Monday 27th November 2023
Paramount+ has ordered its second romantic comedy series based on a Beth O'Leary novel, The Road Trip, starring Everything I Know About Love's Emma Appleton, Laurie Davidson and Rye Lane breakout David Jonsson.
Joe Lycett is to take on water companies and the sewage crisis for a new TV special.
Dawn French has landed a stand-up special, bringing her show Dawn French Is A Huge Twat to BBC One this Christmas. Recorded at the London Palladium, the show will also be available on iPlayer.
Thursday 23rd November 2023
Deborah Meaden, Kojey Radical, Lenny Rush, Steve Backshall and Zoe Ball will take part in a one-off Taskmaster special on Channel 4 this festive season.
Wednesday 22nd November 2023
Comedian Paul Black is piloting an entertainment format for BBC Scotland in which he will take on challenges set by his social media followers.
Tuesday 21st November 2023
Sky Comedy is to broadcast three stand-up specials this December: James Acaster: Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999, Alan Carr: Regional Trinket and Leo Reich: Literally Who Cares?!.
Monday 20th November 2023
ITVX has ordered Piglets, a sitcom set in a fictional police training college, created by the writing team behind Green Wing.
Friday 17th November 2023
ITV has confirmed that Changing Ends, the autobiographical comedy starring Alan Carr, is to return for a second series.
Hugh Bonneville and Karen Gillan are to star in Douglas Is Cancelled, a new comedy drama for ITVX written by Steven Moffat, his first television comedy in the two decades since Coupling.
Thursday 9th November 2023
Monumental Television, the producers of Ghosts, are working to bring novel The Three Graces to television. Amanda Craig's comic story follows three octogenarians who become involved in a Tuscany crime.
