British comedian Chris Turner ’s freestyle rapping has secured him second place in this year’s America’s Got Talent. Singer Jessica Sanchez – who had previously competed in the first season when she ...

Here’s the first trailer and for the BBC‘s romantic comedy-drama Film Club. The series has been co-created by Daddy Issues, Sex Education and The White Lotus star Aimee Lou Wood. She also plays Evie, ...

Natalie Casey, who Carol Groves in Hollyoaks and Donna Henshaw in Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, plays the Sheriff of Nottingham with Mateo Oxley, who was recently Richard Hannay in The 39 ...

Nicola Mantalios has won this year’s Funny Women stage award in the guise of her alter-ego Zoe. The Newcastle-based comic was previously a finalist in the Laughing Horse and the So You Think You’re ...

Ruth Jones and Steve Speirs are to celebrate the town of Porthcawl in the second BBC Wales tribute. The new programme will follow the friends as they tour Ruth’s hometown - 20 miles from Barry, where ...

Former Perrier winner Will Adamsdale is to tour a new show about writing a sitcom with Chat GPT. Entitled AI, AI, Oh…, it will play a series of dates in the South West of England this autumn.

‘He must’ve really struggled in that hospital, being turned this way and that, and covered with what appeared to be hundreds of tubes. No one should have to go like that, unable to breathe and denied ...

Work is under way on a film about the life of Caroline Aherne. Titled Half The World Away – in honour of the Oasis song that served as The Royle Family’s theme tune – the biopic has already been ...

Paul Merton is to go inside the driver’s cab of some of the world’s most famous trains in a six-part series for Channel 4. The comic will go to Germany, France, Switzerland, Wales, northern England ...

The Live Comedy Association has today launched a major new fund aimed to support the grassroots UK live comedy sector. Stand Up And Give is an umbrella campaign to raise money to support comedians, ...

Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker. And this week's questions are all about the comedy of ...

Here is Mackenzie Crook from the set of his new BBC comedy Small Prophets. The Detectorists creator wrote and directs the series, which is described as combining the 'magical and the mundane’ in a ...