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Cult classic sitcom Green Wing has been resurrected as a podcast with the original cast and creative team.

Back in 2004, fresh from the success of sketch show Smack The Pony, writer Victoria Pile created Green Wing, a sitcom set in a hospital.

With an ensemble cast that included Tamsin Greig and Stephen Mangan – who would later reunite to star opposite Matt LeBlanc in Episodes – the comedy is helped enormously by committed clowning the cast, particularly Mark Heap and Michelle Gomez. The show ran for two series from 2004 to 2006 and, in a move more in common with American sitcoms, had a large pool of writers.

After the show ended, the same creative team made the terrific University comedy Campus in 2009, which despite only running for one series is well worth tracking down, especially for the tour de force performance from Andy Nyman as megalomaniacal monster and Vice Chancellor Jonty De Wolfe.

The Beeb is amping up the laughs. The BBC has commissioned three new comedy TV programs. BBC One has ordered the Porridge TV show revival from creators Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais. The original prison-set series, starring Ronnie Barker and Richard Beckinsale, ran on BBC One from 1974 to 1977. The Porridge reboot stars Kevin Bishop as Nigel ‘Fletch’ Fletcher, grandson of Barker’s iconic Norman Stanley Fletcher.BBC Two ordered the Motherland TV series, written by Graham Linehan and Sharon Horgan, Helen Linehan, and Holly Walsh, the show features the the trials and traumas of motherhood. The pilot, which aired as part of The BBC's "Landmark Sitcom Season," starred Anna Maxwell Martin, Lucy Punch, Diane Morgan, Paul Ready, Margaret Cabourn-Smith, and Oliver Chris.Meanwhile, BBC Three has commissions the first season of the A Brief History of Tim TV show,...

Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson who was nominated for Stonewall's Bigot of the Year award in 2007 for refusing to apologize for derogatory gay jibes he uttered on his primetime TV show, has done it again. An exchange with former Labour spin doctor Alastair Campbell, which was cut from the broadcast version of the show, has come to light after Campbell blogged about the experience.

Jeremy Clarkson

"I cannot remember how the subject of homosexuality came up, but I said at one point that he wasn't very sound on gay rights … Oh yes I am, he said, adding, to more laughter from the largely adoring crowd 'I demand the right not to be bummed.'

"I had the immediate thought that this was unlikely to be broadcast at 8 Pm on a Sunday, with "Songs of Praise" still ringing in some ears, but nonetheless chipped in that I suspected he was worried that he might like it.