The BBC has released the trailer for its Motherland spin-off Amandaland. The London-set comedy revolves around Lucy Punch’s snobbish character Amanda having to downsize post-divorce and move away from ...

Producers of Noel Fielding ’s abandoned Dick Turpin comedy are hoping to salvage enough footage to be able to make an hour-long special, it has been suggested. Work on Apple TV+’s big-budget escapade ...

Malaysian comedian Harith Iskander faces police action after making a pun about the word ‘ham’ deemed to have mocked Islam. The stand-up posted a joke on social media about an iced coffee drink called ...

Vislor Antilly, the German Shepherd who played Brandy, Ricky Gervais ’ sidekick in After Life, has died at the age of 13. In 2018, Gervais cast Anti as the companion of his character Tony Johnson as ...

Sky has released the trailer for its forthcoming series Small Town, Big Story, described as a 'very dramatic comedy’. Written by Chris O’Dowd, the show stars Mad Men’s Christina Hendricks as a ...

• Glamrou: Drag Mother is at Soho Theatre at 9.15pm until Saturday before an American tour in March.

Brassic is to end after its seventh series airs this year, Sky has announced. The show, which launched in 2019, is the most watched Sky original comedy of all time, and will be bowing out on a high, ...

The line-up for this year’s Alpine comedy festival Altitude has been announced. Jason Byrne, Tim Vine, Justin Moorhouse, Jessica Fostekew, and Phil Ellis are among those playing the Austrian ski ...

London’s marathon 50-hour improvised show is to return for a 15th year. This year’s ‘Improvathon’ is entitled Because We Can Can Can! and is described as 'Moulin Rouge meets The Greatest Showman’.

Eddie Kadi is to host this year’s Mobo Awards for the second time, The comedian will present the ceremony at the Utilita Arena, Newcastle, on February 18 with Love Island’s Indiyah Polack. Kadi said: ...

The line-up has been announced for the 19th series of Taskmaster. The contestants for the new run, coming soon to Channel 4, are: Greg Davies returns as Taskmaster with Alex Horne as its faithful ...

Birds of a Feather star Pauline Quirke has retired from acting, with her husband revealing that she was diagnosed with dementia in 2021. The 65-year-old – who played Sharon in the long-running sitcom ...