Channel 4 has launched a scheme to fund two half-hour comedy scripts from Northern Ireland. Production companies are now being invited to pitch ideas, with the top two being chosen in May.

Funboys sees friends Callum (Ryan Dylan), Jordan (Rian Lennon) and Lorcan (Lee R James) attempt to navigate through the ...

Channel 4’s 4Skills, Channel 4 Comedy and Northern Ireland Screen are joining forces to fund half-hour comedy scripts, offering a major opportunity for both emerging and established talent to develop ...

it’s clear that women are shaking up the comedy scene in Northern Ireland. “There’s definitely more female comics coming through now than there was when I started,” Teresa Livingstone ...

From the BAFTA-award winning producer of This Country (Simon Mayhew-Archer) and produced by Mayhay Studios, Funboys is a 4x30 ...

Turns out Cyndi Lauper got it half right. If this new comedy from Northern Ireland is anything to go by, boys just wanna have fun too, although the kind of fun Callum (played by Ryan Dylan ...

Stars of new BBC comedy took inspiration from life in small towns in Northern Ireland for their new series Funboys. Set and filmed in the heart of Northern Ireland, the series follows the mishaps of ...

Funboys (BBC Three) began life as a BBC Three Comedy short film in 2023 ...

The new comedy series is set and filmed in the heart of Northern Ireland and follows the mishaps of friends Callum (Ryan Dylan), Jordan (Rian Lennon), and Lorcan (Lee R James) in their small-town ...

The cast of new BBC comedy features rising stars and an award-winning comedy actor who praised the show's pilot. Funboys sees ...