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ITV renews its police-trainee comedy
22/05/2025 … ITV has confirmed that its police training comedy Piglets is returning for a second series.
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Thu 22 May 2025
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FringeRat forages for festival comedy shows
New website serves up random videos from Fringe performers
22/05/2025 … A website has launched to serve up random comedy videos to help people discover their new favourite shows at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Wed 21 May 2025
Guz Khan gets Stuffed
Comic makes a one-off BBC Christmas comedy
21/05/2025 … Guz Khan is to star alongside Morgana Robinson and Sue Johnston in a one-off family comedy this Christmas.
© Patrick Olner New BBC sitcom for Rob Brydon
Comic to play a neurotic student landlord in Bill's Included
21/05/2025 … Rob Brydon is to star in a new BBC One sitcom as a middle-aged divorcee who shares his house with students.
Mackenzie Crook creates a new BBC comedy
Featruing Sir Michael Palin, Sophie Willan and Jon Pointing
21/05/2025 … Sir Michael Palin, Sophie Willan and Jon Pointing are to star in a new comedy Mackenzie Crook has created for the BBC.
© BBC/Happy Tramp North BBC orders a second series of Only Child
Gregor Fisher and Greg McHugh to return
21/05/2025 … The BBC has ordered a second series of Only Child, its cross-generational sitcom starring Gregor Fisher and Greg McHugh as father and son.
© Vico Films The Young Offenders gets a fifth series
Conor and Jock out of jail and reunited in Cork
21/05/2025 … The BBC has recommissioned The Young Offenders for a fifth series.
© BBC Lenny Rush to play The Reluctant Vampire
As Alan Partridge writers adapt Eric Morecambe's novel for the BBC
21/05/2025 … Lenny Rush is to play The Reluctant Vampire in a new supernatural comedy based on Eric Morecambe’s books.