DAVE TO TAKE COMICS TO TASK
TV CHANNEL Dave, home of Greg Davies’s show Taskmaster, is the new sponsor of the Edinburgh Comedy Awards. The channel will hand over £20,000 in prizes to the Best Comedy Show, Best Newcomer and Best Panel Show at the event. “Many of our nominees, from James Acaster to Nish Kumar, Sara Pascoe, Romesh Ranganathan and Lucy Beaumont, are stars or panelists on Dave’s comedy strands,” said Nica Burns of the Edinburgh awards. Dave’s winners will be named on August 24.