Saturday 23rd August 2014
Frankie Boyle has blasted TV commissioners for not taking risks, and criticised Mock The Week for no longer talking about important topics.
Friday 22nd August 2014
BBC One has ordered a comedy drama series based on Emma Kennedy's best-selling book, The Tent, The Bucket and Me.
BBC One has ordered Mountain Goats, a sitcom about a mountain rescue team. The comedy was piloted earlier this year under the title Miller's Mountain.
Plot details have been released about the second series of James Corden and Mathew Baynton's The Wrong Mans, which is now filming.
Sky1 is making Agatha Raisin And The Quiche Of Death, a one-off crime comedy drama starring Ashley Jensen as the character from the M C Beaton novel series.
Channel Dave has ordered 10 more episodes of Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled, the comic conversation format hosted by Alan Davies.
Thursday 21st August 2014
Comedy Central is on the look-out for uncsripted comedy series in the vein of MTV's Geordie Shore to complement its new sitcom commissions.
ITV2 has commissioned a brand new sketch show starring Leigh Francis's comedy alter-ego, Keith Lemon.
E4 has ordered a new comedy series called Chewing Gum, in which singer, poet and playwright Michaela Coel plays a Beyoncé-obsessed 22-year-old.
BBC Two has ordered Boy Meets Girl, Britain's first transgender sitcom series.
