Alex Horne was petrified of killing Jason Mantzoukas with an egg on the current series of Taskmaster. The actor is severely ...

ITV has confirmed that its police training comedy Piglets is returning for a second series. The broadcaster today announced that filming has begun on six new half-hour episodes. It comes after star ...

Visitors to FringeRat are shown a short video of a randomly selected act. They can either click ‘Get tickets’ to go to the Fringe website and see details of the act’s show, or click ‘Scamper on’ to ...

The BBC has ordered a second series of Only Child, its cross-generational sitcom starring Gregor Fisher and Greg McHugh as father and son. Written once again by Bryce Hart, the second series of six ...

Diane Morgan is to play a humanoid robot created to keep elderly people company in a new BBC One sitcom. The Cunk star wrote the six-part series – provisionally called Ann Droid – with fellow comic ...

Guz Khan is to star alongside Morgana Robinson and Sue Johnston in a one-off family comedy this Christmas. In Stuffed he plays Arslan Farooqi, who receives an unexpected £8,000 Christmas bonus at work ...

The recommission was announced at the BBC Coemd Festival in Belfast today. It is written by its stars Rian Lennon and Ryan Dylan, and directed by Lennon, with Lee Dobbin completing the core cast.

The BBC has recommissioned The Young Offenders for a fifth series. Alex Murphy and Chris Walley will return as Conor and Jock, reunited in Cork after both spent series four in different prisons.

The BBC has ordered a second series of its Welsh animated comedy The Golden Cobra. The show is set around Ebbw Vale’s worst takeaway, owned by short-tempered Basil who lives there with his ...

Lenny Rush is to play The Reluctant Vampire in a new supernatural comedy based on Eric Morecambe ’s books. The comic’s 1982 novel and its follow-up The Vampire’s Revenge are being adapted for BBC One ...

Spending more money on comedy shows doesn’t make them funnier, the BBC’s comedy chief has said. In a speech that might make sobering reading for production companies grappling with budgets, Jon Petrie ...