Death Valley has become the most-watched new BBC scripted comedy title in five years. The show – starring Timothy Spall as an actor turned amateur sleuth and Gwyneth Keyworth as a police detective – ...

Hacks is to return for a fifth season, charting the attempts of fictional comedy veteran Deborah Vance to dominate late-night TV. American broadcaster HBO announced that the comedy would be returning ...

Meanwhile, fellow Taskmaster alumna Desiree Burch is taking her new show The Golden Wrath on tour in October, after a two-week at the Edinburgh Fringe in August. It is her first new show since 2019, ...

Jimmy Carr has launched a new comedy podcast with Netflix. In each episode of The Big Pitch a fellow comedian will suggest a movie idea that might fit one of the 27,000 sub-categories on the streaming ...

Sarah McGettigan, head of television production at Pinewood Studios, brought home the scale of the crisis by saying that ...

Join Michael and Hilary Whitehall for an exclusive show as they bring their hit podcast to the stage. Michael and Hilary will invite audiences to settle into a comfy (ish) seat for an unfiltered ...

Beautifully observed and effortlessly charming, The Ballad of Wallis Island is a melodic, delicately meditative comedy about love and loss that could have been insufferably twee, and yet perhaps ...

Cult comedy podcast CheapShow is to release a vinyl record to mark its tenth birthday. The release will include music tracks – including the winners of its Urinevision Song Contest – sketches, and new ...

Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker. And this week's theme is the Big Apple, Gotham, the ...

Radio 4 is to pay tribute to the late comedy producer Bill Dare in three special programmes next month.

Here are a couple of stand-ups talking about a new notion called ‘prompt theory’ – the idea some people have that they are AI creations formed from bots being fed the right bots. The comics are part ...

Here’s the first batch of outtakes from season 19 of Taskmaster. They include an awkward exchange between Greg Davies and Fatiha El-Ghorri that turned to the subject of his big hands, Alex Horne ...