Comedy washout
Freak downpour stops radio pilot
29/04/2002 … A Radio 4 comedy pilot has been abandoned after water gushed through the studio ceiling.
2002 Archives
Mon 29 April 2002
Becks on the box
29/04/2002 … David Beckham is set to appear in a new BBC sitcom.
Sun 28 April 2002
O'Grady's got balls
Bingo sitcom role for cardiac victim
28/04/2002 … Lily Savage creator Paul O'Grady is being lined up for a new BBC comedy, despite his recent heart attack.
A bed of Roses
Los Dos Bros and Kumars triumph in Montreux
28/04/2002 … Channel 4's Los Dos Bros has won the top sitcom prize at the Montreux television festival.
Comedy secrets revealed
28/04/2002 … Television executives are to reveal the secrets of how new comedies are commissioned.
Ali G to tour?
28/04/2002 … Ali G is reportedly planning a live tour of Britain - to end in Staines.
Sat 27 April 2002
O'Grady back home
Savage creator recovering well
27/04/2002 … Lily Savage creator Paul O'Grady has left hospital after treatment for his heart attack.
Old Bill
Connolly's time-travelling role
27/04/2002 … Billy Connolly is to play a time-travelling professor who gets stuck in 14th Century France in his next movie.