2016 Archives
Tue 20 September 2016
Gazza's joke was crass - but he shouldn't have been fined
Martin Walker says free speech should trump offence
20/09/2016 … Former England footballer Paul Gascoigne has been fined for telling a racist joke on stage.
Mon 19 September 2016
Channel 4 picks more Flowers
Second series for Olivia Colman and Julian Barratt comedy
19/09/2016 … Channel 4 has commissioned a second series of Flowers with Olivia Colman and Julian Barratt.
Is the Edinburgh Fringe racist?
Chris O'Neill says black acts are VERY underrepresented
19/09/2016 … So just how committed to being racist is the Edinburgh Fringe? How hostile, in particular, to black British acts?Clearly this is a preposterous idea.
Christmas quiz for Alan Carr
Channel 4 announces commission
19/09/2016 … Alan Carr is to present a new audience game show for Channel 4.
Racist joke costs Gazza £2,000
Football ace fined for 'racial abuse'
19/09/2016 … Former England footballer Paul Gascoigne has been ordered to £2,000 for telling a joke in dubious taste.
© Elisabeth Toll for LundLund Sarah Kendall, the new face of luxury silverwear
Comic in ad campaign for designer brand Georg Jensen
19/09/2016 … Sarah Kendall is one of the new faces of international design company Georg Jensen.
'Work dried up after Love Thy Neighbour'
Plight of the star of the un-PC sitcom
19/09/2016 … He was the star of one of the biggest sitcoms of the Seventies, seen by up to 17million viewers a week.