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Paul Zerdin talks about how he made the jump from magician to ventriloquist (while still keeping some of the magic!), his ...
Pushers, a sitcom starring Rosie Jones as a drug dealer, launches on Channel 4 in June. The show, written by Jones and Peter Fellows, started life as a Comedy Blaps pilot in 2022 titled Disability ...
TV channel U&Gold has ordered Becoming Victoria Wood, a feature length documentary celebrating the life of Victoria Wood. The ...
Frank Skinner, Harry Hill, Amy Gledhill, Harriet Kemsley and This Paranormal Life were amongst the winners at the inaugural ...
Rosie Jones will tour new stand-up show I Can't Tell What She's Saying from September.
West End legend Elaine Paige is making a sitcom with comedian Jason Cook. The musical star is set to lead the television comedy focused on retirement, which has the working title Take A Bow and is ...
The semi-improvised sitcom about the Brockman family, which, like Drop The Dead Donkey, is written by Guy Jenkin and Andy Hamilton, returned after eight years for a special on BBC One at Christmas, ...
One of the most common weaknesses in sitcom scripts from new writers is a lack of authenticity. Their characters and situations float in a vague, generic space, never quite feeling real. Great sitcoms ...
What's the first thing you remember about your favourite sitcoms? The characters. Captain Mainwaring's pomposity. Basil Fawlty's simmering rage. Alan Partridge's desperate need for validation. Great ...
Scott Bennett is developing his own sitcom for the BBC, British Comedy Guide can exclusively reveal. The stand-up, who begins a four-night run of his Blood Sugar Baby show at London's Soho Theatre ...
Will & Ralf Should Know Better, the TV show in which Will Mellor and Ralf Little take on a variety of challenges, is to return for a second series. The recommission follows the success of the ...