BBC puts up its Big Top
22/01/2009 … Filming has begun on the BBC One sitcom Big Top, set in a travelling circus.
2009 Archives
Thu 22 January 2009
Good news, Possums!
22/01/2009 … Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson are to tour the UK with a show that hasn't been performed in 28 years.
UK premiere for In The Loop
Iannucci's satire to open Glasgow Film Festival
22/01/2009 … Armando Iannucci’s In The Loop is to receive its British premiere at the Glasgow Film Festival next month.
Wed 21 January 2009
© BBC Pulling scoops South Bank Award
Sitcom triumphs over Gavin & Stacey
21/01/2009 … Axed BBC Three sitcom Pulling has been named best comedy award at the South Bank Show Awards.
Tue 20 January 2009
Quit while you're ahead
Glenn Reuben on milking a comedy idea too much
20/01/2009 … Ruth Jones has expressed her worry at doing a third series of Gavin and Stacey.
© BBC
Withnail's farmhouse up for sale
20/01/2009 … The remote Lake District farmhouse featured in the classic comedy film Withnail And I is to be sold.