14/10/2007 … FRANKIE BOYLE has announced three dates in London's West End, playing the Cambridge Theatre on November 18 and December 9 and 16.

I want my Jongleurs back

Club founder's £40m bid

14/10/2007 … Jongleurs founder Maria Kempinska says she is ready to buy back the club chain from owners Regent Inns.

13/10/2007 … NINIA BENJAMIN is to be one of the ‘celebrity’ hairdressers on the BBC’s Celebrity Scissorhands starting later this month, alongside Carley Stenson from Hollyoaks,…

Hitch, the sitcom

Smith plans to turn movie into TV show

12/10/2007 … Will Smith is developing a sitcom based on his 2005 movie Hitch.

French fancies

The week's trivia round-up

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Vyle figures

Jennifer Saunders audience slumps

12/10/2007 … Jennifer Saunders’s new sitcom is proving a turn-off for viewers.

Comedy Awards will not be aired

ITV vetoes rival broadcasters

12/10/2007 … ITV have refused to allow the British Comedy Awards to air on any rival channel this year.

It's too PC, and they swear too much

Kielty complains about stand-up

12/10/2007 … Stand-up is being damaged by political correctness and comics who swear too much, Patrick Kielty has complained.