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

Steve Coogan has credited his lower-working class upbringing as helping him get ahead in comedy. The Alan Partridge creator said he first realised his background was a ‘superpower’ when he went to ...

Fry stars as Alice’s husband Daniel, with Tyrese Eaton-Dyce as her son Dom and The Crown’s Warren as Alice’s mother Val. Rounding out the cast are Eilidh Fisher and Ebony Aboagye. The six-episode ...

The report adds: ‘The BBC is widely recognised for backing emerging talent and taking risk to work with people early in their careers, which underpins the UK’s comedy talent pipeline.’ It said ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...