Another venue bans Roy Chubby Brown
Comic's fans slate Exmouth theatre's decision
14/05/2026 … Roy Chubby Brown’s management has hit out after another venue cancelled the offensive comedian.
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© BBC BBC comedy boss: We back the genre for the laughs, not the money
Jon Petrie announces raft of new and returning shows
13/05/2026 … The BBC has announced ten new and returning shows at its comedy festival in Liverpool.
New sitcom for Derry Girls star Jamie-Lee O’Donnell
Hopley Hall is set in a crumbling country house
13/05/2026 … Derry Girls star Jamie-Lee O’Donnell is to head a new BBC comedy set in a historic and slightly shabby listed house in the Northern Ireland countryside.
© BBC/Merman The BBC heads back to Amandaland
13/05/2026 … Amandaland will be back for a third series, it was announced at the BBC comedy festival in Liverpool today.
© BBC/Roughcut Lucia Keskin finds more things she should have done
BBC orders a third series of her sitcom
13/05/2026 … The BBC has ordered a third series of Lucia Keskin’s Things You Should Have Done The creator will return as ‘stay at home daughter’ trying to…
© Boffola Pictures Third series for Am I Being Unreasonable?
Daisy May Cooper and Selin Hizli's comedy thriller will return
13/05/2026 … Comedy thriller Am I Being Unreasonable?, written by and starring Daisy May Cooper and Selin Hizli, will return to the BBC for a third and final series, it was announced…
© BBC Studios Comedy Black Ops lands a third series
Gbemisola Ikumelo and Hammed Animashaun are back working for MI5
13/05/2026 … Black Ops will return for a third series, it was announced at the BBC comedy festival in Liverpool today.
Amy Gledhill lands her own BBC sitcom
Six-part romcom co-written with Starstruck's Nic Sampson
13/05/2026 … Amy Gledhill is to write and star in a new six-part comedy series for the BBC.