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U&Gold to take viewers on Joe & David’s Magical Sitcom Tour

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 […]

October 14, 2025

Prime Video ads reaching 22m UK viewers monthly

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 […]

October 10, 2025

U to host Clash of the Comics

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 […]

October 9, 2025

Romesh Ranganathan to front Prime Video comedy reality series

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 […]

October 8, 2025

Leonard & Hungry Paul comedy series coming to BBC

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 […]

September 23, 2025

ITV launches anniversary pop-up FAST channel

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 […]

September 22, 2025

U&Gold orders Open All Hours: Inside Out

Sir David Jason will return to the U&Gold channel for Open All Hours: Inside Out – a feature-length retrospective that celebrates one of Britain’s most celebrated sitcoms, and also includes a new short scene, penned by original writer Roy Clarke. In it, Jason once again steps into the role of Granville for a final time, […]

September 12, 2025

Data: SNL tops US YouTube viewing in H1 2025

Digital i, the streaming media measurement company, has released a report titled How is the US using YouTube? which explores what users in the country watched on the service, and how they watched it, during H1 2025. The report includes the latest Digital i measurement of the platform from across the first half of this […]

September 11, 2025

Jimmy Carr YouTube channel surpasses 1.5m subs

Jimmy Carr has become the most subscribed UK comedian on YouTube as his official channel surpasses 1.5 million subscribers. Carr’s YouTube channel has seen significant growth after reaching 1 million subscribers in July 2024. New content strands such as Jimmy Carr’s Heckle Amnesties, featuring original content from his live shows compiled in collaboration with Chambers […]

September 11, 2025

Greg Berman debuts first stand-up special on Mometu

Rising comedian Greg Berman is making waves with the release of his debut stand-up special, Here for a Bit, arriving August 15th exclusively on Mometu, the first-ever stand-up comedy special to premiere on the fast-growing streaming platform. Filmed at the intimate Whitley Theater in Hollywood on October 26th 2024, Berman’s special is a high-wire act […]

August 13, 2025