UTAS UK Productions, which is part of Universal Studio Group, and Broadway Video have announced three key appointments to the creative team powering Saturday Night Live UK, which is coming to Sky and NOW in 2026. James Longman will serve as Lead Producer, Liz Clare joins as Director and Daran Jonno Johnson takes on the […]
Audible, the specialist in spoken-word entertainment, has announced a new Audible Original podcast, Katherine Ryan’s Christmas Intervention, presented by the comedian alongside her family in a series that is part seasonal survival guide, part family therapy session. In this new Audible Original podcast, Ryan sits down with her husband Bobby and daughter Violet to dig […]
Samsung TV Plus and V10 Entertainment, a private equity-backed media company, have partnered to launch the first dedicated FAST channel for America’s Funniest Home Videos hosted by Alfonso Ribeiro, set to debut in the US later this year. The AFV with Alfonso Ribeiro channel on Samsung TV Plus will showcase more than 200 episodes from […]
Novocomedy, a specialist in short, funny content, has announced a technology partnership with Tessact, an enterprise‑grade AI platform for modern media supply chains, to speed up how the company ingests, enriches and versions its dialogue‑free comedy for every window–from 10–30 second vertical clips to 11’/22′ episodes and compilation specials. “Novocomedy’s promise is simple: make people […]
Comedians, writers, performers and podcasters Joe Wilkinson and David Earl will bring their camaraderie and love of comedy to U&Gold for Joe & David’s Magical Sitcom Tour (3×60’). Part travelogue, part buddy comedy and part retrospective, in Joe & David’s Magical Sitcom Tour Wilkinson and Earl will explore their love of classic British sitcoms, with […]
At the 2025 Amazon Upfront UK event, senior executives from Amazon Ads, Prime Video and Amazon MGM Studios were joined on stage by celebrities and actors to showcase Amazon’s entertainment portfolio and highlight its advertising solutions. During the presentation, Amazon announced that Prime Video has grown its average monthly ad-supported reach to more than 22 […]
Clash of the Comics, the award-winning live event that sees some of the biggest names in comedy battling against each other and some of the UK’s top professional wrestlers, will air on British TV for the first time in Novmeber on U and U&Dave as a special produced by Expectation (1×160’). Having previously appeared at […]
Prime Video has announced it will launch a new comedy reality series Would You Rather: Decide to Survive, hosted by comedian Romesh Ranganathan. The series will be available exclusively on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide in 2026. Would You Rather… be invisible or be able to fly? Fight 1 giant […]
A new six-part comedy drama series, Leonard and Hungry Paul, narrated by Julia Roberts, is set to drop as a box set on iPlayer in the week commencing October 12th, and will premiere on BBC Two the following week. Leonard & Hungry Paul follows two board-gaming friends in their thirties. Leonard, a ghost writer of […]
ITVX is opening up a world of archive ITV footage for viewers to revel in to mark ITV’s 70th anniversary – including previously unseen versions of enduring entertainment shows, classic comedy, new archive content and hours of full-length ITV news coverage of historic news events. From now until the end of the year, viewers seeking […]