A Fawlt on the line
08/09/2003 … Comedy fans will be able to watch clips of classic BBC shows, including Fawlty Towers, on their mobile phones.
2003 Archives
Mon 08 September 2003
A Family movie
Animated comedy set for full-length film
08/09/2003 … Cult animated comedy Family Guy is to be made into a full-length movie.
Double the fun
08/09/2003 … Classic jokes, one-liners and sketches from two of Britain's best-loved double acts are to be published in a couple of pocket-sized books next week.
Sun 07 September 2003
First Perrier winner dies
Footlights star who spurned fame
07/09/2003 … One of the winners of the first Perrier award has died after a long illness.
I was Monty's trouble...
Chapman's boozing almost destroyed the Pythons
07/09/2003 … The full story of how Graham Chapman's alcoholism almost destroyed Monty Python is revealed in a new book.
Sat 06 September 2003
Laughter's a drug
Coogan to host West End benefit
06/09/2003 … Steve Coogan is to revive Paul and Pauline Calf for a charity gig in London's West End.
Nothing to laugh about...
Comedy festival comes a cropper
06/09/2003 … A British comedy festival has hit disaster, cancelling most of its shows and losing its headliner to illness.
Sports sitcom relegated
Comedy loses its prime BBC1 slot
06/09/2003 … BBC1 has jettisoned the new sitcom Trevor's World of Sport from its prime-time slot after audiences slumped.