US cable channel orders six episodes of its version of BBC4 hospital comedy

"The joke is therapy, a momentary escape from the hundrum of life or, in some cases, the sheer misery or even horror of it," says Barry Cryer

Jo Brand's Great Wall of Comedy will feature Jo, Rebecca Front and Barry Cryer uncovering secrets about Britain's favourite comedy performers

"I've the artistic ability of a ten-year-old... nothing gets germs on it if you pick it up quickly enough..."

From The Thick of It and Twenty Twelve to Jack Whitehall and Sarah Millican, here's the full list of the runners and riders for this year's gongs

A wordless, cinematic patchwork of archive film and a low-key medical sitcom were the best of BBC4, says Jack Seale in his weekly TV review

The comedian and actress on why The X Factor makes her cringe, Getting On's US remake and her first crush on Blue Peter's John Noakes

Jo Brand, Joanna Scanlan and Vicki Pepperdine's nursing series to be re-imagined in the States

"I don’t really think I can act, so I was gob-smacked. I wasn’t even going to go, but my mum begged me to so she could come too"

Stephen Mangan and Jo Brand also confirmed as presenters, alongside guest panellists including Grace Dent