RIP Michael Hurll
Creator of British Comedy Awards dies at 75
20/09/2012 … Michael Hurll - the man who started the British Comedy Awards – died yesterday at the age of 75.
2012 Archives
Thu 20 September 2012
commonwealth20
20/09/2012 … BILLY CONNOLLY has become an ambassador for the 2014 Commonwealth Games, hosted by Glasgow, and has narrated an animated film telling the story behind the mascot.
Wed 19 September 2012
Derek on demand
Gervais's show bypasses US broadcasters – and goes direct to Netflix
19/09/2012 … Ricky Gervais’s series Derek will be bypassing broadcasters in the States – to go straight to video-on-demand service Netflix.
Ricky Gervais turns app entrepreneur
Like Twitter - but for voice messages
19/09/2012 … Ricky Gervais has launched his own iPhone app – which aims to be like Twitter, but using voice messages.
'He was rebellious without even trying...'
Oliver Lansley on playing Kenny Everett
19/09/2012 … BBC Four is about to add to its considerable catalogue of biopics about dead comedians, with a new 90-minute drama about Kenny Everett.
£3.6m budget for Mrs Brown's movie
...as quiz show is also piloted
19/09/2012 … The movie version of Mrs Brown’s Boys has been given a £3.
Their names escape us...
Robert Ross ponders why some comics get forgotten
19/09/2012 … Over the last 15 years or so I've written lots of books on lots of British comedy from the Carry Ons and Benny Hill, to Monty Python and Last Of The Summer Wine.