Thursday 23rd August 2018
Derry Girls has won the Edinburgh Television Festival Award for comedy. Rachel Parris is named Best Breakthrough Talent.
Romesh Ranganathan is to host his own weekly, topical comedy series for BBC Two.
Filming has begun on the second series of Fleabag. All the main characters return, with Sherlock star Andrew Scott joining the cast.
Plebs has been confirmed to return to ITV2 for a fifth series in 2019.
Wednesday 22nd August 2018
Murder In Successville star Tom Davis will star as a "working class wally" in new BBC One Comedy Playhouse sitcom pilot 'king Gary.
Derren Litten, the creator of Benidorm, has written a new sitcom series for BBC One called Scarborough.
A pilot episode of live comedy format Amusical is to be filmed by Comedy Central. Hosted by Jayde Adams and Kiri Pritchard-McLean, the show sees comedians singing their favourite songs from stage and screen.
Mark Strong will play a surgeon running an illegal underground clinic in Sky One's new darkly comic thriller Temple.
Channel 4 has ordered Mo's Show, a new comedy entertainment series hosted by stand-up comedian Mo Gilligan.
Channel 4 has commissioned a Christmas special and second series of The Big Narstie Show.
