The Prince Harry of the TV Royal Family.” That is how BBC comedy boss Jon Petrie characterized his genre competing with the ...

Next year, Netflix will celebrate its 30th birthday. That’s right, somehow the VOD subscription site has been around for almost three decades. Of course, the world wasn’t streaming millions of hours’ ...

For decades, British comedy has been closely tied to terrestrial television - think primetime slots on the BBC or Channel 4 shaping the nation's sense of humour. But that landscape has shifted.

The BBC is piloting six new comedies as short films, including an animated sitcom starring Tom Davis, Roisin Conaty and Joe Wilkinson, British Comedy Guide can exclusively reveal. Launching on BBC ...

In reality, there was so much cynicism shared by British viewers online in the run up to Sky One’s first episode on Saturday that it felt like it needed Danny Boyle Opening Ceremony level of ...

After a year of development, the British version of Saturday Night Live has finally revealed its cast of U.K. comics—so let's check them out. Clockwise from top-left: George Fouracres, Al Nash, Hammed ...

You need to learn about the latest British show making its way across the pond to the United States. Your time starts now. That Anglophile sensation is "Taskmaster," a British comedy panel show in ...

Disney+ is eyeing more comedy series out of the UK, global originals chief Eric Schrier said this morning. The President of Disney TV Studios and Global Original Television Strategy at Disney ...

For fans of “Peep Show” and Sharon Horgan, this warped series about a dysfunctional family is in some ways a satire of the trauma comedy. By Margaret Lyons The blistering British comedy “Such Brave ...

I did not have high expectations for "The Ballad of Wallis Island", said Danny Leigh in the Financial Times. Developed from a 2007 short film by its co-stars, poet-comedian Tim Key and his writing ...