Gervais scoops 8th Bafta

At the US British Comedy Awards

03/05/2008 … Ricky Gervais has become the first person to win eight Baftas, after scooping a new award in Los Angeles for Extras.

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03/05/2008 … MY FAMILY star Kris Marshall has been released from hospital less than a week after being run over by a car, and he expects to be back a work next week.

Syal's new sitcom

First comedy role since The Kumars

02/05/2008 … Meera Syal is to star in a new BBC Two sitcom, her first comedy role since The Kumars At No 42.

'Nobody will want to be the next Ricky fucking Gervais'

Weekly trivia file

02/05/2008 … Ah, the start of May and in these long spring days, our thoughts turn naturally enough to… the office Christmas party.

'It's all worked out very well... I'd been in a real rut'

James Randall interviews Stewart Lee

02/05/2008 … How's the tour been going? Its been going really well, I gave up stand up for a few years, then I started again.

Rich goes wild about the West

New BBC4 film from Rich Hall

02/05/2008 … Perrier-winning stand-up Rich Hall is making a 90-minute film about movie Westerns for BBC Four.

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02/05/2008 … ACTRESS Julie Ege – the former Miss Norway who appeared as a sexy bombshell in a string of Seventies British comedies including Up Pompeii, The Magnificent Seven…

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Stewart Lee lands BBC2 series

02/05/2008 … Stewart Lee has landed a six-part stand-up series for BBC Two.