13/10/2007 … NINIA BENJAMIN is to be one of the ‘celebrity’ hairdressers on the BBC’s Celebrity Scissorhands starting later this month, alongside Carley Stenson from Hollyoaks,…

Hitch, the sitcom

Smith plans to turn movie into TV show

12/10/2007 … Will Smith is developing a sitcom based on his 2005 movie Hitch.

French fancies

The week's trivia round-up

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Vyle figures

Jennifer Saunders audience slumps

12/10/2007 … Jennifer Saunders’s new sitcom is proving a turn-off for viewers.

Comedy Awards will not be aired

ITV vetoes rival broadcasters

12/10/2007 … ITV have refused to allow the British Comedy Awards to air on any rival channel this year.

It's too PC, and they swear too much

Kielty complains about stand-up

12/10/2007 … Stand-up is being damaged by political correctness and comics who swear too much, Patrick Kielty has complained.

Beam me up, Peggy

Pegg to join Star Trek cast

12/10/2007 … Simon Pegg is to play Scotty in the next Star Trek film.

Book review: Morecambe & Wise Untold

by William Cook

11/10/2007 … As befitting their enduring status as Britain’s most-loved comics of all time, countless biographies have been written about Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise –…