ITV brings back variety
13/08/2008 … ITV1 is to showcase stand-ups as part of a new flagship variety show.
2008 Archives
Wed 13 August 2008
Kylie12
13/08/2008 … KYLIE and Danni Minogue have recorded a duet versio of Abba's The Winner Takes It All for new BBC2 sitcom Beautiful People, an adaptation of the memoirs of fashionista…
© BBC Good Life writer dies
13/08/2008 … Writer John Esmonde, co-creator of The Good Life, has died at the age of 71.
Tue 12 August 2008
© C4 America finally gets IT
12/08/2008 … The original British series of The IT Crowd, Modern Toss and Look Around You have all been sold to America.
Godley named funniest woman
12/08/2008 … Janey Godley has been named the funniest woman on the Fringe, winning £1,000 in the process.
Adapt or die
Steve Day on how the credit crunch could hit comedy
12/08/2008 … I'm in the Assembly Rooms cafe, waiting to meet Kate, wife of fellow comic Bill Bruce, to give back the keys to their lovely Glasgow flat that they so kindly let…
© DreamWorks Call to ban Stiller's comedy
Film upsets the mentally disabled
12/08/2008 … Campaigners are calling for a boycott of Ben Stiller's latest comedy movie Tropic Thunder because it uses ‘retard’ as a joke insult.