Comedy
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NewsEasy Tiger, Curio chiefs talk up ‘Brand Australia’
Colin From Accounts, Fisk and The Narrow Road to the Deep North powering a new ‘wave’ of scripted exports, execs suggest
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NewsIn brief: More Dream Car Fixers for UKTV; It Gets Worse cast revealed; C4 Sales launches Partner Lab
Wiser Films returns for six-part series on U&Yesterday
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NewsS4C sets £1.5m factual tender
Content chief Llion Iwan looking for ideas across range of factual genres and forms for 28-hour package
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NewsAvalon’s Taskmaster travels across Europe
Trio of local adaptations means show has now been remade in 13 countries
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NewsBanijay and Fudge Park strike deal for The Inbetweeners revival
New version of the comedy smash could encompass TV series, film or stage production
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NewsBig Talk and South Shore join forces for C4 Christmas drama
Dear Father Christmas (w/t) is a cross-genre commission out of specialist factual and comedy
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NewsRuth Jones and Steve Speirs land friendship comedy for BBC1
Tidy Productions to produce series that will reunite Stella co-stars
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NewsBBC Comedy orders midwife sitcom from Jessica Knappett
Project is the first order from corporation’s scheme to find broad appeal shows
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NewsJon Petrie renews call for big sitcoms
Ellie Kahn BBC comedy boss unpacks the progress of writers’ room scheme and the push to revamp the genre
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NewsDating Horror Stories secures second date with Comedy Central
Mother’s Best Child wins recommission for digital sketch show that looks at courting in the modern era
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NewsSky sets Natasha Lyonne and Matt Berry comedy
Transatlantic series hails from Objective Fiction and Lyonne’s Animal Pictures
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NewsNetflix orders comedy, drama series in Japan
Global streamer also expands anime output as it marks ten-year anniversary in the country
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NewsDavid Jason returns as Granville for Open All Hours retrospective
Studio Crook scores feature-length doc for U&Gold
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NewsIn brief: BeYou speakers; U launch on Sky Q; BBC religion order; Nation’s Dumbest deals
Ash Atalla among those to take to stage at diversity and inclusion-focused event
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NewsRicky Gervais reunites with Netflix for adult animation
After Life creator re-teams with comedy’s stars Tom Basden, Kerry Godliman and Diane Morgan
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NewsDetails emerge for Apple TV+ James Corden and Ruth Jones dramedy
Gavin & Stacey creators prep UK-set The Choir
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NewsBBC Comedy’s Navi Lamba steps up as commissioning editor
Interim head of development Roya Eslami secures role permanently as part of team reshuffle
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NewsBBCS unveils high-end scripted expansion
Comedy chief Josh Cole to lead newly created fiction business with River Pictures execs
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NewsBBC1 returns to Death Valley
BBC Studios Comedy’s crime drama gets second series order with Timothy Spall upped to exec producer
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NewsTina Fey developing UK-set Sky comedy
Four Seasons and 30 Rock creator working up project for pay-TV giant and Comcast sibling Peacock