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Sindhu Vee has extended her new tour Swanky - her first UK tour in five years.

I’m not gonna lie. I didn’t have Brett Goldstein down as Future Hollywood Romantic Lead on my stand-up bingo card. But here he is, starring opposite Jennifer Lopez in Office Romance, which ticks all the classic romcom will-they-won’t-they? boxes and then lobs in a few soccer, sorry, football, in-jokes for UK viewers. I wonder who the writers are. Oh, Brett Goldstein and Joe Kelly.

Fresh from her international tour and critically acclaimed Off-Broadway run, produced by Daniel Sloss and presented by Hasan Minhaj, Forbes 30 Under 30 cover star, Abby Govindan (Vogue India, NBC, Daily Beast and LA Times) comes to the UK, including a run at the edinburgh Fringe, with Pushing 30, a biting and irreverent new show about dating, ageing and breaking generational curses.

I've always felt that there was something music hall about Suzi Ruffell. Chaplinesque even. So it made a lot of sense to me that she chose original music hall venue Wilton's to film her latest show The Juggle. She was even dressed a little vaudevillian, in baggy high-waisted trousers, white shirt and tie. As she pointed out, the likes of superstar Vesta Tilly often used to dress as men onstage. Though I'm not sure if Edwardian entertainers had mullets.

In his last show, Ed delved deep into his most personal material, looking at how humour is defined by Tragedy Plus Time. It was also his most successful, named Best Reviewed Show at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2023 and going on to tour for almost two years to sell-out crowds, often returning to a venue to play a second or even third time.

Ivo Graham’s Orange Crush tour has been extended into Autumn 2026.

While taking part in a celebrity ancestry TV show, Jack Braddock, a white actor in a globally popular TV hospital drama series, discovers that he is descended from a brutal 18th century plantation manager called Lachlan Braddock who was in the habit of issuing particularly vicious punishments to his enslaved workers. He also discovers that he is related to a family of Lachlan's Black British descendants.

Comedy producers Chaff have announced the winners of the first Chaff Short Story Competition. The competition opened in April, and after 43 submissions, 32,825 words, and a mid-proofreading discovery of the exact specific uses of the three types of dashes (-, –, and —)... it has finally reached fruition!

Disney+ has greenlit the brand-new comedy drama “DAD” from the award-winning independent entertainment company A24 UK (Such Brave Girls, Dreaming Whilst Black). The Hulu Original scripted series (6x50’) is created and written by Clem Garritty (The Rachel Incident, Life is Strange) and will follow three grown-up siblings who lives are irreversibly changed when their father is accused of a historic murder committed during their childhood.

Michael McIntyre’s Big Show has become one of the BBC’s most successful social media campaigns of 2025 as a record-breaking performance for series nine has been confirmed.