Comedy – Page 48
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NewsBafta diversity scheme switches focus to actors
Elevate programme for under-represented groups has featured writers and directors in previous years
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NewsExpectation appoints comedy development head
Fulwell 73’s Howard Cohen joins Lateish Show with Mo Gilligan producer
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NewsAvalon scores bumper Amazon stand-up deal
Indie to showcase six of its acts as SVoD aims to steal a march on Netflix heartland
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NewsViacom and Paramount adapt Argentinian comedy for US
Showtime in line for English-language version of 100 Days to Fall in Love
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NewsComedy Central UK buys Darren Star’s Younger
Sex and the City creator’s comedy to make its British debut
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NewsFrankie Boyle to front Two Rivers’ debut BBC network show
Comic to tour Scotland in four-parter from Alan Clements’ fledgling indie
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NewsITVS doubles stake in Ghosts indie
Monumental Pictures joins ranks of studio’s majority-owned companies
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NewsE4 to push hard on comedy ent
Karl Warner looks to end reliance on US imports and rebalance schedule towards originations
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NewsWhizz Kid gets Woke with spoof activist
Indie cements ties with Jonathan Pie writer Andrew Doyle after securing TV rights to his character Titania McGrath
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NewsImelda Staunton to star in BBCS’ Apple comedy
As-yet untitled project comes from emerging writer
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NewsFire engulfs set of HBO space comedy
No one harmed in blaze at Warner Bros’ Leavesden Studios blaze
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NewsSharon Horgan: ‘Abandoning ideas feels like sacrilege’
The Catastrophe writer and Merman co-founder tells Robin Parker about her creative juggling act
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NewsIMDb orders animated series
Frasier’s Kelsey Grammer plays psychiatrist again in Amazon-owned movie database’s first scripted show
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NewsC4 opens up 9pm slot for comedy
Broadcaster issues brief for ’uplifting, escapist comedy with broad appeal’
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NewsBBC Studios takes on Italian kids’ comedy
Producer/distributor picks up rights to hit show New School
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NewsCBBC comedy gets British East Asian showrunner
Channel responds to controversy over Living with the Lams
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NewsSouth Bank Show awards honour Lenny Henry
Comedian and actor wins oustanding achievement award at annual cross-arts ceremony