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The University of York has launched a fundraising campaign to secure the archive of comedy writers Ray Galton and Alan ...
Humphrey Ker and David Reed are to play Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson in [l]Sherlock Holmes and The Twelve Days of ...
Pro member, writer and director Brad Holcombe explains how he made his first short film, Rocks Under Tide. Brad's message - ...
Anna Thomas has landed her debut radio sitcom, with the winner of the 2021 BBC New Comedy Award writing and starring in Gulls ...
When Sir Walter Raleigh returns to England's fair shore bringing luxuries such as the potato, the Queen falls in love with the explorers' dream. Edmund merely falls in love with the idea of fame, and ...
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 ...
Paul Zerdin, the ventriloquist who won America's Got Talent, is bringing his next show, Jaw Drop, on tour later this year, starting in September in Norwich and going through until November, ending ...
Channel 4 has commissioned Schooled, a six-part comedy series based on writer Delia-René Donaldson's real experiences in pastoral care at a London school. The network explains: "Schooled is a comedic ...
Rosie Jones will tour new stand-up show I Can't Tell What She's Saying from September.
We're excited to have a new themed-quiz from Kate Emmett. This one is based around European languages appearing in British comedy. 1. Which sitcom character peppered his speech with incorrectly used ...
Topical impression show Dead Ringers is to return to Radio 4 in June. Holmes says: "As a then BBC contract writer, I was involved with the development and writing of Dead Ringers back when we began ...