© Rose d'Or John Cleese returns to the BBC
New sitcom with Alison Steadman
11/04/2017 … The BBC has confirmed that John Cleese is returning to the corporation with a new sitcom called Edith.
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Tue 11 April 2017
© Rose d'Or 
Liver Birds: The Musical
Seventies sitcom gets a new treatment
11/04/2017 … Seventies sitcom The Liver Birds is being turned into a stage musical.
© BBC/House of Tomorrow Cunk, Fleabag and McIntyre lead Bafta nods
11/04/2017 … Philomena Cunk is up for two Baftas.
Mon 10 April 2017
Panti Bliss sells her story
Drag queen's tale being developed for TV
10/04/2017 … The man behind Irish drag queen Panti Bliss has sold the rights to his story to a TV production company.
Revealed: What the BBC's comedy chief wants to make
Shane Allen gives his commissioning wish-list
10/04/2017 … BBC comedy chief Shane Allen has revealed his wish-list for new shows – with a family-friendly sitcom for BBC One a priority.
© Andy Hollingworth Comics raise cash for a vagina museum
10/04/2017 … Barely a day goes by without comedians holding a benefit gig for one good cause or another… but this has to be one of the more unusual.
Simon Amstell to direct his second film
Benjamin is about 'intimacy and despair'
10/04/2017 … Simon Amstell is to direct his second film, after making his debut with the iPlayer mockumentary Carnage.
© Jim Lee Ghenoa dances off with the Deadly title
Victory in Australia's Indigenous comedy competition
10/04/2017 … Dancer Ghenoa Gela won the Deadly Funny competition for Indigenous Australian comedians at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival at the weekend.