Birds of a Feather co-creator Laurence Marks owes his career to a writers’ group that continues to provide a supportive space to try out...

Stories don’t come much more dramatic than Liverpool’s 2005 Champions League final win in Istanbul, when they came back from 3-0 down to beat...

Despite his diminutive size, Barry Chuckle was one of the titans of children’s television over the last three decades. As one half of the...

BBC Arts’ new Debut scheme, co-produced with talent management and production company Avalon, was created to showcase the work of writers who have never...

A popular comedian turned writer and producer, Hugh Clifford Stuckey made history as the first comedy writer hired by Australian television, for Sydney Tonight,...

Soho Theatre has created an on-demand video service dedicated to streaming its shows by emerging and established comedians. Soho Theatre On Demand is part of...

BBC Arts' decision to launch first-time playwright initiative, Debut, to create work for this year’s Edinburgh Fringe, was something of a PR own goal...

How did you start off in theatre?  I started off at school, working on plays as an actor and writer. Then I got into amateur...

Neil Shand was one of the most successful comedy writers of the past half-century, the joker of choice for successive generations of presenters and...