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British Comedy Guide is a website all about TV, radio & live comedy in the UK. https://t.co/ah1s93Nx2k Our other accounts: @BCGPro @BritComedyShop @UKLiveComedy
Joined April 2009
"I just want to be based in girl mode from now on". Eddie Izzard has revealed she is now exclusively using 'she' and 'her' pronouns:
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BBC Four's brilliant Detectorists is coming back for a feature-length special.
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Paul Whitehouse, Steve Coogan, Lee Mack and Joe Lycett are to perform at a protest against sewage being dumped in Lake Windermere:
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Motherland is returning for a Christmas special:
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"Back in the dog collar, back in Dibley and back on your telly at Xmas." Dawn French confirms The Vicar Of Dibley is to return for three new short episodes this December!
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Blackadder Series 5! Newspaper report suggests Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie have agreed to return. Blackadder will be a university lecturer this time:
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Ghosts will return in December for a Christmas special, with Jennifer Saunders guest starring as Lady Button's mother:
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Channel 4 has announced a final, extended length special episode of Derry Girls, set around the 1998 Good Friday Agreement referendum.
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It was 30 years ago this evening that The Day Today started delivering its own brand of news.
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Rose Matafeo and Mike Wozniak will host the Junior Taskmaster series:
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After Life has been voted Best Returning TV Sitcom & Comedy Of The Year 2020. Congratulations to @RickyGervais! Full results:
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Amazon Prime Video has bought new comedy film How To Date Billy Walsh, starring @SebastianCroft, Charithra Chandran, @_TannerBuchanan, @GuzKhanOfficial, @nickjfrost, Lucy Punch & Kunal Nayyar.
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Staged has been voted Best New TV Sitcom in our annual awards. Michael Sheen and David Tennant have accepted the trophy via Zoom. See their full video & the other results here: @staged2020 @michaelsheen @georgiaetennant @anna_lundbergs @SimonEvans25
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All three series of Gimme Gimme Gimme are now on iPlayer:
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'Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing' is to return for Series 8, with Paul and @RealBobMortimer revisiting the riverbanks of their youth. (Series 7 meanwhile is coming later this year).
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The Ghosts Christmas special was yesterday's most-watched new TV comedy, attracting an average of 3.92 million viewers. Doc Martin's finale came in at 3.26m, with Mrs. Brown's Boys at 2.44m.
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Ghosts will return this December for a Christmas special. Plot details:
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Joe Lycett has changed his name to Hugo Boss. It's part of an investigation for his Channel 4 consumer rights series, Joe Lycett's Got Your Back.
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BBC2 is going to start to show classic comedy films around 3pm each day. Mon 6th: School For Scoundrels.Tue 7th: The Man In The White Suit.Wed 8th: The Titfield Thunderbolt.Thu 9th: Whisky Galore!.Fri 10th: The Lavender Hill Mob
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Good Omens: Best TV Comedy Drama 2023. Here's a video in which Neil Gaiman (@neilhimself) accepts the award. More details:.
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Best Returning TV Sitcom 2021: Ghosts. The creators and stars say "We're thrilled to have won", adding "Thanks to everyone who voted. We shall be returning again later this year so don't go anywhere!". Full results:
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Series 2 of Ghosts is coming to BBC1 later this month (exact date TBC shortly):
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Kylie Minogue will arrive at Button House in a new Ghosts sketch set to air on Red Nose Day:
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Sean Lock dictates his own obituary on a 2016 episode of 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown.
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Ghosts is to return for a 2022 Christmas special. The episode will focus on a festive trip down memory lane that prompts Pat to question his very identity:
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Michael Sheen and David Tennant return for a third series of Staged. The new episodes launch on BritBox on 24th November:
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Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse are fishing in Norway for their new Christmas special. It's also confirmed they want to keep making more, "We won't stop until we're told":
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Bill Bailey is currently filming for a new Channel 4 show in which he walks the British coastline with comic pals, ending at a pub.
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Hitmen - the new sitcom starring Mel & Sue - is coming to Sky in early 2020. Here's the first look image. More info:
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300 Years Of French And Saunders - the duo's 30th anniversary special - is pencilled in 10:35pm on BBC1 on Christmas Day.
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Mortimer & Whitehouse are going Christmas Fishing once again. This year's special features footballer Paul Gascoigne, Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott.
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"I have won many awards in my time, but this is the first for being reasonable." @RickyGervais to be presented with Richard Dawkins Award for raising consciousness of atheism and secular values:
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Filming has started on Friday Night Dinner Series 6. Jonny and Adam both get 'females', and Jim gets a new dog:
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At 10:55pm, 50 years ago today, a new sketch show started on the BBC: Monty Python's Flying Circus. Thank you to Graham Chapman, @JohnCleese, @TerryGilliam, @EricIdle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin for five decades of brilliant comedy!
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The boys are back on the river bank! Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing will return for a new series.
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Congratulations to @MrMichaelSpicer. Our visitors have voted his Radio 4 show 'Michael Spicer: Before Next Door' as the Best Radio Sitcom 2020. Full results:
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Derry Girls will be back for a brand new third series. Channel 4 has confirmed Series 3 tonight:
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Andrew Lawrence has sparked outrage with tweets "stirring up racism". Several comedy clubs have now cancelled upcoming appearances from him:
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Have you heard? Never Mind The Buzzcocks is coming back: - It'll likely be a new host. Let us know who you think they should give the job to.
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Katherine Ryan is to host a special all-female episode of 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown to mark 100 years of women's suffrage:
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Mike Bubbins is piloting Mammoth, a BBC sitcom about a macho 1970s PE teacher who is brought back from the dead and starts teaching again in 2021:
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Ghosts Christmas special: Wednesday 23rd December, 8:30pm, BBC1.
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An important reminder from 1989 TV series Maid Marian And Her Merry Men.
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Comedian Dane Baptiste has been dropped by his agent, @Gag_Reflex, after making a public, misogynistic, antisemitic death threat to another comic.
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Ghosts has just won Best Comedy at the South Bank Sky Arts Awards 2021. Other Ghosts news: filming is now complete on Series 3; meanwhile the US remake starts on CBS on 7th October. USA trailer:
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Stewart Lee and Brass Eye director Michael Cumming are trying to raise the funds to make a film about Kevin Eldon:
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Best Radio Sitcom 2021 - Michael Spicer: Before Next Door. Here's a video from @MrMichaelSpicer . Full results:
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Taskmaster Series 19 line-up: Fatiha El-Ghorri, Jason Mantzoukas, Mathew Baynton, Rosie Ramsey and Stevie Martin.
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Matt Berry (@porksmith) has confirmed he intends to write a new series of Toast Of London.
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Detectorists could return with brand new episodes, Mackenzie Crook has revealed.
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Tony Robinson has revealed he's in talks with Netflix to reboot 90s sitcom classic Maid Marian And Her Merry Men:
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John Cleese is joining GB News, presenting a show on cancel culture, wokeness and politics with Andrew Doyle:
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The exceptional Garth Marenghi's Darkplace - starring Matthew @MrHolness, Matt Berry (@porksmith), @AliceLowe & @RichardAyoade - started on television 20 years ago today. Article:
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Series 3 of Motherland starts on BBC2 soon. Here's a first look picture of Joanna Lumley guest starring as Amanda's mother:
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Horrible Histories is to receive a special Bafta award for its "extraordinary cultural and social impact".
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Bob Mortimer is to publish his autobiography in September. 'And Away. ' is described as "warm, profound, and irrepressibly funny":
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Frankie Boyle's New World Order returns to TV for a second series on 18th May:
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Lynn is back with Alan Partridge! The BBC confirms Felicity Montagu will star alongside Steve Coogan in new sitcom 'This Time With Alan Partridge':
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Stath Lets Flats Series 3 begins at 10:15pm on Tuesday 26th October on Channel 4.
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Ghosts returns to BBC One on Monday 21st September at 8:30pm.
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Fast Show reunion confirmed! Paul Whitehouse, Charlie Higson, Arabella Weir, John Thomson, Simon Day and Mark Williams will film Gold special 'The Fast Show: Just A Load Of Blooming Catchphrases':
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First look picture for Series 4 of Catastrophe. It'll be on Channel 4 in January:
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A petition calling for Alan Partridge to replace Piers Morgan on Good Morning Britain is gathering momentum:
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Drop The Dead Donkey is to return as a touring stage show. Written by creators Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin, it reunites the original cast:
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Channel 4 has changed its schedule tonight, to highlight the brilliance of Sean Lock. 10pm: 'Keep It Light' stand-up show.11pm: 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown
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The contest begins. Taskmaster: Champion Of Champions, starts Wednesday 13th December 2017 at 9pm on Dave.
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Ghosts was the most-watched TV comedy of 2023, with 6.62 million viewers. Top 10 list here:
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Best TV Entertainment Show 2019 - Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing .Full results:
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Scot sitcom hit Two Doors Down will be back for a fifth series in 2021.
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"Keep it Kurupt!" People Just Do Nothing Series 5 confirmed:
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Comic actor and comedian John Sessions has died aged 67:
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First look picture of James Fleet and Dawn French in the new Vicar Of Dibley episodes. More info:
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CONFIRMED: Catastrophe Series 4 debuts on Channel 4, Monday 7th January at 10pm.
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The Day Today team have reunited for a 30th anniversary celebration. The Reunion will be on Radio 4 on 15th August.
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At this moment in time 15 years ago, The IT Crowd - starring Katherine Parkinson, @bigboyler & @RichardAyoade - first appeared on TV:
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Phoebe Waller-Bridge performing the National Theatre Live 2019 stage version of Fleabag is now available to stream on Amazon Prime:
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Matt Berry is to return as Steven Toast in new BBC sitcom spin-off Toast In America:
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Best TV Comedy Drama 2019 & Comedy Of The Year: Good Omens .Full results:
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Taskmaster 11 starts Thursday 18th March. Charlotte Ritchie, Jamali Maddix, Lee Mack, Mike Wozniak and Sarah Kendall are the contestants:
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Friday Night Dinner Series 5 confirmed. More details here:
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Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe returns on Thursday 29th January. (@charltonbrooker): http://t.co/QfUPd91sG3
http://t.co/exeEXucqNI.
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Alan Partridge is returning to the BBC for a new show. Six-part documentary series 'And Did Those Feet. ' follows him as he reintegrates into Britain after a year working in Saudi Arabia. More details:.
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Limmy has said that he he will no longer make shows for television, to focus on his Twitch channel. A final special, Limmy's Other Stuff, will be broadcast on BBC Scotland soon:
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Free tickets to be in the studio audience for @ComicRelief 2019 on 15 March: . Confirmed presenters: Sir @LennyHenry, @EmmaWillis, @PaddyMcGuinness, @RomeshRanga, @AleshaOfficial, @ZoeTheBall, David Tennant, @ClaraAmfo, @RobBeckettComic and @Joe_Sugg
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Michael Sheen (finally) appears on RHLSTP With Richard Herring:
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The BBC has ordered a sixth series of Inside No. 9. Series 5 starts on BBC2 soon.
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Adrian Chiles, Claudia Winkleman, Jonnie Peacock, Lady Leshurr and Sayeeda Warsi will take part in the one-off Taskmaster New Year Treat special:
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Taskmaster Series 15: Frankie Boyle (@FrankieBoyle).Ivo Graham (@IvoGraham).Jenny Éclair (@JennyEclair).Kiell Smith-Bynoe (@kfRedhot).Mae Martin (@TheMaeMartin)
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Dave Gorman: Modern Life Is Goodish is returning to Dave after 7 years for a new series. @DaveGorman .
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The Danebury Metal Detecting Club is threatened with losing its home and ceasing to exist in the new Detectorists special:
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Wishing Rhod Gilbert all the best. He has revealed in a Facebook post that he is being treated at a cancer centre:
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