Comedy
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NewsDisney+ orders first Canadian originals
Comedy and true crime series greenlights come a week after country u-turned on plans to increase streamer spending requirements
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NewsS4C and ITV set debut scripted project with Triongl dark comedy drama
Santa Maria reunites The Light in the Hall creatives
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NewsU&Gold to chronicle Last of the Summer Wine
Actor Brian Conley to revisit Yorkshire set and cast of the longest-running comedy
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NewsKatherine Parkinson calls for more British family sitcoms
Bafta-winning actress and Rivals star touts the value of “having something to watch and enjoy together”
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NewsJon Petrie to swap BBC for Hat Trick
Corporation’s comedy director heads to How to Get to Heaven from Belfast and Derry Girls indie for senior role
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NewsIn brief: Goalhanger investment arm; ITV’s Piglets ends; Goldenpeak buys Ampere Analysis
Podcast platform to back creator-led ventures through dedicated division
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NewsIn brief: Workebee expands live events operations; Mitchell & Webb launch YouTube channel
Banijay UK label teams with Banijay Live-owned Lotchi to produce London edition of light show Luminiscence
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NewsLee Mack rails against snobbery towards studio sitcoms
‘People think if you can hear an audience laugh, it is in the past’, comic says
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NewsJames Corden urges double series orders for new comedy
Gavin & Stacey co-creator wants networks to give shows more time to prove themselves
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NewsJon Petrie: it’s good Small Prophets didn’t get an American backer
BBC comedy director suggests Mackenzie Crook series benefitted from protracted funding search
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NewsDiane Morgan talks up power of silly comedy
Writer and actor discusses her love of physicality and ‘weirdo’ characters
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NewsJon Petrie challenges streamers to up comedy commissioning
Genre chief says BBC welcomes the competition and ‘backs comedies because we love them, not because an algorithm tells us to’
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NewsAmy Gledhill lands major BBC1 comedy
Comedian teams with Avalon for open relationship series, while Nice One lands comedy with Derry Girls star
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NewsAmandaland leads BBC comedy recommissions
Six titles score third series while Two Doors Down returns after three-year break
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NewsChannel 4 pulls plug on Pushers
Rosie Jones sitcom about disabled people dealing drugs emerged from Blap
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NewsTLC orders Mock the Week summer special
Five-parter will air in June and July to focus on global political and sporting events
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NewsJohnny Vegas, Archie Panjabi, Daniel Mays among Play for Today line-up
Paul Kaye, Phyllis Logan, Joel Fry and Amit Shah also on board as details emerge for second series of 5 revived anthology drama
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