Russell Kane and Capital Breakfast DJ Sian Welby are presenting a new quiz app from ITV. The free-to-play game puts up a £1,000 prize pot daily – shared across 60 players who get all the questions ...

The cast of Peep Show are reuniting for a Christmas Bake Off special. David Mitchell, Olivia Colman, Isy Suttie, Matt King and Sophie Winkleman are taking part in the special – but Robert Webb is ...

ITV has released some teaser clips for the third series of Alan Carr’s Changing Ends. The comedy returns on Sunday, and will be stripped across the week with new episode airing directly after I’m A ...

If the TV Festival moves out of Edinburgh it will be a wake-up call for the city and the Fringe as fears rise that exorbitant accommodation prices are making it increasingly unviable for performer ...

Urzila Carlson is to star in her own series mixing stand-up and sketches. The show – called simply Urzila – is being made for Australia’s ABC, where it will air next year. A number of other comics are ...

Eli Hart has been crowned winner of this year’s BBC New Comedy Awards. The comic took the prize at the final, which was held at Bradford’s Alhambra Theatre last month, and which aired on BBC One ...

The simply named Comedians Do Carols has been created by stand-up Amy Annette, who said: ‘For me, the best part of the festive period has always been the carols. Singing as loud as possible, often ...

Thirty years on, and The Fast Show isn’t short of fans. This reunion tour which started last year is running into next, and catchphrases – the word ‘arse’, specifically – are yelled before the cast ...

Netflix has today announced that Ricky Gervais ’s Mortality will have its global release on Tuesday December 30. It is the comic’s fourth special for the streamer following Humanity, Supernature, and ...

The first pictures have been released for the new Dawn French and Mark Heap comedy Can You Keep a Secret? The six-part series apparently inspired by the case of ‘canoe man’ John Darwin – the ...

Garry Starr is hoping to set a Guinness World Record for ‘longest cumulative time of full-frontal nudity in a West End stage show’. The comic alter-ego of Australian clown Damien Warren-Smith performs ...

Jason Byrne is making a series he likens to an Irish version of The Simpsons. The loosely autobiographical The Irelands of Ireland is an adult animation set in a Dublin pub in the 1980s and 1990s. The ...