Comedian Amy Matthews is joining EastEnders. The stand-up plays a character called Rita, who will be seen chatting with Jack Branning (Scott Maslen) in The Queen Vic, flirtatiousl ...

Otherwise we were all responding or reacting to something, but we owned this.’ Syal agreed: ‘We've seen ourselves represented in so many bad ways, literally with blackface and the head waggling and ...

Performers’ union Equity says it is helping comedians hit by the financial difficulties engulfing the Leicester Comedy Festival. The union says it has successfully secured payment for three comedians ...

The next series of Colin From Accounts will be the last, creators Harriet Dyer and Patrick Brammall have announced. The pair, a real-life couple who also star in the romcom, broke the news in a video ...

Matt Lucas is to play Fagin in the West End revival of Oliver! this autumn. Lucas will take the role for six weeks from September 22 to November 1, while Simon Lipkin, who currently plays Fagin, takes ...

It will surely come as no surprise for anyone heading to the Fringe next month, but Edinburgh has been named the most expensive place in Europe to stay this summer. The median cost of a night in a ...

The World Meteorological Association gathered one final time today to once again warn humanity about ever-increasing global temperatures. The world experts have decided to finally call it a day after ...