Old sitcom reboots 'could lead to full series'
25/08/2016 … One or more of the sitcoms being rebooted by the BBC could return for a full series, the corporation’s comedy chief Shane Allen says.
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The 2016 Edinburgh Comedy Award nominees are...
24/08/2016 … The nominees for this year’s lastminute.
Confirmed: Not Going Out to return
24/08/2016 … Lee Mack’s sitcom Not Going Out is to return for an eighth series, the BBC has confirmed today.
Channel 4 orders bisexual comedy
24/08/2016 … Channel 4 has commissioned a new sitcom based around bisexual dating.
David Brent movie takes £1.5million
24/08/2016 … THE David Brent movie Life On The Road took £1.
© ITV/Big Talk 'Black to the future'
ITV2 orders time-travelling sitcom
24/08/2016 … ITV2 has commissioned a new sitcom about a struggling four-piece South London jazz band who travel back in time to the 1920s.
C4 orders a comedy set amid The Troubles
Derry Girls penned by London Irish's Lisa McGee
24/08/2016 … The Northern Irish Troubles are to form the backdrop of a new Channel 4 comedy.
© UKTV Taskmaster gets a Belgian remake
24/08/2016 … Taskmaster is to be remade in Belgium and Sweden.