Dave King was built from almost nothing by producer Ernest Maxin and took the world by storm. Then he all but disappeared.

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 ...

Frank Skinner, Harry Hill, Amy Gledhill, Harriet Kemsley and This Paranormal Life were amongst the winners at the inaugural ...

TV channel U&Gold has ordered Becoming Victoria Wood, a feature length documentary celebrating the life of Victoria Wood. The ...

Amazon has confirmed it has ordered a second series of Last One Laughing UK, following the success of the launch series. Jimmy Carr will return for six more half-hour episodes of the format, which ...

Rosie Jones will tour new stand-up show I Can't Tell What She's Saying from September.

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 ...

A new comedy night is launching in Newcastle Upon Tyne in July. Digital Laughs will take place in Digital, the nightclub on Times Square. The club promises "top names from the comedy circuit" to ...

In the middle of the worst, wettest winter in memory, all the brothers have to flog is sun-tan lotion. Things are looking grim until Uncle Albert falls down the cellar hatch at the Nag's Head: a big ...

You Rang, M'Lord?, the hit upstairs-downstairs television comedy from David Croft and Jimmy Perry, is to be followed up with a sequel, more than 30 years after it ended. Original series director Roy ...

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 ...

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 ...