Chris O’Dowd signs up to Apple+ comedy
Taking lead role in The Big Door Prize
08/12/2021 … Chris O’Dowd is to star in The Big Door Prize, a new Apple comedy about a machine that can reveal your true life potential.
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Wed 08 December 2021
Tue 07 December 2021
© Harry Carr Simon Amstell announces more live dates
07/12/2021 … Simon Amstell has added 15 dates to his Spirit Hole stand-up tour next year.
New book deal for Ian Moore
Two more novels in comedian's Follet Valley Mysteries series
07/12/2021 … Ian Moore is to write two more mystery novels.
Omicron halts National Comedy Awards
Channel 4 postpones next week's ceremony amid growing Covid fears
07/12/2021 … Channel 4 have called off the National Comedy Awards due to be held next week – because of the Omicron variant of Covid.
Dave to pilot four new comedy shows
All chosen via a competition seeking diverse new writers
07/12/2021 … Four comedy pilots are to be shot for the Dave channel, thanks to a new writing competition.
© Adam Johnson/Slapstick Barry Cryer to launch a podcast
Comedy legend to interview fellow stars
07/12/2021 … Barry Cryer is launching his own podcast, at the age of 86.
Comics up for 2022 Writers' Guild awards
TV, radio and online nominees announced
07/12/2021 … Mae Martin, Sarah Kendall and Aisling Bea are all up for the Writers’ Guild award for best sitcom this year.
Mon 06 December 2021
AP Bio cancelled
Fourth series of US comedy will be the last
06/12/2021 … AP Bio – the US comedy series about a Harvard philosophy professor who returns to his home town to teach – has been cancelled.