Amnesty plans new benefit
...25 years after Secret Policeman
29/10/2004 … Amnesty is planning another huge comedy benefit show for next year.
2004 Archives
Fri 29 October 2004
The PC PCs
Phoenix Nights star in new sitcom
29/10/2004 … Phoenix Nights star Neil Fitzmaurice is to star in a new police comedy for BBC3.
Out of this world
Hitchhikers attracts 1m online
29/10/2004 … A million people have heard the new Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy radio series over the internet, making the BBC’s most popular online show.
Thu 28 October 2004
Somebody's cross...
Cyderdelic rapped for blasphemy
28/10/2004 … Comedy group Cyderdelic have been censured by BBC governors following complaints their show was blasphemous.
Little Britain is too much
Sketches to be censored for BBC1
28/10/2004 … The most offensive sketches in Little Britain are to be censored when the show transfers to BBC1 later this year.
Hail King Andrew
Maxwell crowned King Of Comedy
28/10/2004 … Andrew Maxwell has been crowned King Of Comedy in the E4 reality show.
Wed 27 October 2004
Fawlty connection
Cleese launches his own website
27/10/2004 … John Cleese has celebrated his 65th birthday today – by launching his own website.
ITV's date with improv
27/10/2004 … ITV is to film a pilot of a new improvised romantic comedy show, which could see the spontaneous form return to TV for the first time in six years.