Safety and Anti-Harassment Comedians’ Charter Launched at Edinburgh Fringe

EXCLUSIVE: Miranda Kwok, developer and executive producer of Fox’s drama series The Cleaning Lady, has been promoted to showrunner alongside executive producer/showrunner Melissa Carter, who will remain in her post under a new overall deal she signed with series producer Warner Bros TV several months ago. The shift from one to two showrunners will take place at the beginning of production on episode 207 of the drama’s upcoming second season.

Margarethe von Trotta To Receive Lifetime Achievement Honor At The European Film Awards German filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta will be honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 35th European Film Awards. von Trotta will receive the honor at a ceremony in Reykjavik, Iceland, on December 10 where she will be an honorary guest. Born in Berlin and raised in Düsseldorf, von Trotta started her career as an actress, in theatre and appeared in films by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Volker Schlöndorff before moving behind the camera in 1978 with The Second Awakening of Christa Klages, her solo debut as a director. In 1981, her film Marianne and Juliane about the “German Sisters” Christiane and Gudrun Ensslin won the Golden Lion in Venice as well as two German Film Awards and an Italian David di Donatello. Previous winners of the European Film Academy’s lifetime achievement award include Agnès Varda and Judi Dench.

A Scots social worker has been left scared to leave the house after she was knocked unconscious and beaten black and blue by strangers at an event at the Edinburgh Fringe.

2 time winner! This is getting Pasta joke.x"I tried to steal spaghetti from the shop but the female gaurd saw me and I couldn't get Pasta".xPosted by Masai Graham on Sunday, August 21, 2022Reacting to his second win, the comedian wrote on Facebook: “2 time winner! This is getting Pasta joke.x”.The runner-up joke for 2022 was from Mark Simmons, which went: “Did you know, if you get pregnant in the Amazon, it’s next day delivery?”Olaf Falafel had two jokes in the Top 10, including: “My attempts to combine nitrous oxide and Oxo cubes made me a laughing stock,” at three, and: “I spent the whole morning building a time machine, so that’s four hours of my life that I’m definitely getting back,” at six.“This is Dave’s first Joke of the Fringe award in three years, and the quality of the submissions has been incredibly strong,” said Dave’s channel director Cherie Cunningham (via The Guardian). “It’s a fantastic top 10 full of newcomers and comedy veterans, and it’s a delight to crown Masai Graham as winner once more.”Other comedians that are on the list include Sophie Duker, Tim Vine and Hannah Fairweather, with women only making up two out of all the entries in total.This year’s Fringe has attracted some controversy after comedian Jerry Sadowitz had his show cancelled.

EXCLUSIVE: Sistas alumna Novi Brown and Terrell Carter (Empire) are set to star in horror thriller Alone In The Dark, a Tubi original movie set for premiere on Fox’s free ad-supported streaming service in October.

A comedian has won an award for the best joke at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with a gag about spaghetti.

An Edinburgh pub has issued a sharp response to a bad review from an unhappy tourist who insulted its staff. The Virginia native stated that their wedding party of 12 had been denied seating at the Rose Street Brewery, Edinburgh Live reports..

An Edinburgh Fringe comedian has hit out a parent who "derailed" his show because they wouldn't leave with their baby who was constantly crying.

Jerry Sadowitz: Not For Anyone, had a warning that it contained “strong language and themes some may find distressing”.Following the cancellation, Sadowitz tweeted: “Did a show last night, 75 mins, thought it went well. Didn’t see any walkouts. Today I’m told my show’s been cancelled.

Scottish comedian Jerry Sadowitz has hit back at his critics with a lengthy response after his Edinburgh Fringe show was cancelled by the famous Pleasance venue amid accusations of racism, homophobia and misogyny.

Paris Hilton has been on vacation in Italy for the past week with husband Carter Reum and we have some great new photos of the couple!

Alan Cumming is currently performing his one man show about legendary bard Robert Burns, and had a very special guest in the audience this week.

Carter director and writer Jung Byung-gil has shared how the format of a streaming release on Netflix influenced the movie’s striking opening scene.The film, which premiered on August 5, begins with a 20-minute-long action sequence – shot in a single take – where the titular Agent Carter (Joo Won) gets into a bloody fistfight while nearly nude in the middle of a public bathhouse.Jung told The Korea Times in a recent interview that the action-packed opening was not what was planned in the initial script, and was informed by the fact that the film was getting a release on a streaming platform. “The film’s initial script had a different opener.

Climate protestors have been 'forcefully' flung out of a political event at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival as Labour Party deputy leader Angela Rayner answered questions.

Lil Wayne is working on his next big project!