Simon Pegg is adapting Galaxy Quest for television. The Star Trek star and writer is working to transfer the cult Trek spoof to the small screen with The Thick Of It and Succession writer Georgia Pritchett.
Four part series Romesh Ranganathan: For The Love Of Hip Hop is to be broadcast on BBC Radio 2 this August. He says: "I feel like there's a big group of people that feel like hip hop isn't for them, but it absolutely is".
Mae Martin has signed a first-look deal for any new projects they develop, with production company Objective Fiction, following the international success of sitcom Feel Good.
Stewart Lee is to present a Radio 4 documentary on the literary device of the unreliable narrator. He has also revealed that he was once asked to audition to play Alan Davies in a sitcom.
Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie are reuniting on screen for the first time in more than a decade. Animated film The Canterville Ghost, based on the short story by Oscar Wilde, has been in development for 11 years but is only now in production.
TV comedy producer Charlie Hanson has been accused of being a sexual predator. 11 women have outlined allegations against him in a letter to BAFTA and Netflix. He denies all the claims.
Anneka Rice is writing a sitcom about her imaginary former agent. Clemmie Hart was the fictional representative she created to continue fielding work offers while she took time out from showbusiness to raise her children.
Shane Allen, the BBC's comedy commissioning boss for the past nine years, is to leave the broadcaster and establish a new production company, Boffola Pictures, with Kate Daughton.
