Car Share revs up for new series
The show, which stars Peter Kay and Sian Gibson as colleagues brought together by a company car share scheme, will return in 2017.
Film starring Newcastle comic wins top Cannes award
Fellow Geordie comic Gavin Webster also appears in the film, which was shot in Newcastle.
Glee at V as festival announce comedy lineup
The festival will take place at Hylands Park, Chelmsford and Weston Park, Staffordshire between 20 – 21 August 2016.
BBC Three gets more Witless
Written by Lloyd Woolf and Joe Tucker, the first series saw unwitting Leanne and uptight Rhona given new identities and left to fend for themselves in a grubby flat in Swindon.
Dane Baptiste announces North East tour stop
Baptiste will perform his critically-acclaimed show Reasonable Doubts at the Teesdale venue on Saturday 26 November 2016; the only North East date so far on his first nationwide tour.
Rhys James to appear in Newcastle ahead of Mock the Week debut
James, a “sickeningly talented young stand up” (Time Out), will preview his brand new show at the Waterloo Square venue on Wednesday 1 June 2016, shortly before his debut appearance on BBC Two’s Mock the Week airs.
Chris Cross conjures up the cash
Newcastle magician and comic Chris Cross has raised over £1200 for Brain Tumour Research in honour of Paul Daniels. Cross held a sold-out charity gala on Newcastle’s Quayside on Thursday which raised £1,235 for the organisation. Daniels, from Middlesborough, passed away in March, having been diagnosed with a brain tumour only a month before. The […]
Double the laughs this weekend in Barnard Castle
Rhys James and Lloyd Griffith will preview their new Edinburgh shows at The Witham, Barnard Castle on Saturday 21 May 2016.