Michael Sheen takes the helm on House of Games from Monday 5 October 2026. It marks the multi-award-winning actor’s debut as quiz show host, following in Richard Osman's footsteps. Below he talks abou...

Following two hugely successful series and a record-breaking Christmas special last year, BBC Comedy has commissioned an Amandaland Christmas special for 2026.The award-winning series, starring Lucy P...

The cliché runs that most stand up comedians would kill to be rock stars and a lot of rock stars would fancy a go at comedy.

Faulty Towers The Dining Experience, the multi award-winning international immersive dining phenomenon, celebrates 30 years worldwide and 15 years in the West End in 2027, alongside its 4,000th West E...

The new series of The Celebrity Traitors begins on Thursday 1 October at 8pm on BBC One and BBC iPlayer. The series will air two nights a week on Thursday and Friday.Why are you taking part in The Cel...

The new series of The Celebrity Traitors begins on Thursday 1 October at 8pm on BBC One and BBC iPlayer. The series will air two nights a week on Thursday and Friday.Why have you signed up to The Cele...

Tom Allen announces his brand-new UK tour, Totally, which hits the road in 2027 running through to 2028.Tom is totalling up what life is all about. He has been told to live in the moment but gets dist...

Inside No 9 star Reece Shearsmith is the latest guest on Dish from Waitrose, hosted by Nick Grimshaw and Angela Hartnett OBE.Reece talks about Halloween; ghosts; the afterlife; catching bats; and his ...

Saturday Night Live UK has announced the host and musical guest line‑up for the next three episodes of its second series.On 10 October, BAFTA award-winning actor Danny Dyer (Rivals, Mr Big Stuff) will...

National trinket Julian Clary is making a highly-anticipated return to theatres across the UK from Wednesday 7th April – Saturday 5th June 2027, with a 40-date tour of his brand-new hour ‘Fully Dilate...

Break Clause is a six-part romantic comedy series written and created by Jess Bray and directed by Alice Snedden. It follows Ben and Lil as they navigate their break-up while stuck in the same flat.Mo...

A recent article on the Observer looked at the veterans returning to the Edinburgh Fringe this year. The piece mentioned the likes of Alexei Sayle and Craig Ferguson and, erm, Sue "hardly ancient" Per...

Break Clause is a six-part romantic comedy series written and created by Jess Bray and directed by Alice Snedden. It follows Ben and Lil as they navigate their break-up while stuck in the same flat.Mo...

Strictly - It Takes Two returns this September to BBC Two and BBC iPlayer with a new look and a new host: comedian, presenter, and former Strictly contestant Ellie Taylor.Ellie's mission is to bring y...

There are reports on Facebook that comedian and musician Tony De Meur, also known as Ronnie Golden, has died.Posts say that he suffered a heart attack.Golden was a well-known figure on the comedy ciru...

New images have been released for new comedy It Gets Worse, produced by A24. Written, created by and starring Leo Reich, the new images feature guest stars Lena Dunham as Greta, Amelia Dimoldenberg as...

The Celebrity Traitors Countdown Begins..

The BBC has confirmed that the upcoming comedy The Reluctant Vampire, based on the books by comedy legend Eric Morecambe and written by Rob and Neil Gibbons (Alan Partridge), will come to screens on S...

Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker has revealed more details about his next project.Blackmere is described as “an absurd comedy disguised as an incredibly serious crime thriller. Tormented Detective...

Bob Mortimer and Richard Ayoade are to front a new game show on Netflix.In Hot or Cold contestants will take on challenges and run from room to room in a quest to be crowned Hot or Cold Champion.Conte...

Edinburgh Comedy Awards nominee and star of the upcoming Last One Laughing Halloween Special, Harriet Dyer is heading out on a UK tour with her hit show Easily Distra… fresh from an incredible run and...

Comedian Adam Hills is taking his live show Shoes Half Full on the road in 2027, with a limited number of weekend shows throughout February and March 2027. Tickets go on sale from Friday 25th Septembe...

Comedians Grace Campbell, Munya Chawawa and Michelle de Swarte are among the celebrities being painted in the new series of Portrait Artist of the Year, which returns to Sky Arts and streaming service...

With a brand new series of Not Going Out marking 20 years of the record breaking show, the BBC is celebrating the occasion with this documentary charting the history of Lee Mack's sitcom.And there is ...

Guz Khan has just turned 40, a mid-life wake up call for the Coventry-born comedian and actor, whose father died aged just 36 years old. This turning point in Guz’s life has prompted him to ask profou...

BBC Northern Ireland and CBC have unveiled first look images of new romantic comedy Committed, starring Dustin Milligan (Schitt’s Creek, Hot Frosty) and Diona Doherty (Derry Girls, Blue Lights).The im...

Mark Bonnar (Guilt, Line of Duty, Catastrophe) and Ashley Jensen (Shetland, After Life, Catastrophe) will lead the cast in Rambling, an enchanting, warm and witty new one-off sitcom for BBC iPlayer, B...

The new series of The Celebrity Traitors begins on Thursday 1 October at 8pm on BBC One and BBC iPlayer. The series will air two nights a week on Thursday and Friday. How does it feel to be here, abou...

The new series of The Celebrity Traitors begins on Thursday 1 October at 8pm on BBC One and BBC iPlayer. The series will air two nights a week on Thursday and Friday evenings at 8pm.Why did you decide...

The new series of The Celebrity Traitors begins on Thursday 1 October at 8pm on BBC One and BBC iPlayer. The series will air two nights a week on Thursday and Friday evenings at 8pm.You were live on R...

Why have you decided to take part in The Celebrity Traitors?I just love it. I'm a huge fan and have been since series one. I instantly got addicted to it when I started watching. I think I started wat...

The new series of The Celebrity Traitors begins on Thursday 1 October at 8pm on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.

Nobody has mined their unfolding life for comic inspiration quite as well as Sharon Horgan, From Pulling to Catastrophe and beyond (co-writing Motherland and creating Divorce for Sarah Jessica Parker,...

The financial world has the FTSE Index. The Comedy world now has the Tee Hee Index. Welcome to the first ever chart that keeps track of who is up and who is down in the world of comedy, put together b...

New first look images released ahead of Strictly Come Dancing's return to BBC One and iPlayer on Saturday 19 September show Emma Willis, Johannes Radebe and Josh Widdicombe presenting the show for the...

This year’s Celebrity MasterChef champion is paralympic athlete Lauren Steadman MBE. This series saw the who’s who of comedy, music, sports and show business enter through the famous kitchen doors, 15...

Following a run at the Edinburgh Fringe, award-winning comedian, podcaster and writer Milo Edwards (Frank Off The Radio, The Naked Week, Glue Factory, Trashfuture) takes his latest stand-up hour, Cata...

The Bookseller has reported that HarperCollins has dropped the backlist of children’s author David Walliams, HarperCollins has not commented but has confirmed this to The Bookseller.This follows the p...

One of Ireland’s favourite comedians, Deirdre O’Kane, is back on tour with All The Rage, her new show, touring the UK and Ireland from autumn 2026. In a world that feels off its axis, O’Kane takes on ...

As I write there's a moderately heated discussion on social media about whether Slow Horses is funny any more. I've not reviewed it here in the past because i've never seen it as a comedy.

BBC Two, BBC Northern Ireland and iPlayer have released exclusive first-look images of Bill Murray as he joined by his extended family, including Joel and John Murray, celebrity friends Chris O’Dowd, ...

I've occasionally been late to a party but never as late as this. I gave Widow's Bay a fairly wide berth when it landed earlier this year because it didn;t seem like a comedy. But this week its star M...

Following the success of the BBC Comedy Festival in Liverpool in May, BBC Comedy and the Liverpool Film Office have partnered to launch the BBC Comedy Liverpool Script Development project. Part of the...

Channel 4 has released the trailer for Break Clause, a new six-part romantic comedy series starring Samuel Bottomley (How to Have Sex) and Lara Ricote (Mitchell And Webb Are Not Helping).Break Clause ...

What makes a scandal a scandal? Why do some stories bring down governments while others become national obsessions for a week and then disappear?

Following a sell-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe, Jack Dee takes his new show, Jack’s Joke Show on the road.Who doesn’t like jokes? If your answer to that question is “Me!” then steer well clear of th...

BBC Radio 4 has also commissioned a huge variety of new stand-up to go in the Stand-Up Specials feed on BBC Sounds, including Bella Hull’s Guide to More or Less Being Okay, a new series from SNL UK wr...

BBC Radio 4 has announced a raft of comedy commissions, including Greatest Living Writer, a new audio comedy from Richard Curtis. The series centres on John Westlake (Bill Nighy), a literary titan who...

This year's Women in Comedy Festival in Manchester showcases award winners, acts fresh from this summer’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival and up and comers in the comedy world.From 1st to 11th October, 53 s...