set a Guinness World Record for stage nudity
19/11/2025 … Garry Starr is hoping to set a Guinness World Record for ‘longest cumulative time of full-frontal nudity in a West End stage show’.
© CPL/Sky Details of series 8 of Rob & Romesh Vs revealed
19/11/2025 … Rob Beckett and Romesh Ranganathan head to Mumbai, New York, Sumatra and the Swiss Alps in the next series of Rob & Romesh Vs.
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