When the magic goes...

Freeman to play washed-up conjuror

26/04/2007 … Martin Freeman is to play a has-been magician in a new Channel 4 comedy.

Ben Elton loses his Grip

Viewers desert ITV1 show

26/04/2007 … Ben Elton’s return to TV comedy has been a ratings failure.

26/04/2007 … SARAH SILVERMAN has been announced as the host of the MTV Movie Awards in LA on June 3.

Why not take All Of Me?

Latifah to remake Steve Martin classic

26/04/2007 … Steve Martin’s classic 1984 comedy All Of Me is to be remade as a vehicle for brash hip-hop star Queen Latifah.

By Pryor arrangement

Richard Pryor's widow settles lawsuit

26/04/2007 … Richard Pryor's widow has settled her legal action over the release of 11 of his stand-up recordings.

A new scent-sation

Scratch n sniff for My Name Is Earl

26/04/2007 … My Name Is Earl is to become the first networked US television show to feature a ‘scratch-and-sniff’ episode.

26/04/2007 … THE Allo Allo painting of the Fallen Madonna With The Big Boobies has fetched £4,000 for charity after Shaun Moore, a production designer on the show, put it up…

QI spin-off for R4

Bailey & Munnery record pilot

26/04/2007 … QI creator John Lloyd has recorded a Radio 4 panel show further celebrating the quest for obscure knowledge.