BBC Director of Comedy Jon Petrie unveiled the shows today at the BBC Comedy Festival in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where it also revealed more than £500,000 ($672,000) in additional funding for new ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. EXCLUSIVE: Steve Coogan is bringing a long-gestating Alan Partridge comedy doc series to the BBC. Deadline can reveal that the ...

Dysfunctional but lovable hosts Chi and Lucas invite eight bewildered celebrities to sit on their pedalo on Ramsgate Boating Lake and discuss things they wish they'd done in their lives Lucas and Chi ...

The upcoming Christmas special for BBC sitcom Mandy has been pulled from schedules at the last minute. It was originally set to air on Monday, 22 December, but now it will be shown in 2026 instead.

Am I Being Unreasonable? Season 2 will begin where season 1 left off: mid panic attack. Has Nic got away with murder? Quite possibly. Has she raised her son Ollie to follow in her murky footsteps?

Comedy producers have been told to locate their “funny bones” when pitching shows to the BBC by the most powerful person in British comedy commissioning. Jon Petrie, who runs BBC comedy, set out his ...

Now in its fourth year, the BBC Comedy Collective is continuing its commitment to support the next generation of comedy talent The BBC Comedy Collective, which supports and accelerates the next ...

Two standout new writers will be joining the award winning Comedy and Entertainment Audio Productions team on two six month schemes For us at BBC Studios, it is important to continue to seek out and ...

A BBC series dubbed "cracking" and "comedy gold" by viewers is reportedly returning for a third series. Mammoth, which is about about a PE teacher from the 1970s getting a second chance at life, ...

Cunk star Diane Morgan, Monty Python‘s Michael Palin and Pirates of the Caribbean actor Mackenzie Crook all feature in a 10-strong comedy slate at the UK’s BBC. BBC Director of Comedy Jon Petrie ...