Josh Widdicombe and Jack Dee will star in Josh, a new flatshare comedy for BBC Three. BBC Three’s Channel Editor, Sam Bickley, announced the commission of today. Written by Josh Widdicombe and Tom Craine (Live At The Electric), the six 30-minute episodes will follow Josh and two mates – Elis James as Owen and Beattie … >
Gavin & Stacey star James Corden has revealed that BBC Two’s The Wrong Mans will return for two new episodes later this year. Written by and starring Corden and Mathew Baynton (Yonderland), the comedy thriller series follows two well-meaning idiots who become entangled in a hideous world of crime, conspiracy and corruption. > Buy Season … >
ITV2 has released a new preview for the second series of The Job Lot. Starring Russell Tovey (Being Human) and Sarah Hadland (Miranda), the sitcom launched on ITV in April last year and six new episodes will air on ITV2 this autumn. Guest stars in Series 2 will include Keith Duffy, Meera Syal, Mark Benton and … >
The 18th season (yep, eighteenth!) of South Park begins airing in September, including the hit animated comedy’s milestone 250th episode. Can’t wait for the new season? Check out southparkslotmachine.net while you wait for the gang to return. This week marks 17 years since the show’s first ever episode, ‘Cartman Gets an Anal Probe’, aired – … >
David Walliams has announced that the second series of Big School will begin later this month. The actor confirmed the air date on Twitter today that Series 2 will start at 9.30pm on Friday 29 August on BBC One. Guest stars in the comedy’s new series include Morgana Robinson as children’s author Fenella Forbes, Jimmy Akingbola … >
In the world of popular television, there may be little alchemy more precarious than that of creating a popular sitcom hit. If ever the philosophy was that British viewers liked something a little savage or self-loathing, the success, in recent years, of shows such as Mrs Brown’s Boys, Benidorm and Miranda has proven that going … >
Channel 4 has announced the cast for new sitcom Scrotal Recall. Written by Tom Edge (The Midnight Beast), the six-part series will star singer-songwriter Johnny Flynn, Misfits actress Antonia Thomas and Daniel Ings (Peep Show, Psychoville). Flynn will play Dylan Witter – “a hapless chap whose romantic conquests have landed him in a sticky situation”. Dylan … >
The first trailer for the sequel to 2011 comedy film The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has been unveiled. The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel reunites Downton Abbey stars Maggie Smith and Penelope Wilton with Judi Dench (Skyfall), Bill Nighy (Love Actually), Dev Patel (Skins) and Celia Imrie (Doctor Who), alongside new cast members Tamsin Greig … >
The Office star Ewen Macintosh is back in An Audience with Barry, a series of ten new light-hearted videos from personal safety solutions experts 3M showing how to manage your Health and Safety challenges in the workplace. To celebrate, we’ve got a copy of The Office‘s first series on DVD to give away to one … >
Maybe it’s joke fatigue – the audience’s funnybones worn down by a lathe of relentless puns – but it tends to be the case with A Touch of Cloth that the second half feels a little less punchy and fresh than the first. It happened in Series 1, it happened more so in Series 2 … >