Dave Johns film wins the Palme D'Or
Ken Loach movie scoops top prize at Cannes
22/05/2016 … Comedian Dave Johns’s film I Daniel Blake has won the Palme d’Or – the top award at the Cannes film festival Directed by Ken Loach, Johns plays the…
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Sun 22 May 2016
BBC 'thinks Scots are dumber than the English'
Comedy writer's bombshell claims
22/05/2016 … A comedy writer has claimed BBC executives told him to pitch a script to BBC Two rather than BBC Scotland – because Scottish viewers are stupider than their English…
Sat 21 May 2016
BBC Three just got more Witless
Second series for Kerry Howard and Zoe Boyle comedy
21/05/2016 … BBC Three has commissioned a second series of Witless, the sitcom starring Kerry Howard and Zoe Boyle as flatmates put into the witness protection programme.
Mr Ed's human star dies
21/05/2016 … Alan Young, who starred in the talking horse sitcom Mr Ed, has at the age of 96.
Fri 20 May 2016
BFI preserves comedy training videos
Titles from John Cleese's Video Arts
20/05/2016 … Corporate training videos featuring comedians are to be preserved by the British Film Institute.
Watch Stephen Fry in his new US sitcom
CBS release The Great Indoors trailer
20/05/2016 … The first trailer has been released for Stephen Fry's new US sitcom, The Great Indoors.
The dangers of inflation...
20/05/2016 … • 'There's an inherent anger in English audiences' Russell Howard.