Join the heard
26/07/2004 … The BBC has launched its annual hunt for new stand-up stars; but this year it will be on radio rather than TV.
2004 Archives
Mon 26 July 2004
Sat 24 July 2004
Anna Crilly – Original Review
24/07/2004 … One of the more inventive comics to have joined the circuit in the past year or two, Crilly bravely presents a genuinely distinctive if utterly odd viewpoint…
Family favourites
24/07/2004 … The cast of Family Guy are to release a CD of songs inspired by the show.
Fri 23 July 2004
Sitcom's not dead
23/07/2004 … The traditional sitcom isn’t dead – but it is critically ill.
Guy flies the Nest
Director quits top Fringe show
23/07/2004 … The acclaimed director of One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest has pulled out of the show just two weeks before it opens at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Thu 22 July 2004
Janey unGodley
22/07/2004 … Scottish stand-up Janey Godley has provoked a storm of protest by encouraging people to ‘punch nuns for Jesus’.
Casting couch
New BBC2 series for Whitehouse
22/07/2004 … Paul Whitehouse has landed a new BBC2 comedy series in which he will play 30 new characters.
Wed 21 July 2004
Just for lags
21/07/2004 … Mark Thomas is to perform to hundreds of inmates at Edinburgh’s Saughton prison when he visits the Fringe next month.