Jongleurs venues escape axe
11 nightclubs close, but 'business as usual' for the rest
02/11/2011 … Jongleurs nights held in clubs owned by failed nightclub operator Luminar appear safe for now, after the venues escaped closure by the administrators.
2011 Archives
Wed 02 November 2011
10 O'Clock Live gets a haircut
02/11/2011 … 10 O’Clock Live is to return to Channel 4, but with a shorter format than last series.
Dave Spikey wins short film award
02/11/2011 … A pilot sitcom from Dave Spikey has scooped an award at a new comedy film festival.
Dark days are over
TV wants big, 'laugh-out-loud' comedies
02/11/2011 … Dark and underplayed comedy has fallen out of favour with TV executives, who now demand bolder, brasher shows, a panel of industry experts has agreed.
Ricky Gervais plans Channel 4 comedy
But details wrapped in secrecy
02/11/2011 … Ricky Gervais is about to start work on a secret new Channel 4 project, his producer has revealed.
© BBC Could Human Remains return?
02/11/2011 … Rob Brydon says he wants to reunite with his Human Remains co-creator Julia Davis… possibly for another series of the dark comedy.
XS Malarkey, Nov 1, 2011
02/11/2011 … XS Malarkey, by overwhelming consensus Manchester’s best independent comedy club, has not long settled into its new home in a disused chapel in the studenty Fallowfields…