As covered in the congratulatory documentary that precedes the start of Not Going Out’s 15th series, Lee Mack ’s sitcom was cancelled by the BBC in its third season – only to be brought back via fan ...

Sara Pascoe has revealed that she was dumped from The Great British Sewing Bee against her will. The comic – now 45 – noted that she was ‘replaced with a younger woman’, fellow comedian Sophie Willan, ...

Laura Smyth has pulled her stand-up tour two days before it was due to start, citing ‘recent personal family news’. The comedian was due to kick off her Born Aggy show in Lincoln tomorrow night, but ...

Comedians Miles Jupp, Cariad Lloyd, Lucy Porter and Kiell Smith-Bynoe will be the last to face Richard Osman on House Of Games. The presenter and author steps down from the quiz show he started in ...

Mark Bonnar and Ashley Jensen are to star in a new one-off BBC comedy. Rambling is described as an ‘enchanting, warm and witty’ sitcom about a pair of unlikely travelling companions who enjoy walking ...

Comedians Dom McGovern and Dan Wye are launching a podcast, Flat Earth Nation, in which the pair ‘pick apart whatever nonsense has caught their attention that week’. The weekly video and audio podcast ...

Helen Lederer is launching a new podcast. Recorded live on stage at the Phoenix Arts Club in London, each episode of Eff It, focuses on the point at which her guest realised something was wrong and ...

TWENTY YEARS OF NOT GOING OUT: Lee Mack talks about the creative process behind his long-running sitcom in a documentary that includes classic clips and behind-the-scenes footage from the new series.

Last week, a new sitcom pilot claimed to be the world's first to be produced by AI and written buy a human. The results were as terrible as you might expect. Nonetheless, Chortle as decided to see if ...

Alan Davies’ Radio 4 series Life Without is to return for a second series. Ten more 15-minute programmes have been commissioned, each considering what might happen if an element of the world suddenly ...

There is no money in the pot for those owed money by the collapse of Leicester Comedy Festival, an official statement for the liquidators has revealed.

David Mitchell and Robert Webb don blackface for the sketch, with Webb asking: ‘Are you absolutely sure that this isn’t racist?’ The pair agree to stop the re-enactment at the first sign of racism.