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Black Ops. Image shows from L to R: Kay (Hammed Animashaun), Dom (Gbemisola Ikumelo), Tevin (Akemnji Ndifornyen)

Black Ops cast confirmed

Wednesday 15th June 2022

The BBC has confirmed Gbemisola Ikumelo, Hammed Animashaun and Akemnji Ndifornyen will star in comedy thriller Black Ops.

Starstruck. Image shows from L to R: Tom (Nikesh Patel), Jessie (Rose Matafeo)

Starstruck Series 3 confirmed

Monday 13th June 2022

BBC Three has ordered another six episodes of Starstruck, the sitcom starring Rose Matafeo. The recommission follows the news the rom-com has now clocked up over 8 million streams on iPlayer.

Michelle De Swarte

Michelle de Swarte pilots comedy drama High End Homeless for Channel 4

Friday 10th June 2022

Former catwalk model Michelle de Swarte channels her experiences of the fashion scene into pilot comedy drama High End Homeless.

Lily Allen

Lily Allen stars in Sky comedy from Sharon Horgan

Friday 10th June 2022

Lily Allen stars in Dreamland, a comedy drama for Sky made by Sharon Horgan's production company Merman, based on the 2017 short Morgana Robinson's Summer.

Jamie Demetriou. Copyright: Michael Shelford

Live At The Moth Club coming to Dave

Thursday 9th June 2022

Channel Dave will air Live At The Moth Club, a five-part series in which comedians including Jamie Demetriou, Natasia Demetriou, Ellie White, Cardinal Burns, Arnab Chanda, Ben Ashenden and Alexander Owen will perform on stage.

Joe Lycett's Got Your Back. Joe Lycett. Copyright: Rumpus Media

Joe Lycett to host C4 Big Pride Party

Thursday 9th June 2022

Joe Lycett is to host a live two-hour "big queer party" this summer on Channel 4.

Holly Walsh

Holly Walsh pilots apocalyptic hen party sitcom for the BBC

Tuesday 7th June 2022

Holly Walsh has directed Henpocalypse, a BBC pilot about a hen party caught up in a zombie pandemic.

Screw. Image shows left to right: Rose Gill (Jamie-Lee O'Donnell), Ali Shah (Faraz Ayub), Jackie Stokes (Laura Checkley), Don Carpenter (Ron Donachie), Leigh Henry (Nina Sosanya), Gary Campbell (Stephen Wight)

Screw Series 2 coming to Channel 4

Tuesday 7th June 2022

Channel 4 has announced the recommission of its prison comedy drama, Screw.

Inside No. 9. Image shows from L to R: Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith

Inside No. 9 to return for Series 8 and Series 9

Wednesday 1st June 2022

The BBC has confirmed it has ordered two more series of Inside No. 9. The recommission means that Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith's comedy anthology series will now run until at least Series 9.

Brett Gelman. Copyright: David-Simon Dayan

Fleabag actor Brett Gelman to star in Channel 4 comedy Entitled

Wednesday 1st June 2022

Channel 4 has commissioned Entitled, a sitcom series in which Brett Gelman plays an American widower who must get to know his British wife's estranged family as they compete for his newly inherited fortune.

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