Aberdeen Comedy Festival hailed a success
16,000 tickets sold, boosting local business
07/10/2025 … The Aberdeen Comedy Festival has been hailed a success after 16,000 tickets were issued to 40 gigs across the Granite City.
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Tue 07 October 2025
LOL the midwife!
BBC orders a maternity unit sitcom created by Jessica Knappett
07/10/2025 … The BBC has commissioned a new sitcom from Jessica Knappett, set in the maternity unit of a small rural hospital in West Yorkshire.
Ryan S Lewis wins Birmingham's Breaking Talent Award
Triumph at city's comedy festival
07/10/2025 … Sandwell comic Ryan S Lewis has won the Breaking Talent Award at this year’s Birmingham Comedy Festival.
BBC orders a fourth series of Here We Go
And the comedy gets a New Year special
07/10/2025 … The BBC has ordered a fourth series of Tom Basden’s Here We Go – plus a New Year’s Eve special to air this year.
New sitcom from Gavin & Stacey's Ruth Jones
Co-created with her pal Steve Speirs
07/10/2025 … Gavin and Stacey co-creator Ruth Jones will write and star in new BBC comedy about middle-aged relationships.
Miles Jupp to front a new satirical podcast
His first hosting gig since The News Quiz
07/10/2025 … Miles Jupp is to host a new satirical podcast – marking his first return to hosting comedy since leaving BBC’s News Quiz in 2019.
© ITV Is Seann Walsh returning to I'm A Celebrity?
Comic named as part of a cast of returning 'all-stars'
07/10/2025 … Seann Walsh is returning to the I’m A Celebrity… jungle, it has been reported.
Mon 06 October 2025
Rosie Jones assaulted by 'homophobic, ableist' thugs
She and fellow comic Lee Peart targeted on train home from a gig
06/10/2025 … Comedians Rosie Jones and Lee Peart were attacked by 'ableist and homophobic' morons on their train home from a gig last night.