© BBC Black Ops gets a second series
'It feels like a no-brainer to get the band back together'
24/08/2023 … The BBC has ordered a second series of its hit comedy thriller Black Ops.
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© Steve Ullathorne Samira Banks wins So You Think You’re Funny?
36th year of new act competition
24/08/2023 … Samira Banks has been crowned the 36th winner of So You Think You’re Funny?, the UK’s longest-running comedy newcomer competition.
© Matt Holyoak New gameshow locks comedians in a box for 24 hours
24/08/2023 … Jimmy Carr is to host a new comedy reality gameshow in which pairs of comedians and celebrities will have to spend 24 hours locked in box – competing against…
© C4 Prayers are answered! Second series for Everyone Else Burns
Simon Bird's doomsday cult comedy to return
24/08/2023 … Channel 4 has ordered a second series of its doomsday cult comedy Everyone Else Burns.
© Channel 4 Channel 4 orders Rosie Jones sitcom Disability Benefits
Six-part series follows a Comedy Blap last year
24/08/2023 … Rosie Jones is to star in a new six-part Channel 4 comedy called Disability Benefits.
© Channel 4 Late Night Lycett to return
Channel 4 orders a second series for 2024
24/08/2023 … Channel 4 has ordered a second series of Joe Lycett’s Late Night Lycett to air next year.
© Sky Second series for Funny Woman
Gemma Arterton to return to Sky comedy
24/08/2023 … Sky has ordered a second series of the comedy-drama Funny Woman, about a comic trying to make it in the male-dominated scene of the 1960s.
© ABC Filming stars on new Australian comedy White Fever
24/08/2023 … Filming is under way in Melbourne on White Fever, a new Australian comedy from actress and writer Ra Chapman.