Office expansion
Even more shows for US version
08/11/2005 … America’s NBC network has ordered 11 more episodes of its version of The Office - eight more than originally rumoured.
2005 Archives
Tue 08 November 2005
'A big hole in comedy'
Have I Got News For You producer dies
08/11/2005 … Comedy producer Harry Thompson, the man who created Have I Got News for You, has died at the age of 45.
Very little Britons
08/11/2005 … Children as young as four are watching Little Britain, even though it is screened after the 9pm watershed.
Mon 07 November 2005
That Extra something
Gervais sets British Comedy Award record
07/11/2005 … Ricky Gervais’s Extras has landed a record five nominations for this year’s British Comedy Awards.
It's unheard of...
How Little Britain was made on a whim
07/11/2005 … The BBC executive who gave Little Britain its big TV break has admitted he never heard the show before commissioning it.
On the road again
07/11/2005 … Michael Palin has revealed that he's planning another travel series – but this time intends to stay closer to home.
Sun 06 November 2005
Mission: Improbable
Tom Cruise signs up for Extras
06/11/2005 … Tom Cruise will appear in the next series of Extras, Ricky Gervais has confirmed.
Sat 05 November 2005
Ronaway winners
Two Ronnies: 'greatest comedy duo'
05/11/2005 … The Two Ronnies have been voted the greatest ever comedy duo – beating Morecambe and Wise and Laurel and Hardy into second and third place.