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Limmy's Homemade Show gets series
Wednesday 21st August 2019
Scottish comedian Limmy has been commissioned to make a series of Limmy's Homemade Show, his one-man sketch show.
Sophie Willan sitcom joins 2019 New On Two
Wednesday 21st August 2019
Sophie Willan is to pilot her own BBC sitcom, Alma's Not Normal.
Sara Pascoe gets BBC Two sitcom
Wednesday 21st August 2019
Sara Pascoe has had her own BBC Two sitcom commissioned, to be produced with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.
Channel 4 commissions female Muslim sitcom Lady Parts
Wednesday 21st August 2019
Channel 4 has ordered a musical comedy series about an all-female Muslim punk band called Lady Parts.
Channel 4 orders another series of Home
Wednesday 21st August 2019
Home, the sitcom by Rufus Jones about a Syrian immigrant living with a family in Dorking, is to return to Channel 4 for a second series.
There She Goes moved to BBC Two for new series
Wednesday 21st August 2019
David Tennant and Jessica Hynes will return for a second series of comedy drama There She Goes, now moving to BBC Two.
Channel 4 orders flesh-eating comedy drama horror
Monday 19th August 2019
Channel 4 has ordered Generation Z, a comedy drama from Ben Wheatley featuring "pitch-black humour".
Tom Allen gets Channel 4 pilot
Thursday 15th August 2019
Tom Allen will host a new Channel 4 pilot visiting and celebrating towns across Britain.
Channel 4 orders more Joe Lycett's Got Your Back
Thursday 15th August 2019
Joe Lycett is to return to Channel 4 with a second series of his consumer-rights comedy series Joe Lycett's Got Your Back.
'Werewolf: Live' signs TV development deal
Wednesday 31st July 2019
Werewolf: Live, the stage comedy show hosted by Jon Gracey in which comedians verbally battle for survival, is being developed for TV.