Channel 4 axes radio plans
Station would have been a home to comedy
10/10/2008 … Channel 4 has abandoned its plans to launch a speech radio service, for which it had already commissioned a raft of comedy shows.
2008 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Fri 10 October 2008
Thu 09 October 2008
The 'unknown' selling out the O2
Russell Peters shifts 11,000 tickets in one day
09/10/2008 … Canadian comedian Russell Peters says he sold 11,000 tickets in one day for a gig at London’s O2 Arena, despite little obvious profile in the UK.
League stars' new comedy
09/10/2008 … Work has started on the League Of Gentlemen follow-up project Psychoville.
© Picturehouse Pegg lands book deal
09/10/2008 … Simon Pegg has signed a seven-figure publishing deal to write three books.
Ventriloquist silenced
Achmed puppet 'offends Muslims'
09/10/2008 … An advert for a comedian’s ringtone has been forced off South African TV because it offends Muslims.
Wed 08 October 2008
© BBC United Tates of America
Catherine in talks over US sketch show
08/10/2008 … Catherine Tate’s sketch show could be remade for American audiences.
© NBC Critics savage US Kath & Kim
Remake is 'jaw-droppingly awful'
08/10/2008 … The American remake of hit Australian sitcom Kath and Kim has been savaged by critics as ‘jaw-droppingly awful’.
© FX Izzard's Riches run out
08/10/2008 … Eddie Izzard’s American TV series, The Riches, has been axed.