Blackadder row settled
13/08/2003 … The BBC has settled a dispute over the rights to Blackadder that had forced it to drop a radio tribute.
2003 Archives
Wed 13 August 2003
Tue 12 August 2003
Quest for the perfect sitcom
12/08/2003 … The BBC has launched a quest for Britain's best sitcom of all time.
Frank and free
Skinner fronts museum ads for nothing
12/08/2003 … Frank Skinnner is to appear in a series of newspaper ads for the National Football Museum - but he won't be paid a penny.
Cyderdelic land BBC deal
Six-part series for spoof protesters
12/08/2003 … Spoof anti-globalisation warriors Cyderdelic have landed their own BBC3 series.
Loaded with comedy
Magazine launches Lafta awards
12/08/2003 … Loaded magazine has launched its own range of comedy awards.
Mon 11 August 2003
Hot Rhod
11/08/2003 … Welshman Rhod Gilbert has won the BBC Three New Comedy Award at the Edinburgh Fringe.
My American Family
Another sitcom to cross the pond?
11/08/2003 … My Family could be the next British sitcom to cross the Atlantic.
Fri 08 August 2003
Ooray for Aliwood
Baron Cohen 'to star in Spielberg film'
08/08/2003 … Ali G creator Sacha Baron Cohen is to take several roles in a new Steven Spielberg film, according to Press reports today.